The experiment investigated the speech performance of 23 adult stutterers both in social isolation and while an investigator was with them. (CB)

Points out that in Sweden the expression educational technology is thought of in terms of a systematic approach to instruction. Outlines some of the major educational research facilities and activities in progress in that country. (LS)

School records of 20 adult females with severe depressive reactions, 35 of their siblings, and 49 matched controls were analyzed with regard to childhood IQ, scholastic failure, and last grade completed. (Author)

The U.S. Commissioner of Education describes the National Institute of Education, a national center for educational research. (LR)

Describes the operation and services of the Smithsonian Science Information Exchange (SSIE), an information storage-retrieval system, which will supply an individual inquirer with a summary of research projects in a specific area. Included in the system are life, physical, agricultural, behavioral, social, and engineering sciences. In the current…

Children's visual perception of the letters b and d when confronted with them for the first time was studied. (KW)

Occurrence of residual stutterings on adjacent words caused by blotting out words at random in a reading passage was studied. (KW)

Response cost (punishment) decreased stuttering below the baserate frequency for three adult male stutterers, but when reintroduced after pairing with reinforcement, one subject's rate of stuttering did not immediately decrease, suggesting that punishment for stuttering may acquire discriminative attributes after systematic pairing with a…