Mental ability, language development (English), language development (Spanish), and self-image changes were studied as effects of an early intervention program for preschool children. (Authors/JA)

Discussed talent search programs and their objectives, such as finding disadvantaged students who, with developmental assistance and financial support, could profit from additional education and training, and then counsel these students and help them find academic admission and occupational placement. (Author/RK)

The background, philosophy, and mechanics of the Leighton Park Neighborhood Centre are explained. Groups are formed on the basis of friendship and/or interest and are supplied with a resource person who can, on request, assist in demonstrating techniques. (Author/AG)

This study questions the use of a general IQ score as a basis for conclusions relating to studies of intelligence, especially with minority children. Instead, it looks at item-responses from Stanford-Binet tests. Using Guilford's Structure of Intellect Model applied to organismic responses, the authors tallied the item responses. (Author/LA)

This paper discusses a broad range of problems associated with preschool education programs for disadvantaged children. (RP)

Presents results of a study of the phonological, morphological, and syntactical oral language patterns of disadvantaged children of New Orleans. Many of the findings are relevant to beginning reading instruction. (TO)

A discussion of the strong emphasis on cognitive development in preschool education of disadvantaged children which may be inappropriate to the broader learning process. Suggests that a different approach may be needed to foster maturation in youngsters deprived physically and emotionally. (ST)

Identifies stages in a child's life (particularly low-income children) at which he might be "disadvantaged" or "advantaged" in relation to certain influences in his life at that time, and argues that the child experiences the most critical influences before the school receives him.

This paper is an account of one student's problems stemming from a deprived family background and its effect on his school performance. (RWP)

Describes an industry-sponsored day care center, the Urban Affairs Child Development Center, in the heart of Houston's Fifth Ward poverty area. (CS)

Studied effects of participation in Science - A Process Approach activities through an experimental-control, pretest-posttest research design. Data analyses of 113 kindergarten children enrolled in four classes of an inner-city school showed that transmitting skills were enhanced with increasing beginning reading ability. (CC)

Describes the four areas in which the problems a child meets in understanding his classmates or the teacher can be considered to arise: the difficulty caused by a word, a structure, the amount of information the child is asked to retain and/or the context in which the information is presented. (Author/JM)

Board members of Instructor have an informal discussion about important educational issues that affect each child's learning proficiency. (Author/RK)

The fundamental decisions to be made are moral and philosophical ones. There are experts on language and reading and child development, but there are no experts on moral and philosophical decision-making. (Author/CB)

Deals with pre and post-natal malnutrition and its possible influence on the child, focusing on these points: How wide-spread and severe is the malnutrition? What might be the effects of the malnutrition at certain critical points in development? (Author/JM)