Results of a study involving 20 severely to profoundly hearing impaired adults are consistent with prior research that suggests independent primary and secondary roles for segmental and prosodic speech characteristics, respectively, in determining intelligibility in severely to profoundly hearing-impaired speakers. (Author/CL)

Includes the following information: contact person; degrees offered; application requirements and deadline date; admission requirements; etc. (PD)

Reflects on the importance of a professional association in the life of a speech communication teacher. (PD)

S. S. Curry, famous advocate of the speech "expression movement," is studied in light of his use of the tenets of elocution. (CH)

The project, by 11 Lees Junior College students, aims to record the histories and recollections of senior citizens in the area, put them in the college library, and make them available to historians and folklorists upon request. (NQ)

The spoken word is central to human communication. (MM)

The value of communication is stressed. (MM)

Communication aesthetics" indicates clearly that our concerns transcend the folly of a narrow, conventional concept of performance; simultaneously, the label is an intensely mixed matrix whose pull is toward new views of the symbolic process-views that stress the complexity and the urgency of aesthetic aspects of language. (Author)

The author presents an offering of titles in drama and oral communications. (Editor/AS)

Using tape recordings to preserve and enhance oral educational history. (RA)

Calls for personal involvement in political action by speech professionals. Cites the example and ideas of the Home Economics Division of the American Vocational Association. (PD)

Investigates the role of language in society from the theoretical framework of the sociology of knowledge. (EKN)

Reviews some of the literature on issues and cases in freedom of expression and First Amendment rights used in teaching a speech communication class about "Issues in Free Speech." (JMF)