Low positive correlation between sentence familiarity and lipreading values was found when deaf college students were used to determine quantitative sentence familiarity and lipreading values of the John Tracy Clinic Filmed Test of Lipreading. (Author/KW)

The field of gifted and talented research is in serious need of scientific work of this calibre, as distinct from theories, models and anecdotes. The author states that there is no evidence either that some individuals have an innate head start to reach an elite level, or that DNA limits achievement in healthy individuals. Ericsson's earlier work…

Compared were the free recall performances of 30 learning disabled (LD) and 30 normal children (all in elementary grades) when the level of difficulty and/or the material organization were varied. (Author/DB)

Hair samples of 61 autistic children and 15 normal children were analyzed and found to have no significant difference in amino acid content. (CL)

The selected bibliography of research on learning disabilities contains approximately 80 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of July, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the criteria of…

Three 24 member groups of retarded adolescents, chronological age-matched adolescents, and mental age-matched children were assessed in their ability to match the repetition rate of 10-second stimulus sequences presented under four modality switching conditions (unimodal, trimodal double, trimodal single periodic, and trimodal single aperiodic),…

Influence of a behavioral model upon hearing impaired children's behavior and judgments was investigated and found to be significant: 30 of the 32 subjects imitated the behavior of the model to whom he had been exposed. (KW)