Presents one example of an individualized and open social studies course wherein the class became a microcosm of the community and discusses the values of such an approach. (TO)

Discusses ten elements of visual or photographic language using examples from a photographer's handling of an assignment to photograph an Alice Cooper concert. (TO)

The relationships between specific aspects of peripheral ocular defects and perceptual deficits were investigated in a cerebral palsied population of 60 spastics, 60 athetoids, and 60 non-neurologically impaired Ss, 7 to 21 years of age. (Author/MC)

Letter learning and recognition by 72 young (kindergarten or grades 1 or 2) learning disabled children were studied using visual, tactual, and visual plus tactual training and testing with 5- and 15-second exploration times. (Author)

The Suvag Lingua is a machine used to facilitate better aural perception by working from and on the basis of a student's error in producing a particualr sound and adapting the model which is to be imitated. (DD)

The classroom model Suvag Lingua is intended for collective phonetic correction rather than individual. (DD)

Compares similarities in correcting defective pronunciation in the mother tongue and in a second language. (DD)

The brain perceives, but its perceptions are conditioned by environment. Traditionally education has reinforced that conditioning; today it must give insight into its arbitrainess and cultural ideosyncrasy. (Author/JH)

The effects of perceptual pretraining on preferences and concept identification performance in five- and eight-year-old Ss were investigated.

The present study operationally defines selective attention in terms of tactile observing responses measured by percentage contact time per trial to the relevant stimulus dimension, and investigates the changes of these responses in a discrimination shift paradigm under the effect of overlearning. (Author)

Research studies were conducted to determine the effectiveness of multisensory learning systems in teaching basic concepts to two and five-year-old children. (Author/RK)

The aim of this paper is to attempt to develop a neuropsychological theory of attention which is compatible with contemporary theories of human information processing. (Author/RK)

Article considers the motivation for perceptual recognition and cognition in evaluating the reasons for reading difficulties of children. (RK)

Attempts to explicate styles of administration as well as underlying assumptions in American colleges and universities, emphasizing social roles and intergroup interaction, and presenting a model which may be used for an in-depth study of higher educational institutions. (Author/JM)