The receptive and expressive language skills of 10 children with strokes due to sickle cell disease were significantly poorer than those of their matched controls. The children with strokes had greatest difficulty in following oral directions and formulating sentences.

8 subjects who exhibited the eating disorder of bulimia, when contrasted with 8 matched normal subjects, did not exhibit concomitant perceived vocal disorders.

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a! Liltle Rock Szrmmary.-Ambient noise levels in 28 of 30 universjty classrooms exceeded the level of 35 dBA as recommended by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Such noise levels may interfere with both teaching and learning.

This report describes a training program in which operant procedures were used to improve the identification and definition of selected vocabulary words in three developmentally delayed children. Generalization from the training words was well established, as determined by responses to untrained vocabulary performance words. The results of this procedure suggest its application with other developmentally delayed children.