Interviews with project directors of various research and development centers provide information on programs intended to give teachers practical help in teaching mentally retarded children. (GW)

Article supported in part by a grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (VM)

Research supported in part by a National Science Foundation Grant. (VM)

Teachers, through raising their eyes from textbooks and looking at living language as it influences the lives of individual people and the course of human events, can help children preserve their early zest for language. (Author)

Authors suggest the development of learning experiences which bridge the boundaries suggested by conventional grade level divisions. (Editor/MB)

Reviews the importance of reading and several aspects of the present situation in reading instruction. Emphasizes the role of the individual and the need for leadership as the field of reading moves into the future. (MB)

Article proposes a set of frequency groups and describes an algorithm for the implementation of a frequency identification and marking procedure on an IBM 360 computer. A sample page of a Russian text book utilizing the technique is given and several other potential utilizations are described. (Author)

An analysis of the speech of infants gives a clue to the evolution of language. (DR)

Paper presented before the Indiana University Linguistics Club on May 13, 1971, in Bloomington, Indiana. (VM)

Teachers should not try to impose on children the language of adults, but they can provide models for them to grow naturally into as they become adults. The child knows his language when he comes to school, and the teacher should try to build on what he knows, not blunder into opposition to it. (Author)