Difficulty with adjustment to sexuality by adolescents has been of increasing concern to both educators and human service professionals in recent years. The cognitive development and behavior of adolescents as it pertains to sexuality and the implications for helping them overcome maladaptive sexual behavior is discussed. (Author)

Studied 2 1/2- to 6-year-old children's judgments of age category and relative age of stimulus faces, using a paired-comparison task. Faces showed variations in craniofacial profile shape, frontal face feature vertical placement, and facial wrinkling. (Author/NH)

Production frequency of exemplars for 16 categories was obtained from institutionalized mentally retarded adults and compared with those of nonretarded children, adolescents, and adults with the typicality ratings of the same retarded Ss. Production frequency of exemplars by retarded and nonretarded persons was remarkably similar. (Author/CL)

Twenty first-grade hearing Ss were significantly quicker than 16 grade-one and 23 grade-four deaf children to respond to changes in pictures presented to them and to demand an explanation. Of the deaf Ss, those who were less tolerant of ambiguity were more advanced in their development of social cognition. (CL)

Twelve nondisabled adolescents were superior to 12 learning disabled students in performance on all types of strategy transformations presented on simple arithmetic computation tasks. Significant ability-group differences emerged on reduction to answer, saving partial results, unit building, and alternative method transformations. Results…

Alternative ways of linking Piagetian theory to the teaching of reading are proposed, including a constructivist approach to reading and a fresh look at the capabilities of the preoperational child. (SK)

Results suggested that children with Downs Syndrome are at the same level of cognitive development as are nonretarded children at the onset of both comprehension and production of object names. Soon after language acquisiton begins, however, early vocabulary development of children with Down's Syndrome begins to lag behind their cognitive…

Fifty-five dyslexic and 30 normal readers (8-12 years old) were administered the K-ABC. Normal readers demonstrated significantly higher scores on the cognitive subtests of "Hand Movements,""Number Recall, Word Order," and "Matrix Analogies" as well as on each achievement subtest, the "Sequential" and…

The article outlines the parallel development of cognition and language and describes Piagetian-oriented assessment approaches. (CL)

Developmental stages in causal reasoning and causative expression are outlined to provide comparison with preschool handicapped children. Three stages within the preschool range are defined in terms of changes in causal schemes, field of centration, and experimental attitude and skills. Suggestions for assessment and special education are made.…

In three experiments young children were asked to reconstruct an array of objects after they had imagined its appearance following either a rotation of the array or a change in their own position. Results indicated that young children, although apparently egocentric, can imagine themselves in a new position with a new perspective. (Author/SB)

Several aspects of memory development are discussed within the framework of memory research: the development of representational abilities; the development of the propensity to represent; the development of mnemonic strategies; the development of a general information base; the development of familiarity with different types of stimulus…