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Forty-two brain injured boys and 42 non brain injured boys (aged 11-6 to 12-6) were tested to determine the effects of increasing amounts of visual and auditory distraction on reading performance. The Stanford Achievement Reading Comprehension Test was administered with three degrees of distraction. The visual distraction consisted of either very few items per page, a normal amount of items, or pages with a superimposed jigsaw puzzle design; the auditory distraction was supplied by a tape recording of school sounds. Distractions did not affect the reading performance of either group, did not affect the brain injured any more than the normal, and there was no trend for comprehension to decrease concomitantly under combined increases of visual and auditory distractions. The high dual distraction negatively affected the non brain injured group more than the brain injured group. The conclusion was that the basic assumptions of teaching materials and methodology for brain injured children should be reevaluated. (Author/JM)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert