Hints on making learning fun. (SP)

The thesis is presented that manpower programs are a third major approach to the socialization of the young in a capital-intensive society--after the family and school systems. (Author)

Describes a program that succeeded in involving sixth grade children with residents of two nursing homes. (RB)

Results indicated that children who did not exhibit allergic reactions were otherwise healthier and were rated as superior on a number of academic, social, and emotional adjustment dimensions. (Author)

Phrenology provided a means of screening job applicants during the wave of urban immigration of the 1850s. (RA)

Traces the child's growing understanding of the recursive nature of thought through mastery of a sequence of four steps. Recursive thinking may well be a prerequisite for complex, role taking-type inferences found in adolescent thought. (WY)

The case study discusses a seven-year-old hearing impaired boy who has difficulty playing with other children. The counselor suggested that his parents play a variety of games with him, make the home more attractive to other children, and send him to a day camp. (CL)

H. Goldstein's Social Learning Curriculum was adapted for mentally retarded children in Taiwan by substantive changes reflecting language and cultural differences. Field testing yielded comments which were then incorporated into the final Chinese Revision of the SLC. (CL)

The hypothesis that gifted children are more similar to their mental age peers in emotional and social spheres was tested with 16 gifted third graders, 16 average IQ third graders, and 16 average IQ sixth graders. (SB)

Fifteen learning disabled adolescents who participated in a social skills awareness program involving discussion and filmstrips significantly improved their posttest scores on the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale and on the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior, compared to a conrol group. No significant differences…

Regular and special class students showed a similar perception on both leadership and game playing; however, educable mentally retarded students differed significantly in regard to friendship by being more egocentric than their regular classroom peers. (Author)