Guidelines are offered parents in helping their disabled children assume increasing responsibility for dental care. Guidelines touch on toothbrushing, dentist visits, nutrition, and medication. (CL)

Self-reported reading ability of parents of 174 reading-disabled children and 182 controls was used to estimate posterior probability that a child of an affected parent will become reading disabled. It was found that the risk for reading disabilities is increased substantially if either parent has had difficulty in learning to read. (Author/CL)

The paper contrasts two assumptions about the nature of autism and discusses their implications for parent services. A deficit model of parental pathology and definition of the parent as patient is seen to lack empirical support. Growing recognition of biological etiology is discussed and alternative definitions of the parent or family as focus…

The case study traces the early education of an exceptionally intellectually talented sister and brother identified by the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at the Johns Hopkins University. The experience of the parents with education, both their own and their children's are examined. (Author/CL)

An integrated parent-professional approach to assessment uses parents of disabled children as expert information gatherers and verifiers in an ongoing process of evaluating the child and establishing treatment goals. The Nottingham assessment model is described, and suggestions for implementing parent-professional collaboration are discussed.…

Parent groups have evolved from providing direct services to mentally retarded persons to advocacy efforts. Continued activities should focus on program quality monitoring, legislative and governmental action, and, if necessary, litigation. (CL)

The author describes the use of AIM (Achievement Identification Measure), a parent report, to identify gifted students' underachievement characteristics. AIM examines five dimensions: competition, responsibility, self-control, achievement communication, and respect. (CL)

Videotapes were taken of 57 mothers and their handicapped infants and of 23 mother-child dyads four months later in a study of the Teaching Skills Inventory, a measure to assess changes in parents' performance as teachers of their own children. (CL)

Conclusions are drawn from a review of research on characteristics of material input to hearing impaired children, including that the use of imperatives alone is not sufficient to predict later outcomes and some aspects of the mother's repertoire may be tied to her sense of control over the world. (CL)

Presents factors crucial to the success of the combination classroom: planning, teacher selection, student selection, parent support, and schoolwide support. (MD)

The mother of two disabled children describes feelings--such as grief over the loss of a perfect child and helplessness in relieving the child's suffering--which parents of handicapped children experience, and offers suggestions which include talking about the disability with a matter-of-fact attitude and learning self-acceptance. (SB)

This book chronicles the author's experiences managing his son's wildly unpredictable Little League baseball team, exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of adult involvement in Little League, a game played by, and meant for, children. The book examines timely issues surrounding youth baseball today. Through interviews with parents, opposing…

Although services for the mentally retarded have grown tremendously in the past decade, many practical problems remain. These problems, which confront either the client and his family or the professional, must be examined carefully if both groups are to work together to provide needed services for the retarded. (Author)

A U.S. Congressman discusses inequities for the handicapped in the proposed national health insurance bills, and suggests how parents can be most influential in affecting legislation. (KW)

A review of some of the basic research on how children use television and on how children are influenced by parents' attitudes towards the role of television. (AA)