What Was the Name of ASHA ’ s First Journal?

Next month we turn our clocks back as daylight-saving time ends for most of the country. Here at ASHA—at least for those of us maintaining the archives—we already turned back to the year 1936. In honor of October being American Archives Month, the ASHA Archives staff created a new online exhibit sharing the history of our scientific journals. In launching the journals’ long and distinguished history, ASHA printed the first issue of its first journal, Journal of Speech Disorders, in March of 1936. The first issue contained four articles spread across 34 pages. ASHA saw a steady growth in its journals program over the next 60 years. Along the way, journal titles changed, publications merged, some ended, and eventually they all began publishing exclusively online. Each change reflected the association’s advancement and changes in the professions it represents. In 1947, when ASHA changed its name from the American Speech Correction Association to the American Speech and Hearing Association to better reflect the growing number of members interested in audiology after World War II, the Journal of Speech Disorders became the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders (JSHD). The increase in membership over the next decade resulted in a substantial increase in the amount of material submitted to JSHD. The Executive Council decided in 1956 to separate the JSHD into two journals. The new journal—Journal of Speech and Hearing Research—still exists as the Journal of Speech, ...
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