Abstract: While it is important that Australian teachers are made aware of their failures in teaching many Aboriginals to master literacy (Salmond, 1977; Duncan, 1974) there is a danger of developing a general expectancy that children of Aboriginal descent will be poor performers at school. Resnick and Robinson (1974) emphasize the influence of parent and teacher expectations on the expectations of the children themselves. Teachers’ expectations are particularly important for Aboriginals learning academic skills at school. It is the teacher who can grade learning tasks to ensure the child gains success through his own personal effort, a fundamental experience if low expectations are to be raised (Gurin and Gurin, 1972). The purpose of this paper is to examine data from the ACER Literacy and Numeracy study of Australian 10 and 14 year olds in 1975, as it relates to the Aboriginals in the sample. On the basis of this evidence it should be possible to draw some conclusions about the successes and failures of Aboriginal pupils in reading and numeracy.

Abstract: The provision of aids is directly related to the functional ability of the patient which changes as their clinical condition improves or deteriorates. It is not surprising .therefore that some aids are temporary following an acute episode or orthopaedic surgery. The fluctuating nature of rheumatoid arthritis necessitates regular reassessment of the aids and appliances provided, and sometimes a change of aids when the disease is particularly aggressive.

Abstract: A reproduction of the second and fourth in a series of ten seminars given by Professor Bruce Archer in the academic year 1976-7 under the title A Philosophy for Design. The paper explores the idea that there is a third area of human knowing, after literacy and numeracy, which we might call 'wroughting and wrighting'. It makes the case that this third area be given proper esteem and resources at secondary-school level, and be considered worthy of study at the level of higher education.