Suggests that public relations programs be developed through the expansion, modification and unification of current speech communication coursework, and provides a curriculum for implementing such a program. (MH)

Examines the rationale behind the speech faculty's successful service role at Ferris State College in Michigan. (MH)

Cites documents available in the ERIC system which reflect the current educational philosophy emphasizing that successful teachers understand the nature of communication and are themselves skillful communicators. (MH)

Advocates using an experimental or "communi-site" approach to teaching basic speech. Suggests that students seek out problems from local communities and use the classroom as a base of operations for their issue-oriented speechmaking assignments, lectures and problem-solving processes. (MH)

Proposes a rhetorical perspective of newspaper comic strips emphasizing the recriprocal influence of comics and society. (MH)

Describes study which found that young children do not have an adequate concept of what constitutes a spoken word, which may partially explain why some children have difficulty making sense out of instruction aimed at helping them to process print. (JM)

Suggests ways of involving students in conversations as exercises in the use of vocabulary. (HOD)

Contends that the current status of job opportunities in speech versus the number of graduate degrees awarded on a regular basis warrant a moratorium on new graduate M.A. and Ph.D. programs and a reduction in graduate admissions to existing programs. Available from: ACA Bulletin, Robert Hall, Editor, Speech Communication Association, 5205 Leesburg…

Argues that all rhetoric has an ethical dimension and analyzes legal arguments using criteria for "universal" argumentation from C. Perelman. Suggests: (1) practical success can result from universal argumentation; (2) specificity of the law, precedent, and legal status of conflicting values affect preferences for arguments; and (3)…

The follow-up study reports data from a population-based series of 23 Swedish children diagnosed in childhood as suffering from infantile autism and other childhood psychoses and followed through to the ages of 16-23 years. Intelligence quotient at diagnosis and communicative speech development before six years were the most important prognostic…

Examines Henry Johnstone's (a former editor of "Philosophy and Rhetoric") ironic play on the different uses of the terms "rational,""argument," and "explanation," when he discusses two of his favorite philosophical topics, rhetoric and argument. (NKA)

Describes a study of how the interdependence of speech and gesture is realized in the course of motor planning and execution. Do the two systems operate interactively or do they operate in a ballistic or independent fashion? Four experiments showed that, for deictic expressions, the ballistic view is very nearly correct. (SED)

Analysis of the psychotic speech of a nine-year-old autistic boy suggested that psychotic speech (intelligible but out of context phrases) was maintained through escape from task demands and that teaching an appropriate equivalent phrase ("Help me") reduced the frequency of psychotic speech. (Author/DB)

Focuses on the academic unit which wishes to establish a degree program at a site remote from its parent institution. Attempts to give direction and structure to a department's early efforts to decide whether or not to undertake the development of an extended program. (MS)

Elaborates on the reservations many teachers in Northern Ireland have about oral communication exams. (JAD)