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An essay is presented on climate change. It mentions that in the Copenhagen summit on climate change or Cop 15, the politicians from different countries agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions to 2° Celsius. Jim Hanson and Stefan Rahmstorf state that the 2° Celsius increase in the global temperature is very high. The author says that the Martin Heidegger's philosophy is helpful in thinking of ways on how technology, science, politics, and economics respond to climatic changes.

The article discusses the notion of ecopoetics to the work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and his concept of dwelling. It highlights the comments on philosopher Jonathan Bate's notion of ecopoetics and his discussion of Heidegger. It elaborates the four senses that Heidegger gives to nature of sustainability including the Earth, equipment, physis and aletheia, and status of humanity. It is stated that sustainability has been made an issue of consumerism and a topic that capitalism must address.

Discusses the comparative judgments of vocal quality, speech fluency, and confidence of black and white speakers in the southern universities of the U.S. Concerns on the study of Negro speech; Relationship of personality to dialect; Emphasis on the spread of different phonemes that are found in Standard American English.

Reports on the feasibility of collecting meaningful data on the mental health needs and treatments for children and families by including a parent-completed, machine-coded questionnaire in the course of routine intake assessments. Method of study; Clinical data obtained across multiple settings; Standardized data-gathering approaches in routine clinical settings.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate speech therapy for functional misarticulations and to determine the measures which predict improvement in speech, language, and listening. The following factors appeared predictive: (a) occupational status of the fathers and word recognition; (b) mental age and improvement in word recognition, auditory discrimination, and articulation; ( c ) stimulability of sounds and improvement in articulation; (d) auditory skills and improvement in connected speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The professional education of speech clinicians who work in the public schools is influenced by the requirements for certification by state departments of education and by the American Speech and Hearing Association. The professional competencies needed by speech clinicians in the public schools are essentially no different from those needed by clinicians who work in other settings. All clinicians need basic information about normal communicative processes, and professional information and skills in speech disorders. in addition, the clinician working in the schools will need some orientation to public school procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on speech therapy used by teachers for slow learning children. Teachers need to know the limitations of each child and what speech goals are possible and needed. They must learn how to accept and to strive for language and speech suitable to the child's mental age rather than his chronological age. The principles for speech therapy and language development involve the use of concrete terms, use of simple daily activities and the development of language before the correction sounds.

Part III. Focuses on the organization and administration of state programs in speech and hearing therapy. Size of case loads of speech and hearing therapy programs in several states in the U.S.; Types of speech and hearing problems among children; Factors considered for the eligibility of children for speech therapy; Comparison between speech correction and speech improvement.

Part II. Focuses on the need for speech and hearing therapists to hold a certificate in several states in the U.S. Growth of state certification; Changes and improvements in the certification plans of state departments of education; Therapists working in state programs.

Emphasizes the importance of understanding the parents or grandparents in order to understand a child's speech. Parent education as observed by the state departments of education in the U.S.; Parent education as observed by university speech and hearing clinics; Details of planning a program of parent education in the college clinic.

Discusses practices of certification in speech and hearing therapy in different states in the U.S. Special Secondary Credential in Correction of Speech Defects in California; Speech Correctionist in Delaware; Teacher Certification in Special Education in Florida.

The article offers the author's insights on the history of speech correction in Ohio. She says that the state has been slow to realize its responsibility to children with speech disorders. She mentions that special education law was enacted in 1945 and it was interpreted to include children with hearing losses and speech problems. She adds that doctor Franklin Knower's survey of speech education in 1948-1948, reveals that university speech and hearing clinics were giving clinical therapy.

Explores the role of speech therapists in speech improvement programs. Controversy over speech improvement; Activities comprising a speech education program; Benefits of a speech improvement program.

In article the author informs about the relationship between schooling and societal economics. Topics include that climate change and several environmental issues have led to the assessment of environmental exploitations; the importance of technological efficiencies that are making the use of renewable sources such as solar or wind energy.

Colonialism has wrought great injustices across many indigenous people at the during the modern period. Maori exercise unique negotiating skills to productively engage with the power dynamics of colonialism and modernity. This dialogue between Te Haumoana White and Ruth Irwin illuminates the ongoing pressures of modernity and colonialism, unique Maori approaches to ownership, and a deep understanding of power and politics. This dialogue traces historic injustice and contemporary innovations that seek to resuscitate the landscape and the community in, through, and around modern legal and technological onto-epistemologies. At the cutting edge of contemporary technology, AI is using algorithms to aggregate and sift political communities online. Te Haumoana White's insights on land, environment, people and law are reflected on the AI tendency to advocate for the manipulation of popular opinion in the aggregation of AI algorithms. The computer science community who advocate AI seem to have little understanding of political theory, political economics outside the tired and outdated neoliberal paradigm, nor how voice constitutes politics. Thus, Tegmark and others in the AI genre, tend to advocate a 'benign dictatorship' model, based on a combination of neoliberalism and algorithms that are vulnerable to exacerbation and manipulation of popularist trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]