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The purpose of this report is to share the experiences and concerns of a group of parents of children with learning disabilities. Parents of eight different families were interviewed in depth, and seven themes emerged from the interviews. Parents discussed their involvement in their child's education, and their positive and negative experiences with school personnel as well as with seeking other sources of support. They expressed concerns about the social isolation and future well-being of their children with learning disabilities. They indicated many emotional strains from parenting children with learning disabilities, and that there are both positive and negative effects on the families. Implications for further research and practice are discussed.

The specific focus of this study was on parent and teacher relationships, when a child is gifted. The study addressed two interrelated questions. (1) What is the parent's perspective of the relationship between parent and teacher when a child is gifted? (2) What is the teacher's perspective of the relationship between parent and teacher when a child is gifted? Five parents and four teachers were interviewed individually on several occasions, and the interview content was analyzed thematically. For parents, five themes were identified, related to instructional programming, teacher competencies, curriculum needs, parental involvement in their children 's education, and problematic behavior. For teachers, there were also five themes, including identification of giftedness, funding issues, communication issues, partnerships in education, and impact on the children. The parent and teacher themes are reported in greater detail elsewhere (Penney & Wilgosh, 1998). This paper addresses the four overlapping themes derived from a comparison of the parent and teacher themes: funding issues, meeting the children's needs, communication, and impact on the children. Implications for fostering parent and teacher partnerships are discussed.

Subjects who were immobilized for a week but otherwise were exposed to a normal and varied sensory environment showed intellectual and perceptual deficits similar in many respects to those occurring after prolonged visual and auditory deprivation. A significant change in the electroencephalogram was also observed.