After attending a rural compensatory preschool for 5 half days a week over 1 year, Australian aboriginal and white disadvantaged children, 5 to 6 years of age, showed substantial gains on tests of vocabulary, auditory association, grammtic closure, and operational thinking, and were later assessed in a followup study. (Author/MC)

The relationship between self ratings and teacher ratings of 100 children, 9 to 15 years of age, in classes for the educable mentally retarded was examined. (Author/MC)

It is maintained that special educators have been criticized for focusing strong intervention procedures such as isolation or punishment on elementary school children who have been labeled deviant or defective. (Author/MC)

The derivation and validation of teacher competencies for inclusion in competency based teacher education programs are examined and strategies for special education teacher training and research are suggested. (MC)

Described is the Professional Standards and Guidelines Project, sponsored by the Council for Exceptional Children, which is concerned with recruitment, preservice and inservice teacher education, accreditation, certification, professional practices, and ancillary personnel in special education. (MC)

Thirty-six learning disabled and 36 emotionally disturbed children in elementary school and 18 emotionally disturbed children in institutions were examined to determine whether four instruments would differentiate the handicapping conditions manifested by the groups. (MC)

Briefly described is a university project which trains foster mothers to train high risk children from birth to 5 years of age in gross motor, fine motor, personal-social, language, and perceptual cognitive areas of development. (MC)

Twenty-eight learning disabled children, 6 1/2 years of age, who lacked skills and maturity for first grade placement, were tested randomly, assigned to groups, and trained either in a sequence of activities to improve grouping and memory strategies (experimentals) or in a specialized program of art experiences (controls). (MC)

Forty-six nonretarded children in kindergarten through grade 2 were compared with 47 retarded children in primary through prevocational levels to determine the best predictors of behavior, explanation, and scores for conservation of two dimensional space, substance, continuous quantity, and weight. (MC)

Five groups of approximately 50 children, grades 2 through 6, from each of five schools (four in low socioeconomic mostly black areas), originally referred for 1 or 2 years' support in a behaviorally oriented resource room, were followed up after regular class placement for 2 or 3 years. (MC)

It is maintained that two weaknesses of current theories on etiology of learning disabilities are reliance on a single-cause model and assumption of a child's deficit; advanced is the explanation that defensive hyperactivity is a coping device of children who are anxious about forming relationships with others, particularly adults. (MC)

A multiple choice 18 item test was given to 86 educable retarded and 33 nonretarded adolescents and young adults to measure knowledge of simple issues and facts about the 1972 election. (MC)

Seven Mexican-American, Asian, American Indian, and Black specialists in the fields of special education, sociology, psychology, and linguistics responeded to questions on intercultural education. (LC)

The science of linguistics contributes to the study of cultural diversity and the education of exceptional children.

The article discusses the educational needs of the culturally different gifted child who is defined as a member of a culture other than the dominant culture who shows potential for outstanding achievement in any area of human endeavor. (LC)