The author discusses preliminary findings from a 22 year follow-up of adolescent and adult creative behavior of 220 persons from the original elementary student sample. Having a childhood future career image that persisted and having a mentor were consistently related to five criteria of creative achievement. (CL)

The children's Handicaps, Behavior and Skills Schedule (HBS) was administered to 148 parents and professionals involved with severely retarded children (3 to 22 years old) as a follow-up of a 1970 survey in Denmark. (CL)

Reports that the number of Blacks in the newsrooms of 25 major daily newspapers nearly doubled between 1968 and 1978, but that Black news executives and desk people (generally copy readers and editors) were still quite scarce in 1978. (GT)

Factors such as gestational age and birthweight were compared in a follow-up study of 66 neonates with diarrhea and two groups of infants--one with low birthweight, one with optimal birthweight. Among findings was that low birthweight was found to correlate with low test scores on visual perception regardless of whether the infants had had…

Reports the findings of a series of long-term maintenance tests and a generalization phase given to a group of educable mentally retarded children more than one year after they were trained to use self-checking routines for estimating test readiness. (JMB)

A comprehensive followup system for graduates of local distributive education programs is suggested as an effective accountability tool. (HD)

Presents a selected bibliography of ERIC documents of interest and use to community college institutional researchers engaged in the planning or conduct of follow-up studies. (JDS)

Reports a long-term follow-up of the effects of self-modeling on the reduction of stuttering in two groups of students who initially evidenced different mean percentages of stuttered words. Results reveal that students involved in the initial study who initially exhibited substantially higher mean percentages of stuttered words, maintained their…

A long-term followup (from 26 to 57 months) of echolalia and correct question-answering was conducted with six mentally retarded adult subjects identified from three previously published studies. Echolalia was lower than in baseline in 80.6 percent of the followups. Issues related to the study of maintenance are discussed. (Author/DB)

Conducted follow-up study of 43 subjects in mentally retarded residential population. Findings corroborated earlier findings that Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) cannot be regarded as equivalent testing instruments. WAIS-R yielded consistently higher scores for intellectually…

A study compared 473 adult releasees who had vocational/academic training to a control group (287) who did not. The vocational and vocational/academic groups had the highest employment rates and lowest criminal activity rates after 12 months of tracking. (JOW)

The 10-year followup study of a severely retarded man treated for self-injurious behavior with a multiphased behavioral and vocational program found the incidence of self injurious behavior remained infrequent and rarely resulted in tissue damage. (Author/DB)

Examines aspects of the adult lives of wholly or partly home-educated people. Found that all who attempted higher education were successful, that there was no evidence of prejudice regarding employment, and that the socialization of home-educated students was often better than that of their schooled peers. (JOW)

Fifteen subjects ages 6 to 22 years with autistic syndromes and pathological urine patterns with increased urinary peptides were given diets free of gluten and casein and were evaluated at 1 and 4 years. Normalization of urine patterns, a decrease in odd behavior, and improvement in communication skills were found. (SLD)