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Papers of William Yule, 1964-2002, including: questionnaires, test instructions, notes, progress reports, conference papers and articles, 1964-1969, relating to a longitudinal educational and medical survey of schoolchildren on the Isle of Wight (selected as a relatively static but socially and economically cross-representative population: this was the first epidemiological survey of this size to cover child health and the impact of health on educational achievement); questionnaire, articles and notes relating to 1982-1983 study on the effect of lead on children's development, and assessments of the tests used; reports and correspondence, 1987-1990, relating to survivors of the 1987 HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE cross-channel ferry disaster; reports, correspondence, questionnaires and articles, 1988-1996, relating to survivors of the 1988 sinking of the educational cruise ship JUPITER off the coast of Greece, including two studies, 1989-1992 and 1994-1996, of survivors and their experience of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which established the previously debated capacity of adolescents to suffer from PTSD; notes, questionnaires and articles, 1992-1993, relating to a World Health Organisation study, 'Brain development in utero', in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, concerning the prenatal development of children born shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident; reports, 1993-2002, relating to the charitably-funded School for Life, assisting children with severe learning difficulties, Kiev, Ukraine; reports, correspondence and notes, 1995-1996, concerning the joint United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Institute of Psychiatry project to provide psychosocial support to war-affected children, Bosnia.

Reports by individual visiting UNICEF consultants and volunteers, with some related correspondence, concerning: assessment visits to Mostar, Zenica and rural Bosnia, discussions with local health care professionals, teachers and social workers; seminars, lectures and workshops on grief counselling, war trauma and post traumatic stress disorder. Also some comment on specific case studies (subjects not named), and comment on the improving security and political situation.

Department of the Environment press release relating to the findings of the three studies on the effect of lead upon children's intelligence, conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham and Institute of Child Health.

Proposal for the joint United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)/Institute of Psychiatry project to provide psychosocial support for war-affected children and training for relevant local professionals in Mostar, Bosnia, Jan 1995. Text of agreement for the project, 1995. Draft proposal to extend the contract and continue provision of services in Mostar and central Bosnia in 1997-1998, dated Nov 1996.

Paper by William Yule, 'Some educational aspects of neurological handicaps in childhood', presented to Study Group on Neuropsychiatry, Alfriston, March 1967, relating to research on children with neurological disorders conducted as part of the Isle of Wight educational and medical survey.

Draft proposal, by Rune Stuvland, UNICEF, for the provision of psychosocial support to Muslim women and children refugees from Srebrenica, Bosnia, displaced to the region around the city of Tuzla after the mass killing of male Muslims by the Bosnian Serb Army, Jul 1995.

Progress reports, 1967 and 1968, for the Isle of Wight educational and medical survey, for the funding providers the Social Science Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation, summarising the work to date and resulting findings to date. Draft report, 1974, on the Isle of Wight educational and medical survey, 1966-1974, with a draft incomplete summary version of report, subsequently published in Psychological Medicine, 1976.

Summary of draft conference paper, 'A follow-up study of backward readers into adolescence' by William Yule, Leslie Rigley, Michael Rutter, Maureen Hemming and Jack Tizard, with covering letter to David Nelson, Assistant General Secretary, British Psychological Society, 24 Oct 1967, submitting the paper for a Society conference. Also reply from David Nelson, 6 Nov 1967, declining the paper.

Summaries of papers presented at a British Psychological Society symposium, 'Recent research on maladjustment', including 'Educational aspects of childhood maladjustment: some epidemiological findings', by William Yule and Michael Rutter, offprint fromThe British Journal of Educational Psychology, Feb 1968.

Snapshot photographs (untitled) of children at the School for Life, Kiev, including group games, meals, a music session and speech therapy. Also a promotional leaflet for the school in Russian and English [2002]

Typescript draft tabulated scores for 159 randomly selected 8-9 year old children, Isle of Wight, Mar 1966, by William Yule, summarising the results of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) test, Neale Analysis of Reading Ability (NARA) test and Schonell's Graded Word Spelling Test, with subjects divided by gender and age.

Sample test forms, administration and scoring instructions, including: the Rutter Behaviour Scale A and B (for completion by parents and teachers respectively); the vocabulary test component of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; a modification of the Goodenough draw-a-man test; general health and behaviour questionnaire; draft Russian translations of the tests.

Revised manual of diagnostic criteria for the Maudsley version of the SADS-L questionnaire. The questionnaire, subsequently used in 1994-1996 follow-up study of survivors of the 1988 sinking of the cruise ship JUPITER, was to be completed by the interviewer, and included: a checklist of psychiatric symptoms, degree of social impairment suffered, symptom severity, specific questions relating to panic attacks, phobias, separation anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, obsessional symptoms, depressive mood, manic syndromes, delusions, alcohol and drug use, eating disorders, physical health.

Typescript research bulletins summarising the progress of the Isle of Wight educational and medical survey, 1964-1969.

Reports, chiefly by Cliff Hawkins, clinical psychologist, on visits to the Kiev School for Life, 1993-1997, with comment on the development of its teaching and resources, and the continuing need for fund raising. Also notes by William Yule (co-director of the School for Life) on his 1992 meeting with Maria and Anatoli Schibrik (who had been inspired by the treatment given to their autistic daughter Luba, in the UK, to found a similar school in Kiev), and the announcement, May 2002, of the ending of the Institute of Psychiatry's funding of the School.

Report by Sven Hessle, Bodil Eriksson and Ann Helleday of Stockholm University School of Social Work, 'Reconstruction and specialisation of child welfare competence and social services in post war Bosnia through collaboration between universities', concerning their recent and future training work in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Report to the Social Science Research Council on a survey of school children in Camberwell, 1970, with particular reference to the children of West Indian immigrants. Draft article by Michael Rutter, William Yule and Michael Berger, 'London children of West Indian migrants', Dec 1973. Article by Michael Rutter, William Yule, Michael Berger, Bridget Yule, Janis Morton and Christopher Bagley, 'Children of West Indian immigrants: rates of behavioural deviance and of psychiatric disorder', offprint from the Journal of Child Psychiatry, 1974. Article by Michael Rutter, William Yule and Michael Berger, 'The children of West Indian migrants', published in New Society, Mar 1974.

Questions and full instructions to interviewer for interview with mother of child participating in study of the effect of lead on children's development, covering: family background; pregnancy, birth and general health; behavioural problems; diet, experience of school; play and other leisure activities; housing; education; parental occupation, physical and mental health; interviewer's assessment of the cleanliness of the home, with particular reference to possible sources of lead in paint fragments and dust; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) test, to be completed by mother of child.