Describes a program that develops alternate funding sources for assistantships and fellowships by inviting nonprofit community organizations and other campus departments to use communication graduate students in their business operations. (PD)

Presents 18 tables of ratings and rankings, by Speech Communication Association members, of doctoral programs in speech communication: their overall quality as well as specific content areas and methodologies. (PD)

Judges who were either experienced or inexperienced in listening to deaf speakers were asked to recognize speech sounds in word contexts presented in two modes: auditory only and auditory-visual. The experienced and inexperienced listener groups performed similarly. (Author/SEW)

Treatment strategies and therapy materials for remediation of phonological process problems are described. The approach uses the child's language and conceptual skills to facilitate the use of the sound contrasts necessary to convey meaning to the listener. Therapy materials can be developed using pictures. (SEW)

Preschool children were paired in 12 speaker-listener dyads in which the speaker described common familiar items, and the listener attempted to guess their identity. Postfeedback, the speakers used longer, more informative descriptions for items originally failed and shorter, less informative descriptions for items successfully guessed on the…

Discusses the development and status of the speech communication field at the University of Virginia. (PD)

Describes the field of speech communication from a social scientific point of view as a discipline devoted to study, research, and application. (PD)

Based on his experience as a journal editor, the author reviews the criteria for publication and emphasizes the importance of teaching research methods and writing skills in the graduate communication program. (PD)

Reviews positive signs of growth for the academic job market in speech communication. (PD)

Analyzes the assumptions of interpersonal listening based on empathy. Provides (1) a brief historical overview of the empathic tradition as it relates to interpersonal communication study and to listening; (2) a critique of presuppositions underlying the concept of empathic listening; and (3) some guidelines for developing alternatives to empathic…

Assumptions about comprehension of utterances are challenged in two experiments using as an example the verb phrase "to do a Richard Nixon on a tape" (i.e., erase it). It is argued that creating meanings, as with this phrase, works differently from selecting senses for utterances and that many require a mixture of the two. (MSE)

Points out that well-selected programed material can be effective in large heterogeneous classes when integrated with other methods of instruction. Reviews nine programed speech textbooks for their focus and use. (PD)

Examines the various aspects of natural conversation in order to provide a theoretically comprehensive schema that accounts for a conversation's structure. Aspects considered are: (1) speaker-listener initial and turn-change behavior; (2) the listener's speaker-directed behavior; (3) interlistener and simultaneous behaviors; and (4) the function…

Examines whether four- to six-year-old children are sensitive to the contextual influence of previous discourse on judgements of adequacy of referential communication. Findings show the children could discriminate between the functionally informative and ambiguous communications. (EKN)