Traces the child's growing understanding of the recursive nature of thought through mastery of a sequence of four steps. Recursive thinking may well be a prerequisite for complex, role taking-type inferences found in adolescent thought. (WY)

The case study discusses a seven-year-old hearing impaired boy who has difficulty playing with other children. The counselor suggested that his parents play a variety of games with him, make the home more attractive to other children, and send him to a day camp. (CL)

H. Goldstein's Social Learning Curriculum was adapted for mentally retarded children in Taiwan by substantive changes reflecting language and cultural differences. Field testing yielded comments which were then incorporated into the final Chinese Revision of the SLC. (CL)

The hypothesis that gifted children are more similar to their mental age peers in emotional and social spheres was tested with 16 gifted third graders, 16 average IQ third graders, and 16 average IQ sixth graders. (SB)

Fifteen learning disabled adolescents who participated in a social skills awareness program involving discussion and filmstrips significantly improved their posttest scores on the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale and on the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior, compared to a conrol group. No significant differences…

Regular and special class students showed a similar perception on both leadership and game playing; however, educable mentally retarded students differed significantly in regard to friendship by being more egocentric than their regular classroom peers. (Author)

Ten suggestions for improving the social skills of learning disabled students include teaching the child to make eye contact while talking, explaining implications of voice qualities, role playing to examine emotions, and providing direct instruction on appropriate responses in social situations. (CL)

To investigate the empathic development of deaf preadolescents, 21 deaf Ss were equally divided into three groups matched for age and mental ability. The results demonstrated that deaf preadolescents have more difficulty with empathy development than hearing children, and this ability is related to onset of deafness. (Author)

The value and function of reading in modern culture are examined. (JMF)

A significant relationship was found between changes in social emotional status and creativity. Creative and social-emotional changes occurred independently of most variables known about a child at the beginning of treatment. (Author)

Presents a model of the development of desociocentering, decentering relative to the social group, which is based on Piagetian research and theory and Wernerian concepts. (Author/SS)

An approach to ameliorate social perception deficits in learning disabled children is described. Based on task analysis and diagnosis and prescription, the approach is seen to cover four stages in teaching nonverbal communication skills: discrimination of specific social cues (body language), understanding of the social meanings of such cues,…

Presents a descriptive analysis of infant-adult face-to-face interaction, as well as the data for analyses of the relations between the two partners and the contribution of each one during the interaction. Subjects were five infants (aged 80-92 days) and their mothers. (MP)

Discusses various aspects of adolescents' needs and feelings in relation to their efforts to become competent human beings. (SS)