For the age range tested there is a lag between the perception and production of certain facial expressions. (Authors)

Specific aim of the study was to determine the predictive accuracy of selected observations obtained during developmental periods on later developmental outcome. (Authors)

Describes effort by counselor to make relationship between mothers and children more growth-promoting through shared group experiences in which new approaches to old behaviors were introduced. (CJ)

A Parent Education Program is developed in which a paraprofessional person teaches mothers a set of specific activities to enhance the intellectual and personal development of the child. (MF)

Implications of this study on child-development theory, education, and psychotherapy are discussed. (MB)

Findings indicate that early retention may increase achievement, but is indicative of lack of readiness on part of child for learning. Suggests transitional or ungraded classes to assist them, and to avoid social stigma of being held back. (CJ)

Digest of papers of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatry Association (San Francisco, California, March 23-26, 1970). (RD)

Believes that most children's books avoid an honest treatment of death and its repercussions on a family. Reviews six books that show a special sensitivity to the emotions of fear, shame, anger and the difficulty of adjustment following the loss of a loved person. Lists books and publishers. (RB)