Provides teachers with an understanding of how sighted children develop concepts about print and how blind children develop concepts about braille. Prereading activities designed to extend young children's concepts about print are adapted for blind children. (HTH)

The pediatrician has a primary responsibility for guiding parents through the early diagnostic phase and helping them cope with the multiplicity of ongoing and emerging medical problems that tend to arise. In addition, pediatricians can assist parents to become more confident and competent in relating to their handicapped children (Author)

A review of research examines the relationship between visual perceptual skills and reading achievement using meta-analysis to integrate statistically the results from 161 studies. It was concluded that visual perceptual skills should be included in the complex of factors predictive of reading achievement. (Author)

Using plastic letters and capitalizing on tactile cues can help reading disabled students sort out perceptual confusions. Three case studies depict the tactile approach's value in teaching reading and spelling as well as in promoting generalization. (CL)

References to the similarities between X2 statistical test and Weber's Law help to introduce psychology students to statistics. Although the two ideas have significantly different theoretical basis, their shared focus on thresholds of perceptible differences help students relate other psychological concepts to apparently alien statistical…

The Triangular Constant Method was designed for the measurement of discriminability between sensory stimuli. Its original model assumes a steady excitatory detection state. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the consequences of assuming a variable exicitatory state and to formulate the concomitant model. (Author)

Investigated the correspondence between stage changes hypothesized by the Kubler-Ross theory and the perception of the course of illness by seriously ill patients and their spouses. Supported the use of Q-methodology as a research procedure for investigations of terminal illness. (Author)

Personal beliefs and opinions regarding enrolling at university were obtained from 147 residents to test ability of a consumer/marketing theory of behavioral intention to account for factors related to college enrollment motivation. Analysis of the perceived quality of education revealed factors that were different from enrollment motivational…

Values of drug users were measured using the Rokeach Value Survey. The values the drug users espoused and perceived to be in opposition to society's values formed three themes: tranquility, aesthetics, and humanism. Although this group was perceived as deviant, they adhered to the literal meaning of these cultural ideals. (Author/BEF)

Examined therapist and client perceptions of transcripts of psychotherapy--one using facilitative conditions as treatment and one using them as intermediate variables leading to assertive training. For therapists, assertive training was estimated as more effective. The behavioral therapist was seen as more expert. For clients, no significant…

Examined effects of counselor attire on clients' state anxiety, willingness to self-disclose, and counselor preference. Counselor attire was traditional, casual, and highly casual. Clients experienced lower anxiety with counselors in casual v highly casual attire. No differences emerged between traditionally and casually attired counselors. Client…

Investigated possibility that psychotherapeutic styles might differ as function of A-B type or experience. Importance of experience level of therapist was confirmed by therapists' self-descriptions. Experienced therapists conformed less to conventional stereotypes of traditional psychotherapist than did inexperienced therapists. Experienced…

Results of this study supported the position that higher-order job perceptions and job satisfaction are reciprocally and dynamically related, where variables representing one construct reflect causal influences of the other construct. While the job perception-job satisfaction relationship appeared to be reciprocal, it did not appear to be…

In this study husbands were perceived as more psychologically healthy when they had children than when they had no children. Wives were liked less and viewed more negatively on general personality descriptors when they were described as voluntarily childless than when they were involuntarily childless. (Author)

Reviews selected research on personal and family stress and outlines some of the most effective strategies for stress management. Topics include effective management strategies for individuals, families under stress, stress pile-ups, conflicting role expectations, and effective coping strategies for families. (CT)