Describes 5 levels of parent involvement in schools (audience, teacher of the child, volunteer, trained worker, and participant in decision making), with details of a follow through program that tries to involve parents at all levels. (Author/SP)

Explained for the parents of handicapped children are the purposes and rationale of personality tests as part of a battery of psychological tests involved in comprehensive psychological evaluation. (KW)

Male high school dropouts were found to differ from high school (attending) males of the same age in several significant variables. (AN)

A pedodontist, a specialist in the dental care of children, discusses the dental needs of handicapped children and guidelines for selection of a dentist. (KW)

Explained is an approach that parents can use to help their hearing impaired child adjust to future hospitalization. (CB)

Described for parents are the three parts of the pediatric neurological examination: medical history, physical examination, and electroencephalogram. (KW)

The author suggests that we must mobilize all possible aids to help parents perceive the needs of the larger society and to identify themselves with them. A new educational role is to aid individuals in seeking emotional security in roles which greatly transcend the limits of the family. (Author)

Parental understanding of PKU, investigated through a questionnaire, was evaluated as to completeness and with respect to distortion. Education of parents was found to be unrelated to their understanding or tendency to distort. Effectiveness of the pediatrician's communication with parents is discussed. (Author/KW)

In Liverpool, England, the University Institute of Extension Studies, the Workers Educational Association, and the Educational Priority Areas project are working together in primary education, adult education, and community development in a working class community. (EB)

Modeling, prompting, and feedback techniques increased correct use of prompts and praise by parents as well as decreases in tangential statements during structured imitation training with their children in an experimental preschool. Instruction in usng the skills at home were also effective. (Author/CL)

Describes the services of a community-based center providing social services to adolescent parents who cannot yet function independently and who had not previously been served. Emphasis is placed on continuity of services and on cooperation with existing educational, medical, and social institutions. (Author/DB)

Initiated in 1974 at Gallaudet College (District of Columbia), the Learning Vacation involves the entire family in learning about, accepting, and dealing with school-aged hearing impaired children. The program is described in terms of staff, parent education, family activities, funding, potential barriers, and benefits. (SB)

Reviews recent actions taken in Sweden to promote child welfare such as banning corporal punishment, prohibiting the sale of toys depicting modern war, implementing parent education and bilingual programs, and providing leave from work so parents can care for their newborn. (Author/RH)