The data suggested that both joining and conversation skills were problems for the boys, and that participation in the social skills training program resulted in improvement in interpersonal skills and in the frequency of interactions with peers. (Author)

Social perception deficits are intensified by incarceration. Social education programs can be used to identify, analyze, and remedy the difficulties experienced by the perceptually handicapped inmate. (JOW)

A curriculum designed to incorporate sex education into the regular curriculum through a human growth and development approach is described in a six-level outline focusing on social identity, physiological identity, and health and hygiene. (CL)

Behavioral assessment methods for measuring the social development of exceptional children include teacher nominations, rankings, rating scales, and checklists. Use of direct observation procedures in analogue (simulated) and naturalistic settings can pinpoint antecedents and consequences of social behavior and provide goals for intervention. (CL)

Tests the relationship between social cognition and children's aggressive behavior. Aggressive and nonaggressive boys from grades 2, 4, and 6 were exposed to a frustrating negative outcome instigated by an unknown peer who acted with either hostile, benign, or ambiguous intent. (CM)

Interaction between mother and first-born child before and after the birth of a second child was studied in 41 families, using home observations and interview techniques. (MP)

Tests the hypothesis that a child's activity preferences may predict subsequent changes in the child's aggression, insofar as activity preferences partly determine how much time the child spends in aggression-conducive situations. (Author/RH)

Examines the extent to which statements representing eight broad dimensions of communication are associated with words commonly used to identify relationships of varying degrees of intimacy. Dimensions of the interaction included are uniqueness, depth, breadth, efficiency, flexibility, smoothness, spontaneity, and overt evaluations. (JMF)

Since several investigators have found language and play development to be interrelated, free play classifications were constructed for the assessment of social participation, cognitive play, and nonplayful activities for both normally hearing and hearing impaired preschoolers. (Author)

Reports on a 1972 study of nursery school children's racial attitudes compared with those of older children. Children were tested with a semantic differential questionnaire and a social distance scale and were compared across age and race. Concludes that the norm for racial attitudes is a bias for one's own race. (MK)

The article examines some of the special academic, psychosocial, and career problems of adolescents and young adults resulting from early severe auditory deprivation. The academic, psychosocial, and career development of deaf adolescents are considered. (DLS)

The effect of two types of role-taking training experiences on role taking, empathy, altruism, and aggression was investigated in 30 six- and 30 nine-year-old boys. (SS)

Infant-toy and infant-adult interaction were observed in four conditions which varied the degree of adult-toy manipulation. Subjects were 48 infants 11-13 months of age. (Author/SS)

Investigates two levels of the spontaneous inference of thinking in others (nonrecursive and recursive) in children of ages 10, 12, 14 and 16 using a person description task. (Author/SS)

Two studies evaluate several ecological conditions under which early social relations might be established and changed, paying particular attention to the relative novelty of children's toys. Both studies involved two adults with individual preschool children for several successive play sessions. (Author/SB)