Direct care staff were taught via picture programs to transfer nonambulatory, severely mentally retarded men between their beds and wheelchairs. The still color photographs illustrated procedures and the addition of study guide questions increased the program's effectiveness. (Author/DB)

Explores four means of expressing musical concepts: symbolic, visual, motor, and semantics in Egyptian Education. Tests the Walker Theory which holds that there will be no difference in responses among individuals in any of the four areas. (RKM)

Significant visual and visual-perceptual problems must be identified in the early school years to save unnecessary stress, frustration, and anxiety. Classroom diagnosis using formal and informal measures can lead to referral to developmental or functional optometrists. (CL)

In two experiments 36 elementary and junior high learning-disabled (LD) students were taught attributes of minerals via mnemonic instruction, free study, or a visual-spatial display condition. In both experiments, students learned significantly more information in the mnemonic condition, and students in the visual-spatial condition did not…

A study examining the visual-auditory integration ability of 16 mildly mentally retarded adolescents revealed that Ss did significantly better on intrasensory than intersensory tasks and were more effective on tasks requiring judgments of intrasensory equivalence than those requiring judgments of intersensory equivalence. (Author/CL)

Article describes an experimental project in Milford, Ohio, in which students were taught visually. (HB)

Two experiments are an attempt to provide a description of three commonly observed phenomena of recognition behavior for alphabet characters in terms of the mathematics of correlation. (Author/KM)

Concludes that combined audiovisual presentations were significantly superior to either audio or visual presentations of information, thus confirming the validity of the Cue Summation Theory. (RB)

This article deals with studies that manipulated physical parameters of pictures- the amount of realistic detail, color versus black and white, and moving versus still pictures. (Author)

Described is an investigation into "the effects of visual education on teachers-in-training. The project sought to discover the effects of participation in a visual communications experience upon students' overall attitudes, quality of work, and ability to communicate." (Author/LS)

This essay focuses on the process of learning, discussing television viewing and written language in terms of discursive (words) and nondiscursive (art forms) symbolism. Libraries' use of these symbolic forms is also discussed. (EJS)