This article discusses children's phonological limitations, including perceptual difficulties and productive difficulties. (NCR)

Presents an analysis of Pascual-Leone's quantitative model for the measurement of the cognitive capacity of children. Presents an experiment in which 8-year-old children are asked to reproduce single actions and combinations of actions modeled by an experimenter. (BD)

Reports a study involving 35 learning-disabled boys attending full-time remedial schools and 35 matched normal achievers to investigate whether learning-disabled children differ from normal achievers in terms of logical thought and whether they exhibit decalages in their acquisition of Piagetian concepts. (BD/BR)

Early acquisition of right and left as absolute concepts does not seem to be related to early mastery of right and left as relative concepts among the Hausa. (Author)

Examines the extent to which the declining affection for the presidency among maturing youth results from increased knowledge about the presidency and about general political and social issues. Findings indicate that as youths' cognitive abilities become more mature, they find it easier to assimilate conflicting information and resist adult…

Three fundamental theoretical issues of importance to the work of curricularists are examined: (1) the matter of the technical and the practical; (2) the relation between knowledge and human interests; and (3) the relation between theory and practice. References are made to the critical theory writings of Richard J. Bernstein and Jurgen Habermas.…

Available from: American Medical Association, 535 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610. In order to determine what effect, if any, growth hormone (GH) has on human brain development, 29 patients (mean age 11.7 years) with GH deficiency were selected according to the following criteria: no evidence of reversible GH deficiency, onset of…

A pretest-posttest research design was used with 104 first-grade children to determine if discrimination and classifactory activities would affect transition from preoperational to concrete stages. Findings showed the experimental group exhibited significantly greater transition than did the control group. (CP)

The development of cognitive processes is essential to the development of reading comprehension skills. (MKM)

Does not support the hypothesis that cognitive regression takes place as a part of normal aging. (RL)

The author briefly reviews six recently published books dealing with aspects of child development and early childhood education. (DS)

The paper argues the position that, given different sensory equipment, and therefore a different data base, the congenitally blind child necessarily develops and organizes his perceptions of the world in an intrinsically different way from the sighted. (Author)

Discusses the challenge of teaching scientific concepts to children whose world view differs from adults. (SL)

The use of Piaget's Displacement Volume task is shown to be a reasonably good indicator of early formal reasoning. A paper-and-pencil task is also shown effective in measuring the same stage of reasoning. (MN)