Play in nursery school programs stimulates aurally handicapped students in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor dimensions and also provides opportunities for career exploration. (MC)

Tested the effectiveness of a 120-problem learning set for teaching simple classification skills to blind children, as compared to a general enrichment program administered to a matched control group. The learning set facilitated mastery of classification, indicating that this training can accelerate the acquisition of Piagetian concepts in…

The broad objective of this study then, is to attempt to discover whether a set of environmental variables presumably of significance for cognitive growth, generates similar factor structures across groups of varying socioeconomic status. (Author)

Conclusion drawn is that bilinguals, brought up in a one-person, one-language home environment, reach a stage in semantic development some 2-3 years earlier than their unilingual peers. (Author/CB)

Prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944-45 had no detectable effects on the adult mental performance of surviving male offspring; birth weight was not related to mental performance; and the association of social class with mental performance was strong. (AL)

Author describes a design which seeks to formulate curriculum into discrete but interactive spheres. (Author/CB)

Article cites four areas of consultant activities for university counseling services designed to offer students a greater opportunity for their psychological well-being. (Author/RK)

Author brings together from some major sources what we know about metaphor and suggests some questions for systematic study concerning children and metaphor. (Editor)

Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation; reports results of experiments in general cognitive development of children tested for their comprehension of the words more'' and less'' (RS)

Implications for teachers from Piagetian-oriented piagetian-oriented research on problem solving reported in an article by Eleanor Duckworth are presented. Edward de Bono's Children Solve Problems,'' a collection of examples, is also discussed. (MS)

Study to determine how early in the disadvantaged child's life intervention should take place in order to maximize the effectiveness of supplementary programs. (CB)