This listing of sources pertaining to various aspects of visual communication and their instructional implications contains dissertations, journal articles, books, papers and projects. Eighty-two entries through 1972 are organized in seven sections: (1) the process of communication, (2) research design, (3) screen education/ visual literacy:…

This annotated bibliography focuses upon works suitable for use with disadvantaged children. Books, stories, poems, films, and recordings are listed separately for preschool children and for age groups 5 to 8, 9 to 11, and 12 to 14. A concluding section lists other useful resources for adults working with children. (AA)

Presented is an evaluation of a program serving 373 disadvantaged mentally retarded children in New York City to provide services in the areas of health, physical and emotional, education, social and recreational needs. Reported are findings indicating that 94% of the Ss had 60% of or more of their unmet needs satisfied and that 65% of the Ss had…

Originally designed for inner city children, ages 3-5 years, "Sesame Street" was designed to increase knowledge in the areas of: symbolic representation (pre-reading skills), cognitive organization which entails relational concepts, reasoning and problem solving, and the child and his world. This study examined the effects of the program…

The guide provides information on resources for bilingual materials, services, and programs nationally and in the Region 9 states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont) served by the Northeast Area Learning Resource Center. Sections are given to information (such as address and a brief…

Evaluation of a project that provided flight instruction to inner-city junior high school students showed that former project youths are demonstrably better off than controls in the areas of employment, avoidance of deviant behavior, and advanced education. (MLH)

Investigated was the correlation between socioeconomic status, ethnic group membership, and neurological pathology in a random sample of 508 fourth- and fifth-grade children. (CL)

Discusses the federally sponsored Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides benefits for severely impaired children from low- and moderate-income families. (CM)

Children, and especially Black children, are confronted with choices, peer pressures, domestic role reversals, and other influences that pose a significant threat to their full development as productive citizens and well-adjusted human beings. These factors must be dealt with by an informed society. (EB)

Thirty-six elementary school teachers in a predominantly lower and working class urban school system were selected in order to define creativity in terms of specific observable behaviors believed by teachers of the disadvantaged to indicate creativity in the classroom setting. (BD)

Outlines Bernard van Leer Foundation sponsorship of action programs and research studies of child development in 25 countries. The problems and possibilities of such work are discussed from the viewpoint of evaluation and the contribution which can be made to the behavioral sciences--notably to comparative child development. (Author/RH)

Reviews research in Britain and the United States on intervention with deprived preschool children and describes programs introduced in monitoring the problems of working with the staffs of six London (England) day nurseries. Particular difficulties in the project approach and implications for action research as a method are discussed. (MF)

Stating that no vocational education program demands greater commitment from teachers than the work experience program, the author describes from personal experience with the Ohio Occupational Work Experience program the many roles of the teacher-coordinator in keeping the potential dropout in school and employed. (MF)

Three hundred fifty-nine pupils in grades four through six were given a supplemental guided discovery mathematics program designed for Special Elementary Education For the Disadvantaged (SEED). The guided discovery group improved approximately twice as much as the control group in arithmetic computation, concepts, application, total score, and in…

Measures of abstract reasoning ability, degree of bidialectism, and reading performance were administered to Black, inner-city third and fifth graders. Abstract reasoning ability significantly affected reading performance while expressive proficiency in Standard English and Black English did not significantly affect scores. The importance of…