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Reviews Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: Issues and Management, Robert M. McLaughlin, Ph.D., 439 pages, hardcover, Grune & Stratton, Inc., Orlando, FL, 1986. This volume contains fourteen chapters authored by administrators, clinicians and scientists with extensive experience in human communication sciences and disorders . The book is designed to provide members of the profession of speech-language pathology and audiology a sense of historical background, as well as a perspective of the issues and practices unique to the profession. A listing of the chapters suggests the organization and comprehensiveness of the text: Professional Roots and Terminology ; Professional Characteristics and Issues; Strategies for Seeking Desired Employment; Preprofessional and Continuing Education; Professional Standards and Ethics; Professional, Consumer, and Community Organizations; Planning Aspects of Management; Business Aspects of Management; Personnel Aspects of Management; third Party Reimbursement; Legislation and Regulations: Impact on the Profession; Legal Aspects; Technology: New Tools for the Clinic and Laboratory; and The Research Career Ladder in Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. The text is well-organized and documented. Each chapter contains an outline, a summary and a list of references . This volume will be valuable as a graduate-level textbook. In addition, training program personnel should find this text valuable in planning curricula on management aspects of speech-language pathology and audiology. Also, clinicians considering new approaches to marketing and managing their businesses should find valuable information. Vic S. Gladstone, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Audiology Towson State University Baltimore, Maryland Sign With Me series ($3.95 each) and the ABC Come Sign With Me Teaching Frieze ($5.95), Susan R Shroyer and Joan G. Kimmel, paperback, Sugar Sign Press, 1407 Fairmont Street, Greensboro, NC 27403,1987. This series of four books teaches simple sign vocabulary such as colors, weather, numbers and the alphabet. Each book illustrates the printed word, the sign or manual alphabet handshape, and a picture of each concept. The illustrations are clear, yet simply drawn; the attractive layout helps the child to use the materials easily. The ABC frieze depicts the letters of the alphabet, the corresponding manual alphabet handshapes and representative object. These materials would be useful to any classroom teacher who wishes to introduce signs and fingerspelling to young children, hearing or deaf. The materials can also reinforce letter recognition for children learning to read. The materials would also be useful to professionals who work with parents of young deaf children. These materials can be shared with extended family members, babysitters and neighborhood playmates as a simple way to introduce signs. They would be especially useful for the hearing siblings of young deaf children as they can look at the books together and practice their new signing and fingerspelling skills. The authors have taken a familiar set of concepts and devised a fresh, new way to introduce them to young children. I am pleased to recommend these materials to teachers and to parents. Ruth F Howell, Ed.D. Director, Family Education Maryland School for the Deaf Columbia A Place of Their Own. John V Van Cleve and Barry Crouch, $14.95, 56 pages, Gallaudet University Press, 800 Honda Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002,1989. Long overdue, this history of deaf people in the United States provided by professors Van Cleve and Crouch, is a major scholarly contribution. The major emphasis is on the nineteenth century. In addition, there is an overview of the European influences that preceded the establishment of schools for deaf children in this country, a chapter on events of the twentieth century, and a look at the future based on the authors' understanding of the past. The research upon which the book is based is comprehensive . The interpretations reflect insight and objectivity. We have needed the expertise of historians to help us make sense of the way society has treated deaf people and the role of those who are deaf in these events. Both authors are professional historians. They have given us a book every literate deaf person and all professionals in the field of deafness should read. McCay Vernon, Ph.D. Editor, American Annals of the Deaf The Week the World Heard Gallaudet, Jack R. Gannon, $29.95, hardcover, $14.95, paperback, 176 pages, Gallaudet University Press, 800...

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