The article describes the capabilities and features of basic microcomputer systems and describes special education applications: computer assisted instruction, prosthesis, testing, communication, and enhancing personal relations. Problems such as the availability of authoring languages, high quality educational software, and computer safety are…

Differences in standards for identifying gifted students in the elementary and secondary schools can cause problems. These usually result from an emphasis on interdisciplinary units of study in the elementary grades and tightly structured departmentalized middle/junior high schools. (DB)

This study examines the feasibility of predicting child abuse and neglect by screening parents during the perinatal and the early neonatal periods. (Author/EB)

The article describes the experiences and personal growth of Gregory Witcher, a Black high school student from Washington, D.C., as he confronted the largely White world at Phillip Exeter Academy and later at Williams College. (SB)

Due to such factors as increased geographic mobility and the use of several specialists rather than one family doctor, the identification of handicaps among children has become increasingly difficult. Cooperation among local, state, and federal agencies is necessary to meet the health and education needs of all children. (RJG)

The study involving 54 children (10 to 15 years old) was concerned with identification of conceptual functioning as an avenue of differentiating between auditory processing problems and primary ego development difficulties within the context of appropriate instructional/remediation strategies. (Author/SBH)

Students selected as emotionally handicapped reported themselves to be tense, frustrated, and driven. They had irrational worries, and were sensitively aware of being criticized. Selected students lacked superego strength and emotional stability. Clear differences between primary and intermediate teachers' perceptions of emotionally handicapping…

Presents findings of research that studied the influence of television's behavioral models on young Puerto Rican children, including (1) types of models children chose; (2) their perceptions and moral judgments of the appropriateness of certain types of antisocial behavior; and (3) occupational aspirations and their perceptions of Puerto Rican…

Three specific areas of interest in research on interracial classroom interaction are: (1) interracial friendship patterns and their boundaries; (2) teacher behavior in relation to student race; and (3) the effects of group dynamics on interracial acceptance. (CMJ)

Reports a study showing that subjects can make discriminative judgments about a speaker's sex and race from his tape-recorded speech. Filtering the speech signal adversely affects race but not sex identification. Listener accuracy and confidence for sex judgments are greater than for race judgments. (PMJ)

A clinical experience program for student nurses provides a unique learning experience for the students and a service to the community. Components include classroom observation, screening skills, community assessment, home visits, classroom teaching, and field trips. (CJ)

Analyzed WISC-R profiles along a three-factor approach for purposes of differential diagnosis. Profiles of 278 school-verified learning disabled children were compared to those of Educable Mentally Impaired (N=141), Emotionally Impaired (N=67), Otherwise Impaired (N=61), and Nonimpaired (N=294). Resulting data was not useful in differential…

Community is defined and several methods, ranging from formal research to informal observation, that can be used by a college or university to learn about the community are described. Identifying the influentials in the community is seen as essential. (Author/MLW)

A field test was initiated with kindergarten and first grade classes (558 children) within four urban elementary schools to determine the validity of identifying young handicapped children (5 to 7 1/2 years of age) through a frequency sampling technique. (Author/MP)

A five-scale instrument developed from a theoretical model of college attrition correctly identified the persistence/voluntary withdrawal decisions of 78.5 percent of 773 freshmen in a large, residential university. Findings showed that student relationships with faculty were particularly important. (Author/PHR)