Excerpted from L'Osservatore Romano" of September 18, 1970. (DS)

Children who survive a severe episode of malnutrition early in life are handicapped in developing skills in reading and writing and are less able to profit from the cumulative knowledge available to man. This may lead to defective functioning, school failure, and subnormal adaptation. (DM)

Investigates the relative roles of positive and negative cue retention on oddity transfer, and seeks to learn how these roles change with age and practice. Age range studied is from 3 to 7 years old. (MH)

Comparison of college students and women with children results in two general patterns: greater use by former of active techniques involving direct manipulation of consequences: and decrease by former in use of love-oriented techniques which were negatively cast. Includes note on replication of previous finding (Marwell and Schmitt, 1967) on use…

Describe use by a psychological consultant to the schools (a) to collect observational data in order to complete referral information and formal test data, (b) to facilitate multiple consultation and (c) to provide models for test administration for teachers or paraprofessionals. (Author)

Indications are that verbal-sensory-perceptual ability can be raised during critical preschool years to improve chances for later learning. Measurement instruments were: Stanford-Benet, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception, Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, and Metropolitan Readiness Tests.…

Requests for reprints may be addressed to Dr. Donald Pollack, Psychology Department, San Diego State College, San Diego, California, 92115.

Examines how the two very different novels--"Millie's Boy" and "Father Figure"--treat the commonplace theme of the quest for mature identity in a similar but very uncommon fashion. (HOD)

Disfluency characteristics of 36 nonstuttering boys aged two, four, and six years were analyzed from tape recorded speech samples made during free play within neutral and stress situations. Comparisons of frequency of disfluency were made among the different ages within each situation and between the neutral and stress situations. (Author)

Assessments of play, sensorimotor, language, and general developmental skills were administered to two preterm and 20 full-term infants. Preterm infants showed some delays greater than would be predicted from biological maturity alone, but delays were not present for all skills and generally were not maintained beyond 2 years of age. (Author/RH)

Comparing developmental education for parents, parent education in child management, and a control situation, this study assessed treatment effectiveness in motivating parents to participate in home programs for developmentally delayed infants. Results indicated the superiority of the developmental program in terms of parent participation and…

The matrix of pre- and perinatal biological and sociocultural correlates are reviewed in relation to infants who are subsequently identified as gifted. (Author/CL)

Researchers from 18 different countries as well as representatives of UNICEF and UNESCO attended a conference on international perspectives in child development and social policy. Topics discussed included knowledge and ideology, goals of different social groups, communication problems, and the relationship of research to practice. Bibliographic…