This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) reading comprehension and visual creativity; (2) family interaction and reading achievement in high school males; (3) conceptual tempo, Piagetian level of cognitive development, and reading achievement; (4) sex role identity and reading achievement in elementary school children; (5) left and right brain hemisphere processing specialization and the implications for the Satz maturational lag model of specific reading disability; (6) critical reading skill and selected predictors for gifted sixth grade students; (7) the effect of mobility on reading achievement; (8) phonetic recoding and verbal rehearsal strategies in reading disabled students; (9) dentition as a predictor of reading readiness, readiness, and reading achievement; (10) the effects of locus of control and intrinsic motivation on the reading ability of children; (11) syntactic development in normal and dyslexic children; (12) reading correlates among groups of adolescent readers; (13) upper elementary school children's skills in classifying and inferring and their achievement in reading comprehension and vocabulary; and (14) nonverbal cognitive abilities and reading proficiency. (FL)