Questionnaires completed by 204 certified speech pathologists and audiologists were analyzed to determine the effectiveness of supervision in the Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY), a practicum for speech pathology and audiology students. Data was collected for the following aspects of the CFY: personal information, information concerning the CFY…

Three current research areas (learning theory, interpersonal approach, and psycholinguistics) related to delayed speech in children are significant for speech pathologists. Learning theory classifies stimulus events that cause a child to develop a body of verbal behavior and suggests ways of organizing thearapy. The interpersonal approach…

Sensory integration, operant and combined therapies were used with 27 profoundly retarded, marginally vocal adults. (Author)

A rating scale to measure communication attitudes that distinguish stutterers from nonstutterers was tested for validity and reliability and used to determine when stutterers in speech therapy changed their attitudes to normal. (MYS)

Thirty-two junior high school students with severe communication defects were provided with speech therapy--which included videotape feedback techniques, phonic mirror, tape recorder, "s" meter, pitch meter, language master, bicom, and other sensory aids--in the Speech and Language Resource Room (Queens, New York). Evaluation procedures included…