The performance of elementary school children on tasks requiring right and left hemisphere function was investigated and asymmetries in hemisphere function were discovered. (MP)

Compared intrachild variability of five-year-old children on the Primary Mental Abilities Test when subjects reached their fifth birthday after completing at least two years of preschool enrichment. Conclusions, although qualified on the basis of limited sample size, revealed wider intrachild variability with minority children. (Author)

Maintains that listening to storytelling is an important developmental experience for young children, and provides suggestions and information on techniques for telling traditional, personal experience, and personal imagination stories. (CM)

This study of young men from two-child families shows that birth-order effect and level of ability were not influenced by length of interval between firstborn and secondborn. (MP)

Describes the program of the Demonstration and Training Center for High Risk or Mentally Retarded Infants of Teenage Mothers (ITAM), which aims at providing stimulation to the high-risk infant in order to enhance his/her development, and to offer educational and supportive programs for the teenage mother. (CM)

A sample of 42 children, age 5 to 7, were tested for their ability to give appropriate causal accounts of incidents and to consider intentions and motives in judging the characters involved in these incidents. Results indicated that children are able to consider intention before they develop the ability to consider motives in moral judgment.…

Examines how children react to certain aspects of traditional language, the implications of current findings in language research, and what is happening in the "real world" with respect to language changes. (Author/RK)

Can a child's ability to read and write be influenced by early musical training? Audrey Wisbey's views on the subject have aroused considerable interest. (Editor)

This study chronicles the process in which a young child teaches herself to write the letters of the alphabet. (HOD)

Reviews Bruno Bettelheim's "The Uses of Enchantment." (Author/SB)

The author examines the relationships existing between movement and cognition in child development. (MJB)

This study constitutes the beginning of a longitudinal investigation of phonological development of four children from birth to 2 years. Little variation was found in mean fundamental frequency. Duration, within-utterance range and variability did show developmental change. (RM)

Children can be encouraged to take an interest in art at a very early age, says Harlan Hoffa, professor of art education at the Pennsylvania State University. Discusses some key steps in fostering an interest in art in the child. (Editor/RK)

The intent of this paper is to demonstrate that the standard age effect in analysis of variance provides an ineffective means of assessing developmental change when several age levels are involved and a roughly monotonic trend can be expected. (Author)

A study of a call-in telephone service in Raleigh, North Carolina, which provides developmental guidance, referral, and general information to parents indicated continuous increase in use over a three-year period. Most frequent calls were about negative behavior, development, and toileting. Callers interviewed at follow-up reported a high degree…