Interplay between visual feedback and lip-positioning skill was studied among 10 normal hearing and 10 hearing impaired children (aged 5 to 14 years). In general, findings showed that, given visually displayed lip-position targets and feedback from positioning actions, children could perform accurately regardless of hearing status or prior…

Responds to criticisms of the author's study concerning children's interpretations of ambiguous referential communications. (HOD)

In an attempt to better understand the quality of interprofessional relationships, research used a confirmation/disconfirmation framework to analyze communication in nurse-physician dyads. Results indicated that nurses and physicians were primarily confirming in their interaction. (SRT)

Describes communication in school organizations, the process of communication, communication problems, and how educational leaders can improve communication in schools. (SRT)

Discusses the use of mythical images to create a transcendent vision of order and analyzes the efforts of a leading Irish speaker as he argued against legislative union with Great Britain in 1800. (VLC)

Concludes that traitlike communication apprehension (CA) was found to be a modest predictor of a form of audience-based CA, while a situational component was much stronger. (VLC)

Reports results of a study that examined the perceptions of 173 students who had lived abroad about their communication in three types of reentry relationships: (1) with parents, (2) with siblings, and (3) with friends. (VLC)

Makes suggestions for people planning to sponsor or speak at conferences devoted to writing. (EL)

Symbolic play and literate behavior involve similar mental processes: the production and comprehension of decontextualized language and narrative competence. Methodological and theoretical issues in recent studies are reviewed. Observational results support the theory of similar mental processes, but experimental results question a causal…

Because engineering schools are recognizing the need for graduates to be able to speak and write well, many programs are including communications in various facets of the curriculum. Suggestions for enhancing student communication skills during the senior year are presented. (DH)

Defines the problem of communication apprehension, i.e., fear of oral communication and its effects on teaching English as a second language (ESL). Focuses on the specific problem of Japanese ESL students. Suggests and explains classroom techniques designed to alleviate this anxiety and to promote and practice communication. (SED)

Preschoolers did use certain aspects of the "child-directed speech" register: they addressed their infant siblings with a high pitch, with relatively short utterances, and with many directives and self-repetitions. However, linguistic interactions of preschool-age siblings and infants were different from those of mothers and infants in several…

Describes a system of program evaluation that includes a review of divisional and departmental programs and leadership, academic program reviews, and the five-year planning process. (PD)

Reviews nine speech communication textbooks specifically written for high school students. Comments on the state-of-the-art of contemporary high school textbooks in speech communication. (PD)

Discusses implications and ideas presented at the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Conference (University of Iowa, March 28-31, 1984), a symposium in which distinguished representatives from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences met to share common dissatisfactions with prevailing scientific orthodoxies and common interests in…