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The discourse skills of four boys with a unilateral hearing impairment (UHI), aged 7·2-10·7 years, were appraised over a 2-year period by examining their oral narrative use. All subjects exhibited delayed narrative skills, including features typical of children with a language disorder. These findings of language difficulties within this population were at variance with previous findings showing that children with UHI do not experience language problems. The subjects' language skills were discussed in relation to their academic performance. The implications of the findings for the process of narrative assessment were also discussed.

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A retarded child with a high stereotyped rocking rate was conditioned to pull a ball on a reinforcement schedule in which the fixed ratio aof rewarded to nonrewarded responses was 100. Results show no rocking movements during ball-pulling; but when ball-pulling was on extinction, rocking returned to its original rate. Chlorpromazine blocked rocking movements during extinction, but had no effect on ball-pulling. Delivery of one free reinforcer was sufficient to reinstate ball-pulling after extinction, but the stimulus properties of the free reinforcer were not affected by the drug.

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