Attempts to define the concept of children's special needs and to appraise these within educational contexts. Identified areas of need and concern are linked with the scope and boundaries of parental involvement in assessment, intervention, and educational programing. (RH)

Clinically examined and interviewed 847 elementary students (ages six to 19 years) to determine their nutritional status and acceptance of school food. Findings indicated high prevalence of protein energy malnutrition and high rates of students coming to school with no food, nonacceptance of the school lunch, and strong preference for salty food.…

Relates the nutritional status of 1,378 hospitalized pediatric patients to length of hospitalization and definitive hospitalization diagnosis. Findings indicated the length of hospitalization time increased markedly with malnutrition, especially for patients with diarrhea. (BJD)

Studied the maternal plasmatic zinc behavior at delivery time and the cord blood zinc concentration from appropriate and low-birth-weight full-term infants and appropriate preterm infants. Findings indicated that neither prematurity nor fetal growth delay interfere in maternal or newborn infants' zinc levels. (BJD)

Analyzes effects of differentiated stimulation over the indexes of growth and development on severely malnourished children during their hospitalization and after being adopted. The sample consisted of 26 children who presented second and third degrees of malnutrition and who were younger than two years of age when adopted. (RH)

Investigates the influence of breast-feeding duration on the increase in weight of 365 children from birth to six months in the agro-industrial community of Pradopolis, Brazil. (RH)

Describes a relactation technique mainly based on intense psychological help and counseling, frequent and repeated suctions of the nipple to stimulate the production of prolactin, and complementary feeding to reinforce suction. (RH)

Describes a scheme consisting of nine elements or "themes" ordered in terms of their more probable links developed from clinical work with crying infants. Theme categories are genetic/hereditary, psychiatric disorder, central nervous system, medical health (chronic), medical health (acute), nutrition/allergy, form, psychosocial interaction, and…

Discusses several obstacles to staff/parent partnership and describes 13 ways of building and maintaining such a collaborative relationship. (RH)

Discusses (1) the process of early language development, giving specific attention to problematic aspects of a vocabulary for audition; (2) elicitation and instruction tasks used in the study of language acquisition; and (3) an investigation designed to compare language acquisition for dimensions of visual, spatial, and tactual perception with…

Investigates six demographic variables of 244 inservice preschool teachers and staff members to determine the variables predictive of the type of children's play materials adults preferred. (Author/RH)

Discusses ways of gathering social, medical, educational, intellectual, and personality data, and points out research needs. Two tables provide, respectively, an abuse data recording form and names and sources of training materials for the identification, assessment, and prevention of abuse of young children. (RH)