Forty special education majors (graduate and undergraduate) completed a survey on perceptions of problems and needs in educating minority handicapped children. Perceptions were assessed via 32 items in four major areas: sociocultural factors, identification and evaluation, instruction, and future opportunities. Findings were reported according to…

Using Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test, Elementary II Level and WISC Verbal Performance and Full Scale IQs of 40 white children, correlations of .71, .57 and .73, respectively, were computed. Results suggest IQs and should be interpreted with caution when used as criterion for identifying mentally retarded white children. (Author)

Describes a supplementary first-year chemistry course offered to selected students also enrolled in the regularly scheduled first-year chemistry course.

Concludes that the hierarchical factor solution described in the present study should be considered as one of several alternative conceptual systems for considering performance on the "Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised" (WISC-R). (RB)

Using data from formal interviews, participant observation, and attitudes scales, the nature of Black Nationalism among Northwestern University students is investigated together with life experiences that seem to correlate with these black nationalist orientations. Recommendations for future research are offered. (EH)

Shame becomes inevitably bound up with the process of identity formation. The experience of shame is a fundamental sense of being defective as a person, accompanied by fear of exposure and self-protective rage. The shame-inducing process involves one significant person breaking the interpersonal bridge with another. (Author)

An analysis of the Seven Principles of the Black Value System (as created by Maulana Ron Karenga and further developed by Imamu Amiri Baraka) and a discussion of how these values are taught to black children at the Ahidiana Work Study Center in order to provide a sense of identity and purpose to their lives. (EH)

An analysis of the dynamics involved in the process of attaching labels of inferiority to black children, in terms of the function which this mechanism serves for the dominant group and the consequent deleterious psychological effects on the children. (EH)

This paper describes an attempt to incorporate the social psychological phenomenon of trait inference into existing developmental theory - principally the developmental system of Piaget. This goal is accomplished by examining the trait of inferences of children developmentally to establish the structural requirements of the process in terms of…

This report describes the Integrated Services Consultant Model (ISCM) and the strategies used in implementing the model in 12 elementary schools in southern California. A reprint from the November 1986 issue of "Focus on Exceptional Children" of an article by Lenny Reisberg and Ronald Wolf titled "Developing a Consulting Program in…