This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: communications curricula for technical education programs; the recorded oral communication of business students; interactions between parents and speech-language pathologists in public schools; predictors of public speaking ability and academic success; the social, semantic, and syntactic features of child language; speech communication curriculum of the future; teaching standard English to four- and five-year-old black children; structured language programs for culturally different children; production of bound morphemes and stem terminal phonemes by preschool children; the effects of communication skills on academic success and job performance; teaching haptics in basic speech; interpersonal communication skills training; the effects of speech training on state patrolmen; a typewriting manual for teaching standard English; communication skills for academic achievement groups; subject matter in the business communication course; the fantasy play and verbal fluency of learning disabled children; rhetor-linguistics for manager-leader development; and junior college speech programs. (MAI)