Accomplishments during young adulthood of children originally diagnosed with minimal cerebral dysfunction: a ten-year follow-up study.

To gather data about the adult accomplishments of persons diagnosed with minimal cerebral dysfunction this retrospective study evaluated 57 subjects at ten-year follow-up. Two-thirds of the subjects graduated from high school with an average of 11.8 years of education. Factors correlating with educational outcome included intelligence quotient, age at initial evaluation, and parental socioeconomic status. Adult accomplishments appear related to intelligence and to the presence of family or behavior problems.

School psychologists' knowledge of children's legal rights.

School psychologists need a working knowledge of laws affecting children. This investigation was done to discover whether members of Ohio's school psychological association, including intern school psychologists who were functioning in a supervised capacity, are as knowledgeable about law as they need to be to avoid lawsuits. Participants completed a custom-designed questionnaire. Survey of Children's Legal Rights, including questions assessing knowledge of children's rights in relation to child abuse, suspension and expulsion, corporal punishment, rights in juvenile court, special education, freedom of religion and speech, search and seizure within school, divorce and child custody, school vandalism, and school attendance. Analysis indicated significant misconceptions about legal decisions; however, these school psychology practitioners have adequate legal knowledge about most of the surveyed themes excepting provisions for special education.

Generalization and maintenance of treatment gains using self-management procedures with behaviorally disordered adolescents.

Using reversal design (A-B-A-B) we investigated the effectiveness of self-management strategies to reduce disruptive, off-task behavior for three students from a self-contained classroom for behaviorally disordered students. Two were boys (ages 13 yr., 2 mo. and 14 yr., 4 mo.) and one a girl (age 13 yr., 3 mo.). The study investigated the maintenance and generalizability of treatment gains in a regular education setting. Parallel changes of self-concept influenced by the self-management procedures were also measured. Results strongly support that self-management techniques reduce off-task behavior, generalize to regular education settings, and help maintain treatment gains. Also, behavioral self-concept was markedly improved to within normal limits with the implementation of self-management procedures.

Visual imagery: joining images to create new shapes of varying complexity.

36 volunteers were randomly assigned to three experimental conditions following successful completion of a custom designed vividness of imagery pretest. They were timed on the task of completing a visual image created by joining together visual shapes functioning like "puzzle pieces." A significant linear relationship between difficulty and time to perform operations was found; men and women performed similarly.

Right-hemisphere linguistic functioning.

This review examined the linguistic processing abilities and potential of adults' nondominant hemisphere. Relevant literature was reviewed for experimental evidence of qualitative and quantitative differences in language functioning between the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Selected studies representing typical methodologies and subjects were included.

Procedures and problems in behavioral training for parents.

Parent-mediated programs in behavior modification are routinely prescribed for parents whose children exhibit inappropriate behavioral repertoires. Empirical evidence exists in abundance to support the efficacy and utility of alternative procedures for handicapped and normal children with a variety of academic, social, and behavioral difficulties. Specific and general reservations are reviewed, with considerations for the prescription and implementation of behavioral training programs for parents. Regard is given to the attractive nature of parents' self-instructional behavioral approaches.