A review of research literature in the area of male roles and middle age suggests that adherence to the traditional male role may be deleterious to readjustment during middle-age transitions. Traditional roles require men to have characteristics that are questioned during the middle years. (Author)

Twenty-four elementary school children ranging in age from 7 to 10 years identified tachistoscopically presented arrays varying in length and degree of orthographic constraint. (Author/MP)

Teenagers were questioned regarding perceived quality of parenting , personal adjustment, and political-social-personal attitudes and values. Those who perceived their parents as below average tended toward an adversarial orientation to adults and adult values. Mutual disidentification between parent and child may be an early cause of adolescent…

Argues that the invention of self-report procedures could have resolved the crime measurement problem by showing consistency in results across methods, and that it did not resolve the problem because of misinterpretation of self-report findings. Illustrates arguments by using sex, race, and social class as examples. (Author/GC)

Contrary to popular assumptions, divorce backgrounds were not predictive of lower scores on measures of ego development, locus of control, and identity achievement. (Author)

Focus is on a conceptualization of initial assessment and consultation, the problem-solving paradigm as a framework for guiding this activity, and a description of procedures and initial data from a demonstration program. (Author/DLS)

Thirty elementary school teachers and 30 pediatricians completed a questionnaire regarding frequency and definitiveness of 13 diagnostic techniques used in learning disabilities (LD) medical evaluations. (CL)

If volunteers are to be effective, they must perform needed tasks, have a clear job description, a sense of importance, a schedule for completion, and an understood term of office. Identifying, recruiting, and training fund-raising volunteers are discussed. Annual giving specialists are classified as leaders, personal solicitors, class agents,…

Results of this study indicate that female offspring develop personality types more congruent with their parental-pair type. Degrees of congruence between male offspring and their parents' personality types conform to chance expectation. (Author)

The history of concern over bias in testing is briefly reviewed, along with relevant legislation and litigation. The idea of using adaptive behavior as a nondiscriminatory assessment test criterion is examined. (DLS)

Children from intact families and children from divorced families had self-concepts that correlated significantly with their evaluations of their mothers and fathers/stepfathers. Children whose parents had been divorced less than two years had self-concepts strongly correlated with evaluations of both their natural fathers and their stepfathers.…

Audiological assessment of 86 children (mean age 38 months at last evaluation time) with congenital cytomegalovirus infection revealed progressive hearing loss in four of 12 Ss with sensorineural hearing impairments. Case descriptions documented the progression of the hearing loss. (Author)

The article reports on a national survey of state education agencies regarding the use and status of learning disability professionals in schools, and discusses the reasons for and implications of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) not specifically mandating their presence on evaluation teams. (DLS)

Traditional beliefs, values, and attitudes are being restructured by society, which deeply affects the role of the female adolescent. This article discusses these effects on the experience of the contemporary White American middle class female older adolescent (16-20 years old) in relation to the changing role of women. (Author/KC)

The kindergarten and first grade characteristics of 47 intermediate grade educationally handicapped (EH) students were compared with characteristics of a group of normally achieving controls. (CL)