A "Listening Word Concentration Game" for use by teachers to help children develop listening concentration skills is described. (STS)

A peer tutoring spelling game using social and token reinforcement, team competition, distributed practice, and error correction resulted in dramatically improved spelling performances by six learning disabled third graders. Eighteen average peers also benefited, although not to the same extent. (CL)

Oxygen consumption and heart rate were monitored in 32 male adults playing racquetball and squash. Results indicated that energy expenditure in racquetball was only slightly less than for squash, suggesting that either sport is appropriate for developing and maintaining fitness in healthy adults. (Author/CB)

The article briefly describes the role of CIVITAN International, a major service association in supporting with time and money the 1987 International Summer Special Olympics Games. (DB)

Describes how one teacher used a contest to motivate students and to increase their reading ability and knowledge of the subject being taught. (JOW)

This examination of the nature of communication between public library youth services managers and upper management stresses the need for middle managers to develop upward communication skills. Parallels are drawn with such games as "Risk,""Clue," and "Cat's Cradle," and 13 references are listed. (MES)

Activities to enhance reading with listening, thinking, writing, and fun are suggested. Topics include celebrate Reading Week, superbowl reading, book buddies, biography binge, laughing and learning, oral reading, reading sweepstakes, idea lists, fairy tale showdown, and parent reading tips. (MT)

Describes a class activity designed to teach students in grades five and six the importance of using an encyclopedia index. (MES)

The history of women's participation in the Olympics is reviewed briefly. Women in positions of leadership of the International Olympic Committee and other sport organizations are mentioned. The lives of Constance Applebee, Eva Auchincloss, Rusty Kanogi, and Wilma Rudolph are highlighted. (MT)

A game which introduces longer-distance runs while minimizing competition, helps develop skill in self-pacing, improves cardiovascular performance, and reduces stress is described. (MT)

Elementary school children are given cards containing specific criteria for doing one or two tasks: sorting or arranging rocks. Sorting tasks involve children in picking out rocks with particular characteristics, such as color or shape. In the arranging tasks children are asked to arrange rocks according to size or value. (RM)

A multiple-baseline, across-skills design demonstrated the effectiveness of a training program in increasing recognition of proverbal idioms by five hearing-impaired adolescents. The training program increased students' ability to correctly pair proverbs and trained descriptive passages. Generalization to untrained passages was also noted.…

Table games with special dice can help children with severe learning difficulties to improve their basic number skills (rote counting, numeral recognition, and counting out a quantity of objects from 1-200. Field testing supported the value of such games with 9- to 18-year-olds with moderate mental handicaps. (CL)

Two severely retarded adolescents who participated in self instructional training for increasing a complex social-leisure skill, game playing, learned to perform and verbalize the individual game steps. With minimum prompts and specific dyad training Ss were able to play the three games accurately in both situations. (CL)

Presents a group therapy game that allows for open discussion of the drug addict's lifestyle. Describes concepts, subjects (populations of narcotics addicts in residential treatment), rules of the game, and processing after the game. (BH)