The effectiveness of a compensatory education program is dependent upon the recognition and treatment of students' basic visual, auditory, or neurological development problems. (MN)

Suggests methods and materials for improving the perception abilities of young children. (NH)

Paper is based on a Master's Thesis submitted by the senior author to the Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, 1967. (IR)

Project of the Institute on School Learning and Individual Differences and The John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, George Peabody College for Teachers.

Comparison of 384 male and 91 female autistic children (three through eight years old) revealed that females as a group scored less well on intelligence tests. Boys also performed better than girls on eye-hand integration and perceptual tasks. Predictions of female superiority in affect and receptive vocabulary were not supported. (CL)

Educational psychologists frequently consider the arts to be emotive forms that might provide satisfaction--but not understanding. This article argues that if cognition is a matter of becoming aware, of perceiving, then the senses and the arts play a crucial role in providing essential resources for education. (Author/WD)

An Ames static trapezoidal window was used to test infants' responsiveness to pictorial depth. Sensitivity to the pictorial information for depth that is present in the trapezoidal window appears to develop after the age of 22 weeks. (Author/DB)

Indicates that spatial ability describes a variety of different behaviors and briefly reviews efforts to define intelligence factors and identify processes involved in solving tasks requiring spatial ability. (DS)