ABSTRACT
A group of 78 students from the second, third, and fourth grades rated color slides of 3 children with bilateral cleft lip, 3 children with unilateral cleft lip and 3 children with normal facial features on 15 independent semantic differential variables. Results indicated that children with cleft lip were viewed more negatively than the nonclefted children. The bilateral cleft lip group was rated more negatively than the unilateral cleft lip group on approximately half of the adjectival scales. The older judges rated the treatment groups higher than the younger judges on all except one of the variables. Implications for these findings are discussed.
Subject(s)
Attitude , Cleft Lip/psychology , Peer Group , Social Desirability , Child , Cleft Lip/surgery , Female , Humans , Male , Semantic Differential , StereotypingABSTRACT
Fifty-eight pairs of parents of cleft lip/palate children, and fifty-eight classroom teachers of the children rated the child's behavior along four dimensions: conduct, personality, inadequacy-immaturity, and socialized delinquency. Results indicated that mothers and fathers rated conduct problems, personality problems, and socialized delinquency problems to change as a function of the child's age. There were no significant differences between mothers' and fathers' ratings of behavior: however, teacher ratings differed significantly from the parents. Implications for these findings are discussed.
Subject(s)
Attitude , Child Behavior Disorders/psychology , Cleft Lip/psychology , Cleft Palate/psychology , Adolescent , Child , Child Development , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Juvenile Delinquency/psychology , Learning Disabilities/psychology , Male , Parent-Child Relations , Personality Development , Psychological Tests , Sex Factors , SocializationABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to familiarize the speech-language pathologist with the behaviors that critically and terminally ill persons demonstrate. To work effectively with these groups of individuals, it appears essential that the clinician know the dynamics of the psychological stages associated with physical crisis, disability, death, and dying. This information is becoming more relevant to the speech-language pathologist, particularly as his/her role as a member of a rehabilitation team providing direct services to the aged expands.
