This review of the literature on the neuropsychology of autism identifies several consistent findings, such as: existence of neuropsychological impairments in a wide range of domains; large individual differences in certain neuropsychological domains; greater difficulty with tasks involving social information; possible association of the amygdala…

Explores notions of success in second language acquisition in terms of social interaction and linguistic inventory. two English-speaking boys, ages 5 and 7 acquired German or one year in an immersion context. Data show that both boys developed the ability to participate successfully in all aspects of the interaction. Suggests linguistic…

Educators must find ways to create a climate of cooperation in order to teach students the academic, social, and emotional skills they need to function successfully. Classroom meetings serve as an excellent vehicle for teaching this type of cooperation. Explores research on the effectiveness of classroom meetings, the important components of these…

Examines the association between quality of mother-child interaction assessed at kindergarten entry and children's social and academic outcomes in middle school. Results indicate that positive quality of mother-child interaction accounted for unique variance in social and academic success in early adolescence over and above the contribution of…

Explores potential predictors of unforgiveness and forgiveness for a specific offense in 91 undergraduates. Positive feelings of forgiveness were uniquely predicted by dispositional forgivingness and by the participants' deliberate attempt to forgive the offense. Different patterns of predictors suggest that unforgiveness and forgiveness are not…

Content analysis of 1,000 job ads in marketing, management, finance, and human resource management showed that ads were significantly more likely to ask for specific personal skills relevant to the job category. A survey of 170 companies that placed the ads indicated their motives for stipulating personal skills; two-thirds conducted formal job…

Presents facts about selective mutism, an anxiety disorder believed to be caused by low levels of serotonin in the brain, discussing its effects on school children, explaining how to get the necessary help (e.g., talking to health professionals and becoming educated about the disorder), and noting what parents can do (e.g., help raise the child's…

Examines the syntactic, semantic, and sociolinguistic features of a corpus of 183 apologies in New Zealand English, within the context of an interaction model with 2 intersecting dimensions, affective and referential meaning, attempting to relate the relative "weightiness" of the offense to features of the apology. (53 references)…

Examined relationships among dimensions of former spouse relationship and children's social competence postseparation and explored impact of community-based, educational prevention program for divorcing parents on quality of former spouse relationship. Findings from 113 program participants and 80 separated and divorcing nonparticipants revealed…

The hidden curriculum of industrial education is the culture of the industrial workplace. Socialization into unions and accepted workplace behaviors are a product of racial, class-bound, and gendered assumptions in a male culture of work and must be taken into account by industrial educators. (SK)

Presents Comprehensive Employment Preparation program, an intervention designed to help youth and young adults with developmental disabilities acquire skills necessary to prepare them for effective functioning as self-sustaining, working members of society. Delineates such community-based strategies as vocational enrichment programs; pursuing,…

Examines various empirically proven assessment and intervention methods that can be used to remediate children's social skills problems and illustrates the utilization of these methods in a case study. Claims that combining manipulation of antecedent/consequent events with modeling or coaching procedures constituted effective multimethod approach…

Through open-ended interviews with seven managers of the Minnesota Board for Vocational-Technical Education, a study found that the same qualities needed for success in business appear critical to outstanding performance as a vocational administrator. Human relations skills are important although management style per se is not. (JOW)

The purposes of this study were to describe elementary school children's rough-and-tumble play vis-a-vis aggression and provide exploratory data on the functional significance of rough-and-tumble play. Results suggest that the incidence of rough-and-tumble play varied according to sex and playground location. (PCB)

Observed 62 children, 4- and 5-years-old, to determine the relation between negotiation and enactment in social pretend play and to indices of social acceptance and cognition. Negotiation and enactment were positively correlated and predicted peer social acceptance. Enactment predicted peer acceptance independent of negotiation. (RJC)