Children's visual perception of the letters b and d when confronted with them for the first time was studied. (KW)

Occurrence of residual stutterings on adjacent words caused by blotting out words at random in a reading passage was studied. (KW)

Response cost (punishment) decreased stuttering below the baserate frequency for three adult male stutterers, but when reintroduced after pairing with reinforcement, one subject's rate of stuttering did not immediately decrease, suggesting that punishment for stuttering may acquire discriminative attributes after systematic pairing with a…

A clinical program of vocal rehabilitation for eight patients with biopsied papillomata of the vocal folds resulted in reduction or elimination of the papillomata in four patients. (KW)

Described are contributions to and use of the Behavior Bank, an international computer bank containing information (Behavior Charts and data forms) on over 11,000 precise measurement projects conducted to modify behavior through a wide variety of procedures from various disciplines. (KW)

The Northern California Research Project on Student Attrition, or NORCAL, represents the cooperative effort of 22 junior colleges. The purposes of the project are to identify school dropouts, reasons for their withdrawing, and possible solutions for some of the problems. (BB)

This paper is designed to point out major funding sources and chronical what was, and is, the Federal support pattern. (Author)

Analysis presented in article is first attempt at developing averages for certain groups of engineering schools as a basis for assessing performance and developing plans for research and graduate activities. (IR)

Describes the activities of the Center for Applied Linguistics in the field of contrastive linguistics since its founding in 1959. The author is Director of the Foreign Language Program at the Center. (FB)