Provided in the second of two articles is further evidence of the validity of the author's sequence of tactual discrimination tasks for partial development of Optacon use readiness in young blind children. (IM)

The author takes the position that the use of a diagnostic-remedial model to provide special education services to the "mildly handicapped" is often inappropriate. (Author)

Teaching faculty in 10 entry-level professional fields reported varying amounts of time devoted to teaching, research, consulting, and professional practice but did not differ in time devoted to administration. Different professional fields may be characterized by group climates that influence or reinforce certain faculty roles. (Author/MLW)

Describes two studies investigating the development of recursive thinking in 60 Dutch children five, seven, and nine years of age. The first study replicated earlier research employing a verbal production procedure. The second study used verbal comprehension procedures and concluded that development appears two years earlier than indicated by the…

The development and application of a computer adventure game simulating the college experience for college-bound students are described. The game is intended to provide both a realistic role preview for prospective students and experience with computer interaction. (Author/MSE)

Investigated the relationship between the accuracy of counselor perceptions of client work values and client satisfaction with service received. Participants were recruited from five rehabilitation workshops. Counselor and client perceptions of client work values were significantly different and a significant relationship existed between the…

Uses two self-report questionnaires in reporting that perceptions of Korean youth regarding parental control correlate positively with perceived parental warmth and low neglect. Findings contrast with studies on North American youth. Cultural variables contributing to the differences in the patterns of correlation among the Korean versus American…

This study investigated the ways in which the gender of group leader and client might affect treatment outcome with young adolescents. Results revealed gender differences between male and female adolescents on outcome measures, no difference on outcome due to leader gender, and one interaction effect on a measure of social skills. (Author/LMO)

Investigation of the perception and production of English voiceless fricatives in normally developing monolingual 3- to 5-year-olds (N=12) partially supported the hypothesis that certain sound substitutions by older children are perceptually based substitutions, typified by poor discrimination, while others are phonetic substitutions--phonemic…

Describes experiments and studies which investigated perception and image interpretation on different cognitive levels. Subjects were asked to name, describe, index, and assess image contents; write legends; create images; complete stories; illustrate stories; and produce informative materials. Results confirmed the theory of a dual stage…

Continuous discourse tracking, when used as a test of the effectiveness of aural rehabilitation strategies, has numerous uncontrolled variables related to the sender, the receiver, the text materials, and repeated presentations. Tracking is inappropriate for across-subject designs, and acceptable for within-subject test designs only when stringent…

The relationship between speech perception and speech production was investigated, by comparing five six and seven-year-old Dutch children who misarticulated the final consonant cluster /-ts/ with three control groups. Results indicate that the poorer the articulation proficiency of a group, the more variability there was in both production and…

Parents (n=134) with hearing-impaired children reported their perceptions of their children's misbehavior. Parents perceiving themselves to be successful in handling misbehavior reported a significantly lower incidence of misbehavior than did "unsuccessful" parents. "Successful" parents most often chose a disciplinary technique involving…

Socialization difficulties encountered by a particular learning disabled adolescent may be related to the type of underlying learning disability. Two subtypes of learning disability are discussed (language disorders and disturbed visual spatial functions) along with implications for problems in development of social skills and for effective…

Seventeen visually impaired children, aged 7-11 years, were compared with sighted children on a test of facial recognition and a test of expression identification. The visually impaired children were less able to recognize faces successfully but showed no disadvantage in discerning facial expressions such as happiness, anger, surprise, or fear.…