Following 14 weeks of therapy conducted by volunteer teachers, experimental subjects showed a statistically significant rise in assertiveness, particularly with their peers. The correlation between the teacher's role performance and degree of child's improvement suggests that this technique was instrumental in change. (Author/CJ)

Seven situations are suggested for role playing exercises, with facial and physical movement emphasized as well as oral skill development. Possibilities for improvisation, props, variations, and linguistic objectives are outlined for each situation. (MSE)

British drama instructor discusses how drama provides a sense of immediacy to subjects or stories and to the discovery process of learning. She also discusses how the dialectic aspects of drama aids in children's language development. (HTH)

Most child care centers deprive children of what they need most to grow--opportunities to play, interact freely, experiment, and discover who they are. (Author)

The gender-linked character of descriptive terms recurrent in studies reporting gender differences in children's play is examined. It is suggested that such terms are linked to gender as a socially determined classification, influencing observation and interpretation of gender-related behaviors. (Author/GK)

Broadens the search for correlates of locus of control orientation by examining the observable behaviors of mothers and their seven- to eight-year-old children in a work task that elicited differential dependency responses. (RH)

Various techniques are described for which a teacher might use dramatics in a classroom situation. Questions which might be asked by the classroom teacher include: purpose and use of drama in the classroom; development of skills; classroom space problems; and time. (JN)

The Children's Developmental Play Program at Jacksonville State University (Alabama) encourages fine and gross motor skills in developmentally disabled children while simultaneously improving self-concept and optimizing risk taking behaviors. (SB)

The hearing impaired children demonstrated significantly more noninteractive constructive activities and less cooperative and dramatic activities than their normally hearing peers. (Author)

In this study previously unacquainted two-year-olds formed a group structure coincident with a stabilization of social relations. The children's formation of a dominance hierarchy for object conflicts, reflected in part by an increasing group structural rigidity, was marked by a decrease in the likelihood of resistance to aggression. (Author/DB)

The article describes a 10-stage symbolic play language scale and relates the language concepts and structures associated with each developmental play stage. (PHR)

Describes the need for exercises which divert the enormous amount of energy in elementary and junior high school children. Lessons which include manual activity and opportunity to laugh divert the energy into active learning of the language. New material should be presented in various ways to avoid boredom. (PJM)