Argument of this article is that the instrumental approach to communication, or as authors label it, the rhetorical approach, best promises to facilitate human understanding and to effect social cohesion. (Editor/MB)

Specific suggestions for minimizing and living with their handicap are made to legally blind hard of hearing persons (with some usable residual hearing) and to their friends and relatives. (KW)

Study reports a technique for analyzing and categorizing certain gross features of the receptive language environment which constitute the primary source material for all of a baby's language learning. (Authors/MB)

Article examines the theory between social class and the degree to which the potentialities of a language are utilized. (Author/ML)

Schools are too relevant in that they resemble and reflect the patterns of values of society. New school environments are needed which should make the school less relevant to society; use cool" rather than hot" media, in the McLuhan sense; and re-examine the use of the time and space as communication media. (DE)

In this study boys were exposed to a televised verbal peer model who conformed to or deviated from a prohibition rule. (Author)

Concept labeling and use of complex solutions is facilitated by instructions to verbalize concurrently with initial stimulus presentation. Older subjects who delay verbalization until after task completion are less effective in using relevant stimulus dimensions for solution and more closely approximate the performance of younger concurrent…

Various types of translation problems in cross-cultural research are translation of questions or other verbal stimuli, vocabulary equivalence, equivalence in idiom, grammar, syntax, and back-translation. (Author/SB)

Feels our colleges do not prepare teachers to talk with or listen to individual students and suggests some training situations that would remedy this. (RB)

Results showed that more anxious counselors were less accurate in their ability to recall words spoken and feelings expressed in simulated interviews. The total" objective test scores, combining the results of all four affective states, yield statistically significant results. (Author)