Background: This study is part of a programme of research aiming to develop a quantitative measure of quality of life for children with communication needs. It builds on the preliminary findings of Markham and Dean (2006), which described some of the perception's parents and carers of children with speech language and communication needs had…

This paper examines the implementation of language-in-healthcare policy in a highly bilingual, medically stressed border region of south Texas. In its current form, federal language-in-healthcare policy unevenly impacts different geographic regions. Healthcare markets along the U.S.-Mexico border are particularly taxed by the recent language…

Researchers exploring the use of language use in radiotelephony communication have tended to focus on the limitations of the non-native English user and the threats which their limited control of English may pose for aviation safety (e.g. Atsushi, 2003, 2004). Hence the recent International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) policy places the onus…

The material and references that follow are concerned with communication needs of the handicapped student in college. References concerning studies and surveys about the use of certain communication aids; listings of suppliers of aids, talking books, and large print books; as well as articles dealing with more general information having reference…

Proliferation of factual data, an educational problem for some time, is a greater dilemma today due to the knowledge explosion. Facts are accumulating at an alarming rate. All too often teachers require students to learn irrelevant data (statement of facts) rather than learning to select, process, handle, interpret, employ, and organize data, and…

Lung volumes and ventilatory patterns used by 10 healthy and 14 asthmatic subjects during conversation, monologue, and counting at two loudness levels were studied. Asthmatics were found to favor respiratory over communications needs. They used a greater percentage of their reduced vital capacity, with slower inspiratory and faster expiratory flow…

Research suggests that motivation of autistic children can be increased and that this may be a crucial variable in the acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of their treatment gains. Discussion focuses on effects of failure on motivation, learned helplessness, shared control and increased success, and strategies for increasing exposure to…

Educational research has not accomplished all it should because it has failed to communicate its ideas to the right people. (RA)

This article considers answers to the problem of establishing contacts with subcultural groups (especially the disadvantaged) in order to provide them with functional adult education programs. (LY)

Analyzed recidivism of 1,167 male inmates who had been incarcerated in Iowa's correctional institutions for various lengths of time between 1970 and 1984. Concluded that there is a need to deal with the cognitive dissonances and communication gaps identified between the facts and the social forces reacting to or ignoring them. (Author/NB)