Studies the difference in language used in children's television shows and in children's books

A 40-month-old child with severely retarded speech development was studied in the home in order to investigate speech development as a function of levels of naturally occurring parental stimulation. (Authors/MB)

Earlier version of this article was presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, December 28, 1968. (VM)

Presented, in part, at the Kennedy Foundation Scientific Symposium on Mental Retardation (Chicago, April 29, 1968). (RJ)

Using the ability to understand five test structure sentences as a criteria of English comprehension, the author concludes that children pass through five specific stages of language development. The rapidity with which this development occurs is determined by Socioeconomic Status and reading interests of parent and child. (AF)

A teacher initiates and successfully develops a new method for increasing the vocabulary of eighth grade students. The new method abandons rote-memory techniques for a method which allows the students to choose the words they will learn while participating in the teaching of the new vocabulary. (LF)

Reviews research on various physical factors related to learning and reading disabilities, also providing a 58-item bibliography. (VJ)

Purpose of the essay is to trace some of the educational implications of Hayakawa's statement, The individual object or event we are naming...has no name and belongs to no class until we put it into one." (Author/MB)

Depicts the preresearch activities in the completed Project II, one of the Phase One projects in the Targeted Research and Development Program in Reading (TRDPR) sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education. (MB)