A bibliography on education and mental health covers the following topics: social change; factors affecting children; parent roles; preschool children; factors affecting learning readiness; pedagogic methods; curriculum; special problems; adolescence; integration and needs of special groups; developing countries; and general references and…

A personal story from a mother who was glad she chose to keep her multiply handicapped son at home rather than place him in a residential institution. (ST)

This paper attempts to relate the needs of lecturers and students of developmental psychology in introductory courses, of teachers, parents and lay discussion groups, to recently published and widely available books. (Author/KM)

This follow-up to a previous article (Orbit 14, pp. 8-11), describes and analyses some present educational applications from Piaget's theories (revised curricula, new assessment procedures, the readiness and self-discovery approach) and some possible future influence in teaching methodology. (JA)

This study reports the results of a factor analysis that prepared the way for the utilization of MSCA, which is designed to measure the developmental level of children aged 2 1/2 to 8 1/2 in a variety of areas. (Author/RK)

This study was designed to investigate the developmental aspects of performance by a group of normal children on tasks constructed to measure auditory figure-ground perception, and to compare this function with academic achievement. (Author)

Paper based on theoretical notions involving the child-family system, the intervention process, and broader societal concerns; included also are projections of current political, economic, and social realities that threaten future intervention efforts. (Author/CB)

The Office of Child Development and the Office of Education have established a joint Education for Parenthood program that has developed a formal curriculum in parenting which combines classroom instruction with actual work with children. (GB)

Reports of recent studies refute the idea that learning deficiencies in infancy are irreversible; Kagan suggests that we begin educating for humanism'' rather than intellectual ability. (SP)

The early stimulation program provided for low-birth-weight, disadvantaged infants was shown to be effective in promoting behavioral development. (Authors)

The major findings were that responses to the instrument correlated significantly with observed maternal behavior and predicted the child's intellectual growth in preschool. (Author)

In the U.S.S.R., research is carried out on the part played by books and libraries in the development of schoolchildren. Studies are undertaken on children as actual or potential readers and on methods for guiding their reading. The organization of research work in children's libraries is described. (Author/SJ)