A bibliography on education and mental health covers the following topics: social change; factors affecting children; parent roles; preschool children; factors affecting learning readiness; pedagogic methods; curriculum; special problems; adolescence; integration and needs of special groups; developing countries; and general references and…

Presented is the transcript of a television interview with the parents of a 20-month-old child with Down's Syndrome. (DB)

Parents should be involved at all levels of the school system according to their interests and capabilities. (Editor)

The evidence suggests that adolescents have only slightly more responsibility for household chores when the mother is employed, and that their degree of participation in social activities does not differ consistently from respondents whose mothers are not employed. (Author)

Parents bear a primary responsibility within the broader context of educational accountability, for meeting the physical, intellectual, spiritual and emotional needs of their children. (Author)

Argues for a system of joint accountability that would involve participation by teachers, administrators, the school board, parents, citizens, and taxpayers. (Author)

Three uses of video tape recordings with the mentally retarded; discussed briefly are staff training or teacher education, parental involvement in the child's education, and therapeutic uses by psychiatrists and psychologists. (CB)

Two parents explain the practical use of a daily journal to help their deaf son learn language from the ages of 2 to 5 years primarily. (Author/CB)

This experiment was a further test of the proposal that comparability in lifestyles exists between normal college males who have adopted closed and open styles of coping with aversive maternal control and the life-styles of process and reactive schizophrenics. (Author)

The concluding article to an interview with parents of handicapped children summarizes the children's current status and implications of the interview. (KW)