To facilitate periodic developmental screening of all children, a Prescreening Developmental Questionnaire was created to identify those children under 3 years of age who require a more thorough screening with the Denver Developmental Screening Test. (Author)

As a result of recent federal legislation, school districts are being required to have all students reading at grade level by the year 2012. Such an exceedingly lofty goal cannot be achieved without powerful intervention programs. Here is a guide for districts and schools that outlines an intervention program for students in grades 1-3 who…

This handbook provides arts specialists and gifted coordinators with procedures for identifying students who are gifted in music. All personnel who are developing district identification procedures and trained individuals who will be involved in the screening and identification of gifted children in the area of music should read this handbook. To…

Discriminant validity of a measure of children's readiness for school was assessed by testing whether it distinguished between groups of children hypothesized to differ, on the basis of demographic characteristics, in their school readiness. The volunteer sample consisted of 3,370 kindergartners in Vermont public schools. Previous group care…

It has been proposed that the federal government's General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) might be used to provide private employers with the same kind of useful information the federal government and college counselors receive about job applicants. The U.S. Department of Labor asked the National Research Council (NRC) to review the issues related…

The stated goal of this pilot program is to move children back into the mainstream educational program as quickly as possible by identifying learning disabilities at the earliest stage. (Author/RK)

Purpose of this investigation is to develop a method of measuring tactile sensation regarding the texture, size, and shape of objects (stereognosis) in the hand of normal two- to four-year-old children. (Author)

Article reports on the testing of several diagnostic measures and a determination of what kinds of instructional groupings produce the most effective results in working with perceptive problems among kindergarten children. (Editor/MB)

A modified Lambert and Bower behavior rating scale is appended. (CJ)

The findings suggest that the AML Behavior Rating Scale is a promising mass screening device for the identification of children who are vulnerable to school failure. (Author)