Parents of children with disabilities must maintain a fine balance between protecting their child from thoughtless cruelty and discrimination and teaching their child to deal with such actions. Parents should quickly end any cruel actions toward the child, be open about the disability's nature, and talk to parents of the child's peers. (CB)

Investigates the uniqueness and distinguishability of individual drawing styles among school-age children to determine whether they have individual artistic styles that go unnoticed. Some support for individual graphic artistic style was provided. Aspects of stylistic distinction are discussed, and recommendations for classroom drawing instruction…

Examined the role of cognitive mediators in identifying differences in aggression of incarcerated and nonincarcerated male and female adolescents. Found hostile-aggressive individuals more likely to hold beliefs supporting aggression and to be unconcerned about the consequences of violent actions. (SKC)

Many learning disabled adolescent students can have a successful college experience if a school follows appropriate guidelines for counseling such students. The guidelines include establishing objective criteria for students' college abilities and needs, continuing to evaluate learning problems, and researching available college programs. (CJH)

The study examined the stability of vowel articulation for the final vowel in a vowel-consonant-vowel structure by five profoundly deaf and six nonhearing impaired male adults. All deaf subjects showed considerable intra- and interindividual variability. Variability was greatest for center formant frequencies of F1 measured by a Signal Analyzing…

Presents a critical review which provides an overview of basic assumptions, measures, research topics, and research results in the androgyny literature. Notes that research on developmental perspectives emphasizes the importance of focusing on how individuals systematically maintain and modify their perceptions and experiences as men and women…

This paper studied interactive-compensatory predictions in relation to comprehension. It was suggested that when reading predictable text, attention of both good and poor readers is available for comprehension processing but for different reasons: good readers use their context-free word recognition skills, and poor readers use repetitive sentence…

Includes an introduction to the theory of Jungian psychological type, on which the Myers Briggs Type Indicator is based, ways to apply the Indicator to work settings, research in type related to careers, and suggestions for its use by employment counselors. (MCF)

Investigated whether there are unique and common elements between Johnson's (1978) theory and other related theories of decision making and learning among college students exploring academic and occupational alternatives. Results indicated there were some common elements in the ways students approach learning and career decision making along with…

Finds evidence for a continuum between children relying heavily on spelling-sound rules and those using specific associations. Spelling nonsense words correlated more highly with spelling regular words than with spelling exception words. Skill at rules was overgeneralized to exception words. Rule use in spelling correlated with rule use in…

Surveyed 421 high school females to determine the prevalence of bulimia. Teenage vomiters were found to have higher levels of somatic symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction, depression, and disturbed attitudes toward food, eating, and dieting. The findings provided information useful to school personnel who work with adolescents. (JAC)

Investigated strengths and weaknesses on Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) Subtest Scores between 278 students evaluated and placed in special education programs and 307 students evaluated but not placed in special programs. Findings revealed that the groups were similar in pattern of relative strengths and weaknesses on…

A spontaneous mastery measure, sampling sophistication of infants' behavior and infants' propensity to demonstrate their most sophisticated repertoire of skills, was developed and tested for predictability. Unlike a measure of executive capacity to which it was compared, the spontaneous mastery measure was highly stable across a 6-month period.…

Investigated differences in how persons raised in single-parent families and traditional two-parent families are faring in early adulthood. Results indicate that young adults raised by single parents tend to have lower educational, occupational, and economic attainment. Differences between the two groups are also observed in family formation and…

This study investigated the role of imagery in the short-term retention of complex, visually presented movement sequences. Findings suggest that visual imagery may play a functional role in the free recall of modeled movements; however, there was no indication that imagery was involved in the retention of serial information. (JMK)