The article reviews existing clinical tests of speech perception, describes behaviorally defined procedures for assessing the skill in normal and language disordered children, and notes the need for a more cohesive framework for the development of speech perception. (CL)

This article suggests the importance of structure and sequence in designing a program of map reading and interpretation. It focuses upon the use of maps on ever-decreasing scales, from the large scale topographical maps to small atlas maps, and the associated use of oblique aerial photographs. (Editor)

Sensory thinking is the process of bringing experienced aspects of the child's world into his focal awareness, usually through a medium such as language. (Author/IRT)

Sixty-two first graders were identified as high-risk learners and randomly assigned to one of three remediation techniques or a control treatment. (Author/DB)

Examines the interrelationships of task performances and developmental changes of 4-, 6-, and 8-year-olds. Significant developmental changes were observed on transposition, cue interference, and spatial memory. The pattern of intercorrelations between tasks suggested a high degree of correspondence across tasks. (ST)

The current study is a one-year follow-up of an earlier report that group counseling with institutionalized delinquent females resulted in significant gains in the connotative meanings of several concepts. (Author)

Author analyzes the process for developing the self of the fledgling teacher. Introduces the person-al'' approach to good teaching. (Author/RK)

Results of the present study suggest that the socialization of ethnic perception involves a number of agents and is not dependent exclusively on mothers' attitudes. (Authors)

Study of perceptual exploration was undertaken to see to what extent school experience would produce left-right patterns on several kinds of figures which have strong Gestalt properties. (Author)

These results support Piaget's position that preoperational children respond to the perceptual lack of equality but not to the lack of conceptual equivalence in class-inclusion problems. (Authors)

Author developed an instrument, called the Perceptual Index, which was designed to provide teachers of art with a valid and reliable measure of response to visual stimuli. (Author/MB)