The University of Michigan's Shady Trails Camp helps speech impaired children to realize their full potential, using games, student productions, physical activities, and competition, in addition to speech and language therapy. Dances, parties, and trips in a coeducational environment contribute to the development of social skills. (CJ)

The data revealed that young Down syndrome children attained significantly higher scores on the Vineland Social Maturity Scale and achieved most feeding milestones much earlier if they had no or only mild congenital heart disease, if their parents followed through appropriately with furnished guidance, and if they had "good" muscle tone. (Author)

This survey and analysis of the literature emanating from less developed countries (LDCs) and international agencies focuses on their perceptions of the needs of LDCs for scientific and technical information for social and economic development. Constituencies represented include both users and purveyors of information, and planners and…

Examines the development of social relations in kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade children through an assessment of the children's role-taking skills and classification abilities. (CM)

Examines mother-infant and father-infant interaction over time at three different levels: dyadic, individual, and specific content. (Author/MP)

A group procedure for the management of classroom behavior is described which has been used successfully with emotionally disturbed, educable mentally handicapped, and learning disabled students. The strategy allows for group goal setting and peer feedback on individual behavior and improves socioemotional development. (PHR)

Results of this study indicate that female offspring develop personality types more congruent with their parental-pair type. Degrees of congruence between male offspring and their parents' personality types conform to chance expectation. (Author)

Critically reviews research since 1972 on maternal deprivation. Topics discussed include: the development of social relationships and the process of bonding; critical periods of development; links between childhood experiences and parenting behavior; influences on parenting; and possible reasons why so many children do not succumb to deprivation…

Discusses the development of aggression in young children, methods for dealing with it and ways of helping children acquire more prosocial behaviors. (Author/SB)

Describes socializing roles performed by American colleges after 1700, when the family shed its traditional role due to geographical mobility, cultural and political squabbles, religious declension, and family reorientation. (Author/DB)

A personal growth group was used to enhance social and emotional growth in eight borderline trainable to educable mentally handicapped adolescents. (DB)

Describes a research project based upon a model of the university as a political system. A two-step causal sequence is hypothesized, with students' negative perceptions of the university environment generating feelings of academic alienation, which in turn foster a desire for academic reform. Results are considered in terms of the university as an…

Significant increases in global self-esteem and the four subdomains of physical self-worth were measured in 66 males and 60 females with a mean age of 15.1 years who participated in a (British) Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme expedition, indicating that adventure education can be a vehicle for personal and social development. Contains 21…

Explores the relationship between adolescent reports of the level of kinship support they experience as members of an extended family network and racial socialization beliefs. Responses from 229 African American adolescents support the hypothesis that adolescent perceptions of the importance of racial socialization relate directly to perceived…

Presents data from a survey of randomly selected adolescents (N=474) which examined differences between male and female sexual identities. Results indicate two main dimensions in male sexual self-concept: socioemotional and the relational. Female sexual self-concept revolved around concerns with assertiveness, such as controlling when sex occurs.…