Given the limited use of social competence assessments by teachers, this article briefly reviews three assessment strategies for preschool children, developmental and curriculum-based assessment, direct observation, and peer relations and friendship assessment. A modified performance-based assessment of peer-related social competence is…

Sixty-four authorities on gifted education responded to five questions about issues in the field of gifted education. Common responses were: a need for consensus on how to define, conceptualize, and identify giftedness; new procedures to increase the representation of gifted minority students; and the importance of translating research on…

Discusses some ideas for applying information and communication technology (ICT) to constructing identification keys. Proposes the use of linked web pages as the most easily used and readily accessible for students aged 12-13. (DDR)

In this interview, Dr. Abraham Tannenbaum, an author and leader of numerous research projects concerning gifted and talented students, discusses homeschooling, the impact of charter schools, magnet schools, and school choice on gifted education, the Ganiech psychosocial definition of giftedness, and the development of gifted programs. (Contains 7…

The reliability, validity, and clinical utility of the Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale in the diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorders are reviewed. While the measure holds promise as a research tool, there appears little evidence that it can distinguish among the variety of types of pervasive developmental disorders, or diagnose Asperger…

The ideological basis for education of children with deafness has changed during the last few decades. In Norway, the new curriculum is emphasizing bilingual and bicultural ideas. Using an excerpt of an interview with a secondary student, this article discusses problems that arise when heavily emphasizing a cultural approach. (Contains 10…

Czechoslovakia's talented youth in the natural and technical sciences are served through identification and developmental activities in elementary and secondary school; postsecondary opportunities in universities, the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and the Slovak Academy of Sciences; and the School for Young Talents, which prepares future…

The Academically Gifted Project in Greensboro, North Carolina, sought to increase racial/ethnic group representation in an elementary school's Academically Gifted Program by enhancing referral and evaluation procedures rather than lowering or changing requirements for identification. This paper describes the project's development, procedures used,…

Suggests use of Gordon Allport's "The Nature of Prejudice" as basis for diagnosing the degree of prejudice expressed on a high school campus. Describes five degrees of negative actions that individuals may manifest in the expression of prejudice. Recommends assessment and encouragement of curriculum development that attempts to deal…

Explored whether racial identity attitudes of 166 Black college students were predictive of their attitudes toward counseling and counseling centers. Found that racial identity attitudes significantly predicted four of five counseling attitudes. Discusses implications of findings suggesting that underutilization of counseling services by Black…

Evaluates five themes of the race debate in education and social work: identity, assimilation, compensatory provisions, pathology, and integration/cultural pluralism. Outlines a broad approach to multi-cultural, anti-racist child practice. (Author/BB)

Developmental language disorders in preschool children are described. Levels of linguistic functioning are defined, and clinical language disorders are presented. Implications for the school psychologist are discussed, with an emphasis on assessment of verbal and non-verbal functions. (SLD)

Black Americans seeking to choose an African name are confronted by several issues growing out of internalized oppression. African identity carries with it connotations of slavery, ethnic duality, socioeconomic limitation, primitivism, and racial stereotyping. The right of naming themselves is seen as a crucial step toward liberation for African…

The two most important Black children's magazines of the twentieth century, published in the 1920s and the 1970s, met with untimely ends, and the entire body of Black children's literature may be diminishing. This lack hampers Black children's adaptation to White society and thwarts White children's comprehension of Black experience. (AF)

Compared to 19 controls, 21 dyslexic boys, age 11-18, were as successful in naming parts of objects in drawings, and they had no distinctive difficulty over homophones or homographs. However, subjects did produce more distortions of words, examples of inappropriate usage, incomplete sentences, repetitions, and other errors. (Author/JDD)