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Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities Volume 17, Number 1 March 2005 CONTENTS Communication Quality Indicators: A Survey of Connecticut Group Home Managers Evelyn A. DeSimone and Paul W. Cascella Teacher Responses to the Communicative Attempts of Children With Autism Deb Keen, Jeff Sigafoos, and Gail Wocdyatt Interaction of Behavioral State and Microswitch Use in Individuals With Profound Multiple Impairments Bethany P. Mellstrom, Muriel D. Saunders, Richard R. Saunders, and Lesley B. Olswang What Are You Looking at? Joint Attention and Visual Perspective Taking in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Petra Warreyn, Herbert Roeyers, Tine Oelbrandt, and Isabel De Groote Prevalence of Axis I Psychopathology in an Intellectually Disabled Population: Type of Pathology and Residential Supports James Clay and Jay C. Thomas Stuttering as Reflected in Adults’ Self-Figure Drawings Rachel Lev-Wiesel, Ayala Shabat, and Ayala Tsur Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities Volume 17, Number 1 March 2005 CONTENTS Communication Quality Indicators: A Survey of Connecticut Group Home Managers Evelyn A. DeSimone and Paul W. Cascella Teacher Responses to the Communicative Attempts of Children With Autism Deb Keen, Jeff Sigafoos, and Gail Wocdyatt Interaction of Behavioral State and Microswitch Use in Individuals With Profound Multiple Impairments Bethany P. Mellstrom, Muriel D. Saunders, Richard R. Saunders, and Lesley B. Olswang What Are You Looking at? Joint Attention and Visual Perspective Taking in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Petra Warreyn, Herbert Roeyers, Tine Oelbrandt, and Isabel De Groote Prevalence of Axis I Psychopathology in an Intellectually Disabled Population: Type of Pathology and Residential Supports James Clay and Jay C. Thomas Stuttering as Reflected in Adults’ Self-Figure Drawings Rachel Lev-Wiesel, Ayala Shabat, and Ayala Tsur Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities Volume 17, Number 2 June 2005 CONTENTS Secretin in Children with <cutistic Disorder: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial Benjamin L. Handen and Dena Hofkosh Problem-Based Learning as a Valuable Educational Method for Physically Disabled Teenagers? The Discrepancy Between Theory and Practice Karen D. Koénings, Reinout W. Wiers, Margaretha W. J. van de Wiel, and Henk G. Schmidt Psychosocial Problems Among Siblings of Children with Disabilities in Japan: Psychosocial Association Between Mothers and Siblings Yuko Ishizaki, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Koji Ozawa, Yoshimitsu Fukai, Yuko Hattori, Shoichiro Taniuchi, and Yohnokuke Kobayashi A Play Package for Children with Severe Disabilities: A Validation C. J. E. Uys, E. Alant, and L. L. Lloyd Sexual Experiences of Adolescents with Low Cognitive Abilities in the U.S. Mariah Manisun Cheng and J. Richard Udry Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease: A Developmental Disorder Affecting Myelin Formation in the Nervous System E. Pretorius, H. Naudé, C. Ribbens, and M. C. Bosman Promoting Self-Determination Skills Among Youth with Special Health Needs Using Participatory Action Research Karen Burstein, Tanis Bryan, and Pen-Chiang Chao Deafness As Reflected in Self-Figure Drawings of Deaf People Rachel Lev-Wiesel and Jana Yosipov-Kaziav Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities Volume 17, Number 3 September 2005 CONTENTS The Relationship Between Depression and Feeding Disorder Symptoms Among Persons with Severe and Profound Mental Retardation Stephen B. Mayville, Johnny L. Matson, Rinita B. Laud, Chris Cooper, and David E. Kuhn Functional Analysis and Treatment of Joint Dislocation Associated with Hypermobility Syndrome: A Single-Case Analysis Anne R. Cummings and James E. Carr Electronic Technology: Hope for Rural Gifted Students Who have Motor Impairment of the Hands Frank P. Belcastro Communication Patterns of Primary Care Pediatricians, Parents, and Children with and Without Special Health Care Needs Karen Burstein, Tanis Bryan, Pen-Chiang Chao, Kevin Berger, and David Hirsch Age-Related Differences in Smiling and Personality in Down Syndrome Deborah J. Fidler, Karen Caplovitz Barrett, and David E. Most Peers’ Attitudes Toward Autism Differ Across Sociometric Groups: An Exploratory Investigation Jonathan M. Campbell, Jane E. Ferguson, Caitlin V. Herzinger, Jennie N. Jackson, and Christine Marino Comparing Selective Eaters with and Without Developmental Disabilities Keith E. Williams, Bridget G. Gibbons, and Kimberly A. Schreck Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities Volume 17, Number 4 December 2005 CONTENTS The Relationship Between Residence and the Pharmacological Management of Challenging Behavior in Individuals with Intellectual Disability Jane A. McGillivray and Marita P. McCabe Wheelchair-Bound Persons with Multiple Disabilities Learning to Use Simple Foot-—Leg Responses Within a Microswitch-Based Program Giulio E. Lancioni, Nirbhay N. Singh, Mark F. O'Reilly, Giorgia Piazzolla, Sara Pidala, and Doretta Oliva Evaluating Acquiescence to Yes—No Questions in Fear Assessment of Children With and Without Mental Retardation Sylvia Z. Ramirez Factors Influencing the Differential Diagnosis of Asperger’s Disorder and High-Functioning Autism Mark J. Sciutto and Cassandra Cantwell Naturalistic Inquiry and Treatment of Coprophagia in One Individual Daniel J. Baker, Steven Valenzuela, and Norman A. Wieseler What the Word Processing Skills of Prelingually Deafened Readers Tell About the Roots of Dyslexia Paul Miller Concordance of Physical Activity Among Parents and Youth with Physical Disabilities Chien-Yu Pan, Georgia C. Frey, Oded Bar-Or, and Patricia Longmuir The Neuropsychological Perspective on Autism Ryan T. Tonn and John E. Obrzut Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities is abstracted or indexed in Current Contents/Social & Behavior Sciences, Educational Research Abstracts Online (ERA) Fam- ily & Society Studies Worldwide, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Psychological Abstracts, PsychINFO Database, SCOPUS, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social SciSearch, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and The ISI Alerting Services.