A bone conduction screening test was developed utilizing frontal bone oscillator placement. One hundred and fourteen preschool children were tested using a pure-tone air-conduction screening procedure, an impedance audiometry screening procedure (automatic tympanometry and ipsilateral reflex stimulation at 1000Hz), and the unoccluded bone conduction screening test. Unoccluded frontal bone conduction testing produced screening results that were not significantly different from results obtained utilizing impedance audometry.

Psychoeducational test scores from the clinical records of 360 children were factor analyzed and the results compared to factors cited in the literature as characterizing formal published neuropsychological test batteries such as the Halstead-Reitan and the Luria-Nebraska. The psychoeducational battery yielded five factors: Language, Academic Achievement, Visual Spatial, Attention and Memory, and Motor Speed. It was concluded that traditional psychoeducational test batteries could yield brain-behavior information similar to the neuropsychological batteries and might thus serve a legitimate screening function, enabling the psychoeducational specialist to provide relevant information to the neuropsychologist in referrals.Neuropsychological .batteries have become increasingly popular in determining brain-behavior relationships in children. Whether the purpose of testing is to discriminate brain dysfunctional children from normal children, aid in neurological diagnosis, measure progress, or provide data for designing rehabilitation programs, the assessment must cover a wide range of behaviors. Those behaviors generally include perception, comprehension, attention and memory, problem solving, expression, and motor functions among others. For years, traditional psychological tests have been used to assess many of these same behaviors. Discussion and debate has thus ensued concerning whether selected traditional psychoeducational tests could yield similar brain-behavior information as published neuropsychological batteries (Craig

A child psychiatrist had 446 children referred to him for a combination of behavioral and school performance problems. A uniformity of disorder persisted in the basic motor patterns of these children at rest and in activity.As a part of the complete psychiatric consultation, the children were tested for achievement and reading levels. From the total of 446 children a random sample of 33 children were then studied by psycholinguistic techniques to determine whether such an evaluation should be a routine part of the child's work up.Children are often referred for psychiatric evaluation for a combination of behavioral and school performance problems. Of the several profiles that could describe them, a uniformity of disorder persists in their basic motor patterns at rest and in activity. These children show a restlessness, often to the point of difficulty in sitting long enough to watch a T.V. program. Their attention span is short and they daydream at length. They leave school work unfinished and they usually do not perform well academically.

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Masking Level Difference (MLD) testing has become an important addition to clinical audiology test batteries. Although data are available relating the MLD to a variety of pathological conditions, little information exists dealing with learning disabled individuals. This study presents normative MLD data for a population of 90 learning disabled individuals. Implications for the auditory assessment of the Learning Disabled as well as for the establishment of "local" MLD norms are discussed.