Examines whether relationships can be demonstrated between specific infantile comfort habits and later personality development. Results suggest that children with a persistent oral habit at age 4 may later (at age 11 and 16) be less emotionally "well-adjusted" and more difficult for their parents to influence and control. (MP)

Tests the hypotheses that dyslexic subjects find it difficult to process spoken sounds and that this difficulty contributes to their reading disorder. Results obtained from 16 adolescent and adult dyslexic patients, 10 of whom had been studied from childhood, provided support for these assumptions. (MP)

Triadic interactions between mother, preschool-age first-born, and 14-month-old second-born siblings were studied in 40 families as part of a longitudinal study using home observations. Interaction between mother and second-born exerted an important influence on the behavior of the first-born. (Author/RH)