The article describes the three-year development/demonstration phase of a project for gifted/talented handicapped children, known as RAPYHT (Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented). (Author/DLS)

The article describes a pilot project with 268 preschoolers to increase the pleasantness, compatibility, and efficiency of the preschool screening program. (SBH)

The author discusses the concepts of giftedness and the problems inherent in identifying gifted children. He proposes that the development of screening techniques might aid early identification of gifted children "at risk" and that attempts should be made to profile gifted delinquents who may not respond well to therapy. (CT)

A procedure for estimating the rates of false positive and false negative classification in a mastery testing situation is described. Formulas and tables are described for the computations of the standard errors. (Author/JKS)

The General Information subtest of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) was compared with the Information subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) to determine the utility of the PIAT subtest for screening purposes. It was concluded that a high correlation existed. (Author/CTM)

Recommendations for surveillance programs include: (1) screening systems should include multiple sources of data for decision making; (2) conceptually, screening should include procedures that assess the ongoing transaction between the child and the caregivers in his/her environment; and (3) surveillance should be conducted serially over time.…

Predictive validity of the Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language and the Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration was investigated singly and in combination for a group of preschool children. The results indicated little practical significance in using both instruments as opposed to either test singly. (Author/CP)

Based on studies and clinical findings, two techniques for testing infant vision are described: near-retinoscopy (used to assess the refractive state of infants and young children) and a fast preferential looking procedure (used to assess the acuity of infants up to one year of age). (DLS)

Three approaches to the evaluation of diagnostic decision making for handicapped students are discussed: accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, and ROC (receiver-operating-characteristic) analysis. ROC analysis is explained to allow the diagnostician to vary the decision threshold depending on the index of suspicion and relative costs and benefits…

Four hundred eighty-six preschool children were screened with the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) and the Preschool Language Scale (PLS). Children who failed the screening were referred for a formal language assessment. Results indicated that the DDST is slightly more effective than the PLS in identifying preschool children who need…

The interplay between the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the oral language performance is discussed. Performance features and their cutoff criteria are suggested for a clinical use of the reformulation task in an initial pass/fail screening of the oral language ability of students at the upper elementary school level. (Author)

Compared the SIT with the WISC-R for a group of intellectually gifted students. Results indicated reduced correlations between the measures. (Author)

A prekindergarten screening program using a team consisting of two kindergarten teachers, a school psychologist, a speech/language therapist, a nurse, and an occupational therapist/special education teacher for the identification of "high risk" children is described. (PHR)

School nurses are advised to change their programs from crisis-oriented health care to active case finding and preventive care. (JMF)

A study of 156 hearing impaired students (ages 3 to 14 years) was undertaken to see how many of the Ss suffered from a visual anomaly (disease, refractive error, or binocularity). (PHR)