Reviews recent research in the treatment and cause of hyperactivity in children. (SL)

Reports that a number of minor physical anomalies, assessable soon after birth, are significantly related to a cluster of behaviors at age three that are frequently labeled hyperactivity. (SL)

Discussion of U.S. Supreme Court decision (Ingrahm V. Wright) asserting that the Constitution's Eighth Amendment does not protect school children against cruel and unusual punishment and that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not require notice and a hearing prior to the imposition of corporal punishment in the public…

Amphetamines and other stimulant drugs are not causing so-called "paradoxical effects" in hyperactive children but are actually effective because they provide needed stimulation. According to the Swanson-Brodemus Model, amphetamines, et al., provide internal sources of stimulation, thus reducing the need for external stimulation. (Author)

A program of home visits was developed through the Crisis Intervention Unit of the Department of Psychiatry of Toronto East General Hospital in order to provide alternative clinical counselling for psychiatric patients. Preliminary results suggest that home visits have considerable implications for the development of suicide prevention services.…

Investigated with six highly active 4- and 5-year-old Caucasian boys (three Ss labeled by teachers as hyperactive and three controls) was the extent to which inappropriate behaviors and differences in attention span provoked teachers to differentiate between highly active and hyperactive children. (IM)

Documented are the difficulties found in the use of ignoring and/or time-out procedures by parents of children with behavior problems in the home setting. (Author/IM)

To assess relations between behaviors in a particular circumscribed caretaker-child interaction setting and child behavioral dispositions assessed by more extensive observation, caretaker-child interaction data was collected for 40 children across several days in a nursery school free-play setting. These data were related to child behavioral…

Discusses research conducted into the development of well-adjusted children reared in disadvantaged homes and environments. (SL)

Students repeatedly urged to try harder often suffer from deficits in learning mode that must be identified and remediated specifically before academic performance will improve. (JG)

Described is the program provided by Behavior Management Services, an agency designed to help parents of retarded children with problem behaviors. Available from: Journal of Practical Approaches to Developmental Handicap, 3304-33rd Street N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 2A6. (SBH)

Three groups of learning disabled boys, 23 hyperactives, 25 normoactives, and 14 hypoactives, as well as 31 controls, were studied in grade school, and reevaluated at age 14. (Author/MH)

Both the experimental group (receiving positive feedback) and the social skills group (receiving special social skills training) showed significant reduction in absentee rates in relation to the no-treatment control group. (MB)