"In a five-minute discussion, he gave me the tips and a program to learn how to speak, to develop speech and communication as a skill.
Hawkins, who works at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and also as an independent consultant, spends time speaking to the public, developing and delivering Spanish-language programming, training educators, helping to produce live webcasts, and writing online educational materials, among other tasks.
Academics I've spoken to have developed consultancy work through word of mouth from colleagues or research partners (so they make sure everyone is aware of their work) or have been contacted by clients who have read about their research on departmental Web pages.
In "From Birth, Engage Your Child With Talk" (Personal Health, Sept. 29), Jane E. Brody makes the unsurprising point that speaking to young children helps develop their communication skills.
As they continue to grow, young children are learning everything from smiling, walking and speaking, to making choices, exploring and developing relationships.
What is striking is that most of the action flows from the developing world – speaking to the urgency of the environmental crisis felt in these countries as well as to a regulatory culture that has long seen financial policy as having a developmental role.
"Information was coming in from going out and speaking to local people, and we developed it from there," explains Detective Sergeant Keith Duckworth from the intelligence unit at Chorley Police.
I developed a phobia of speaking to people in a professional context.
Writing LGBT wasn't about "hooking a new audience" or "crossing genres," it was solely driven by the desire to write the voices that spoke to me and develop characters that I connect with.
The results of this study highlight the mediating role played by dissociation in the revictimization of women abused during childhood, and speak to the need to develop interventions designed to prevent intimate partner violence among abused girls or adult women with a history of abuse.
