In a search for an adequate but efficient substitute, the authors have instituted three evaluations of the relationships between potential WAIS-substitutes and the WAIS itself. The present report describes the first of these researches-- a study of the relationships between the four group ability tests and the WAIS in a mental hospital setting.…

Presented were case studies of two similarly handicapped children of the same chronological (6-years-old) and mental ages, one of whom has been institutionalized since birth while the other S was cared for by his parents until he was 2-years-old. (GW)

Significant correlations were obtained between the language comprehension scores of the children and both the quality of the task directed to them and the way in which the nursery was organized. (Authors)

The study examined the effect of experimentally induced teacher bias, or expectancy, on the subsequent behavior of 24 institutionalized severely retarded children when the bias effects were a result of optimistic psychological reports to cottage parents. (Author)

Study is concerned with an item analysis of 465 Integration Level Test Series items in an attempt to develop a delinquency predictor scale for the test series. (Authors)

The author seeks to show how appropriate and reasonable risk-taking can and should be worked into the daily living experiences of the mentally retarded in America. (Author)

This study supports the hypothesis that children reared in group-care settings are not necessarily retarded in their psychosocial development in comparison to family-reared children. They may, in fact, depending upon group-care philosophy and practice, as well as reasons for admission, surpass their home-reared counterparts in psychological…