Lists proposed competencies to be used in a certification program for material design and production professionals. Six production areas are presented, within which skill must be demonstrated in at least one, as well as activities to be performed in the areas of communication problems, message design, and media production facility administration.…

Suggestions of writers such as A. Holland and M. Lahey and L. Bloom are examined regarding their appropriateness for visual-manual communication and are applied to approximately 50 signs most frequently taught to retarded and autistic persons to aid in lexicon planning. Additional signs are proposed for extending this basic list. (Author/DLS)

Introduces a symposium aimed at providing a practical compendium of advice to teachers in communication for helping alleviate common communication problems among students in a classroom. (JMF)

Presents a case history of a private clinical treatment of an individual for communication reticence. Focuses on rhetoritherapy which deals with inculcating effective communication skills. Illustrates the kinds of problems and strategies that characterize private treatment. (JMF)

Conflict situations in high school were observed in an effort to determine how these situations were regarded by parents, teachers, and students. A striking lack of effective communication among all involved in these situations was observed. (JD)

Results did not confirm the overall functional superordinancy of the nonverbal channel across all levels of response orientation. An interactive relationship was found, with the nonverbal channel functioning with relatively more impact on the confrontive level of orientation. (Author)

Discusses the power of stereotypes in rhetoric and their use in the enthymeme. (JMF)

Suggests creating subtle but simple controversial issues and personalities for student assignments to help students consider the problem of audience in technical and business writing. (TJ)

Early childhood experiences communicating about death were better predictors of the ease with which respondents can imagine communicating with a terminally-ill loved one. Most respondents thought the physician should decide how the patient should be informed although 83 percent consider physicians poorly equipped for this role. (Author)

Discusses relationship problems between psychology and education, sources of potential conflict between research and practice, and how a conceptual framework for better communication between education and psychology may be evolved. Educational psychologists should work to avoid estrangement of psychology from education through promoting mutual…

Discusses the special problems of the purchasing department and how better business communication skills contribute to solutions. (RL)

Presents a simulation game used to verify the theory that culture shock in the form of confusion, hostility, and anxiety occurs when interpersonal communication between interactors from different cultures breaks down. (CMV)

Presents a discussion of the linguistic mechansim of nominalization. In identifying and challenging nominalizations, the counselor can help a couple clarify the present state of their relationship, where they are hurting, the desired state of their relationship, and the feeling and behavioral changes they want in their relationship. (Author)

Compares the effectiveness of cognitive modification, systematic desensitization and speech preparation in the reduction of speech and general anxiety. Results indicate that the cognitive modification program is highly effective in reducing both types of anxiety. (MH)