Article is a literature review, but a literature review with definite policy implications. It concerns the widespread use of amphetamines in the nation's schools to control a syndrome which doctors and medical researchers call "hyperkinetic behavior disorder," or "minimal brain dysfunction," and which teachers and parents know as "hyperactivity".…

Examined the nature of teacher responses to preschoolers' problem and preacademic behavior as a function of sex. Teachers generally responded more frequently to boys. (ST)

Describes a summer camp for children with learning and adjustment to school problems. Behavior modification is the basis of the remediation program. (ST)

These results lend additional support to the theorized importance of parental identification in the early development of behavior disorders. (Author)

The results of this study indicated that there is no substantive evidence to support the hypothesis that teachers' perceptions of children as emotionally disturbed can be modified through the application of the Rosenthal effect. (Author)

How one elementary school calmed down its hectic lunchroom periods. (SP)

Article provides a definition for diagnosing children as autistic and describes the positive effect behavior modification has had on the education of the autistic child. (Author/RK)

Two teachers ventured to do some prescriptive teaching with students having a history of disruptive behavior. (Author/RK)

The Self-Instruction Center is the name given to the location for students who participate in an experimental project at Webber Junior High School in Saginaw, Michigan for students experiencing behavioral as well as learning difficulties. (Authors/CB)

The organization of the self-help program for adolescents at Mendocino State Hospital is structured to provide a continuing growth experience for its residents through the strategic use of role relationships, status positions and other social reinforcers. (Authors)

Article shows four basic approaches for using discipline and nine strategies for preventing discipline problems in the classroom. (RK)

Reports research attempting to test the labelling theory" approach to deviance by comparing a publically deviant" group of seventh, eighth, and ninth grade pupils with a similar group of pupils with no known history of delinquency. (JM)

It is argued that developmental task analysis is of primary value in the psychoeducational programming of children with learning and behavioral problems. (Author)