Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools Journal
"Our purpose is to publish information of importance and specific interest to those in our profession who are employed in the schools.”
- The First 75 Years: An Oral History, 1999
By 1970, almost 50 percent of ASHA’s membership were employed in a school setting. In response to this development, ASHA hired an associate secretary for school-clinic affairs and began to publish a series of booklets on a quarterly basis for SLPs and Audiologists working in the public schools. The first booklet appeared in 1970 and was titled, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools and was sent complimentary to over 12,000 school clinicians. The response to the booklets was overwhelmingly positive and soon requests for the booklets were received from both non-school clinician members and non-members of ASHA. In 1971, the title was changed to Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools and in 1972, the publication became an official journal of ASHA. It continued to be freely available to all school clinicians who were members, but other members not employed in the schools and non-members had to subscribe for $9.50 a year. The LSHSS became the first ASHA scholarly journal to accept paid advertising.