Abstract:
This paper discusses the history of the Ball State University Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic from its very beginnings, as well as the development of Speech Pathology and Audiology as a major at Ball State University. It includes a discussion of the beginnings of the field of Speech Pathology and Audiology in the state of Indiana. Transcripts from two oral history interviews are an integral part of the thesis. A partial.biograpy of the interviewees: Dr. Richard Artes and Mrs. Martha Reed, former faculty of the Ball State University Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic, precedes the transcripts.