This article describes the major areas of adjustment faced by physically handicapped students and suggests implications for a developmental restaging program in the schools. (MM)

The study evaluated the effectiveness of three instructional methods in promoting speech sound discrimination and reading achievement over a 3-year period. (Author)

This research was an attempt to identify teaching style preferences that were perceived to be effective in promoting learning among college students. Results indicated the nature in five distinct teaching styles. Effective teaching was shown to have implications in areas of student evaluation of teaching and research in teacher effectiveness.…

How well students learn depends upon the schools' attitude towards them. The author presents strategies which school attendance officers can use in dealing with students. (Author/HLM)

This study compares the main sources of student perceptions of a counselor's role, among community college students and university students for the most part, these sources were consistent across college environments and sexes. (Author)

This paper outlines perceptual consequences of loss of binocular vision; complicating factors in monocular impairment such as age at onset and degree of residual vision; empirical evidence of the severity of monocular impairments, in terms of driving accidents and rehabilitation prospects; and the impairment's economic, psychological, and social…

Adult stutterers (n=75) and nonstutterers (n=81) rated themselves on communication attitudes involving behavioral, affective, and cognitive components. The findings raise issues regarding stutterers' avoidances, attitude multidimensionality in the perceptions of speaking situations, differences in stutterers and nonstutterers' belief systems, and…

The recognition performance for segmental stimuli was compared when presented through a single-channel tactile device and through a 24-channel vocoder. Both consonant and vowel stimuli were tested under visual only, tactile only, and visual/tactile conditions. Results indicated no significant performance differences for the 12 artificially…

Investigated the influence of a child with sickle-cell anemia on parental affiliation, parent-child relationships, and parents' perception of their child's behavior. In the sickle-cell group, parents' interpersonal relationship suffered; parent-child relationship and child behavior correlated significantly; and single-parent families estimated…

It is suggested that most successful creators are polymaths, and that polymathy is essential to their creativity. This necessitates reintegrating the curriculum, emphasizing the arts and literature as equal to the sciences. The development of a common body of "tools of thought" applicable to a range of disciplines is proposed. (Author/KM)

Teachers' social origins influence their reactions to students. Low-status and minority students experience difficulties in the classrooms of high-status teachers. Outcomes of these relationships are that the students are seen as less mature and less is expected of them. A model of teacher-pupil background congruence is proposed. (Author/VM)

Presents a geometry exercise which is designed to help students create three-dimensional clay figures, think in three dimensions, and develop vocabulary. Reproducible worksheets are included. (PK)

Summarizes the stereotypes of Plains Indians and then surveys the realities of that culture, emphasizing the physical and spiritual role of the horse. Reviews two children's books by writer-artist Paul Goble, pointing out their accurate depiction of the material and spiritual nature of the traditional Plains Indian culture. (JHZ)

The quality of the student-faculty interaction in academic advising is a major contributing variable to institutional holding power. Students were surveyed for the type of relationship that was most productive, qualitative and satisfying for them. The student development theory in advising was explored. (MLW)

Reviews the neural modeling principles of learning, perception, cognition, and motor control, discusses their applications to sensory-motor problem solving, and explores possible relationships between that pattern of problem solving and aspects of higher order formal operational problem solving. Cites implications for science education. (ML)