The Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
“The Association shall, as soon as feasible, so alter its major publication structure as to provide two journals instead of one as at present…”
- Executive Council Report, November 1956
Ten years after the title change of the Journal of Speech Disorders to the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, a second ASHA journal appeared. The increase in membership by this time had resulted in a substantial increase in the amount of material being submitted to the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. At the 1956 convention, an Executive Council decision was made to separate the current JSHD into two journals each focusing on a major area included in the JSHD. The journals were to be tentatively titled as the Journal of Research in Speech and Hearing and the Journal of Therapy in Speech and Hearing. But by next year’s convention in 1957, the Committee on Publications recommended that the tentatively titled Journal of Therapy in Speech and Hearing keep its current title, the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, while the new journal be titled the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. The JSHD would continue to publish reports of clinical research while the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research would focus on basic research in the areas of speech and hearing processes. The subscription price was set at $5.00 for each journal and the journals would alternate months of publication.
Lengthy manuscripts that were considered worthy of publication in the JSHD, were published as a supplement between the years 1950-1963. In 1965, these publications were given the title ASHA Monographs starting with no. 12 and ending in 1993 with no. 30. In this same year, proceedings of conferences, workshops and seminars that were sponsored in whole or part by ASHA and had previously been reported on in the JSHD, were given a series title of ASHA Reports and were published until 1992. Both publications were published irregularly but only the ASHA Monographs were distributed to all subscribers of the JSHD and the JSHR. The ASHA Reports had to be purchased separately on an issue by issue basis.
In 1991, the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders and the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research were combined into one journal, which maintained the latter title. This decision was largely due to the recognition of the similarity between the journals and the fact that this same year two new clinical practice journals debuted with material divided on the basis of professional content. In 1997, the journal was renamed again with the title of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.