The mothers and fathers of 11 preschool autistic children were taught operant procedures used in teaching speech to nonverbal children. At posttreatment, the children showed significant gains in pre-speech and speech skills as measured by a 21-step hierarchy of speech behaviors. (Author)

Investigated fathers' influence on the socialization of children and how it may differ from that of mothers. Parents (N=128) responded to seven scales concerning parental role responsibilities. Fathers and mothers reported high agreement as to major parental role responsibilities for a male child, less agreement occurred for female children.…

Using a two-wave panel design, examined antecedents and short-term consequences of teenage marriage, parenting, and school-leaving. Findings showed that while these three role transitions are not greatly related to social origins, academic ability, or performance, dropping-out is more highly linked than the other two. (Author)

This article presents some of the issues and strategies involved in planning, conducting, and evaluating in-service education programs for parents. (MM)

Based on a comprehensive review of the literature, this paper identifies 39 trends in 15 areas of marriage and the family. Although the existence of some trends is firmly established, others are more tenuous or predictive. Implications for family-life educators and counselors are discussed. (Author)

Examined the effect of the sibling structures of number and spacing, sex composition, and birth order on adolescents' perceptions of the power and support dimensions of parental behavior. Results suggest that research focusing on birth order must control for number of siblings, spacing, and sex composition of siblings. (Author)

Illustrates how a particular setting affects language use and offers suggestions for parents to help children develop language sensitivity. (HTH)

This study analyzes adults authoritarian responses to vignettes of differing behaviors of preschool children. Single persons saw themselves as more authoritarian and were less child-oriented than parents. Males were less authoritative in a one-to-one relationship. (KMF)

Reports research on the communicative behavior of a hearing child whose parents communicated with him, from birth, in both signs and words. The child's expressive ability accelerated in both modalities and this is possibly attributable to the addition of the signed component. (PJM)

The value of employment for mothers is dominated by opportunity costs for the current parental role. Differences between findings for full and part- time employment expectations were the greater importance of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards, respectively. Part-time employment was more compatible with the parental role. (Author)

One successful program which is receiving nationwide attention as a key to TV use and family communication is the "Parent Participation TV Workshops." Gloria Kirshner talked to the author about the workshops. (Author/KC)

The authors examine, through interviews with 175 parents, students, teachers, and support personnel, potential obstacles to the successful development and use of individualized education programs (IEPs) as required by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (CL)

This article briefly describes 10 effective ways that parents and teachers can work together to motivate children to read. (Author)

Problems of implementing a mainstreaming program for exceptional children include lack of staff preparation and inadequate guidelines concerning resource room operation. Four approaches to the problem are recommended: a total integrated effort of all staff, a well-developed plan for teacher education, good public relations, and early involvement…

Describes a study designed (1) to develop a parent behavior instrument suitable to the study of rural parents; (2) to study the stability of the behavior of rural parents over a one-year period; and (3) to investigate rural parent behaviors in relation to family and child demographic variables. (CT)