Stresses the need for local materials centers which loan speech and hearing materials to therapists for trial and evaluation. Borrowing privileges enhance the probability of careful selection and purchase of needed materials. (MB)

The article describes a speech and language clinician's involvement in a due process hearing in which a 16-year-old deaf boy's parents charged (in part) that their child did not receive an appropriate individualized educational program because others in the child's class received the same number of hours of intervention by the clinician.

A survey of 487 speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators providing services to children with hearing loss described their demographic characteristics and perceived adequacy of preprofessional training. Pathologists felt prepared in the fundamentals of speech and language but less prepared in audiology, deafness, and clinical…

Speech and hearing therapists investigated the effectiveness of video taping as a multisensory approach to therapeutic procedures aimed at developing adequate communication skills for students with speech or hearing difficulties. They also studied the usefulness of such taping for parent counseling and inservice training of therapists and…

The following papers were presented at the conference (titles are translated from the French): "Linguistic Approaches to Verbal Interaction and Its Context" (Jean-Francois de Pietro); "Pragmatic Approaches to the Rehabilitation of Aphasia Patients" (Marie-Pierre de Partz); "Contributions of Communication Development Theories: Limits of Their…

This digest summarizes the professional standards for accreditation of personnel preparation programs developed by seven organizations concerned with special education and related services. The seven organizations include the: American Occupational Therapy Association, American Physical Therapy Association, American Speech-Language-Hearing…