Reported were data concerned with research and development of communications systems for persons with motor handicaps. An experiment on receptive communication which attempted to determine whether tactual information could be acquired simultaneously by several fingers indicated that superior performance resulted when patterns were scanned by one…

Fifty preterm children who had experienced a range of biological hazards were divided into two competence groups on the basis of their receptive language development at 24 months. Arthur Retlaw and Associates, Inc., Suite 2080, 1603 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201. (Author)

Test results of 23 developmentally delayed students (5-7 years old) indicated that the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts--Form A was correlated with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Form A. (CL)

Investigated was the acquisition of compund words in relation to receptive vocabulary and grade level of 50 students (5-10 years old). (CL)

A teacher devised an activity based on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" to spark her deaf students' interest in fingerspelling. "Fingerspelling Fortune" spells out puzzles using cards with handshapes. As the cards are turned and the students try to guess the phrases, they increase proficiency in recognizing handshapes. (VW)

Three experiments were carried out to explore the influence of orthographic codes in the comprehension of auditorially presented words by blind and sighted adolescents (N=24). Results of the first experiment suggested that a braille-derived orthographic code, as well as a print-derived code, affects auditory word processing. (Author)

Discusses an approach to teaching Russian which addresses the problem from the perspective of the reader or listener. Students are taught first to identify the nuclear construction of sentences--the subject and predicate--and then to isolate the remaining noun phrases and relate them with one of the two core elements. (SED)

Thirty academically achieving and 30 learning-disabled adolescents were examined on a battery of auditory language comprehension tests. Results indicated that 73 percent of the learning-disabled group scored lower than all of the control Ss on one or more of these tests. The importance of identifying auditory comprehension defects in the…

Discusses the elements of the language learning process, i.e., language experience, the learner, mental processes, comprehension, learning, the capacities the learner brings to the process, and the conditions for learning and elaborates on their implications for second language teaching. What must occur before the learner moves across the gap…

The Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test was administered to 56 males and 52 females from 45 to 80 months of age to investigate sex differences in the expressive vocabulary of Head Start children. Data indicated no significant sex differences. (Author/PN)

Differential attention of two-month-old infants to synthetically generated and naturally produced rising and falling intonation contours was studied, and it was learned that infants attended more to naturally produced rising contours and synthetically generated falling contours. Use of the infant-control auditory preference paradigm was also…