Item Two:    In the Fall 2000, two new faculty members joined the CODI faculty at the
                      University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  Dr. Martin J. Ball, formerly of the
                      University of Ulster, accepted the Hawthorne BORSF Distinguished
                      Professor II position and Dr. Nicole Muller, formerly of the University
                      of Cardiff, accepted an adjunct professor position.  Both of these
                      individuals are fine professionals, researchers and educators with
                      international reputations.  They make an excellent addition to our faculty.

Item Three: The Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at
                      Lafayette was awarded a grant in the Governor's Departmental Excellence
                      through Faculty Excellence grant competition under the auspices of the
                      Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education.  Specifically
                      acknowledged with Dr. John Oller, Dr. Martin Ball, Dr. Shalini Arehole,
                      Dr. John Tetnowski, and Dr. Jack Damico.

Item Four:    Dr. Damico's research collaborator/colleague Dr. Nina Simmons-Mackie
                      was named as a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
                      Association at the Fall 2000 National Convention in Washington, D.C.

Item Five:    Dr. Damico's colleague and collaborator, Dr. Mary Oelschlaeger, has
                      recently received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Northern
                      Arizona University.

Item Six:       In the Fall of 2000, the Department of Communicative Disorders at the
                      University of Louisiana at Lafayette added two clinical faculty to its
                      staff. Ms. Carol Harer has accepted the position as the Director of
                      Clinical Services and Ms. Cheryl McDaniel has accepted a position as
                      a Clinical supervisor.

Item Seven:  Work is progressing on the initiation of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in
                    Applied Language and Speech Sciences within the Department of
                      Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  The
                      final proposal has been accepted by the Louisiana Board of Regents for
                      Higher Education and a review panel will be on-site in March, 2001.  It
                      is hoped that the program will be approved and will enroll the first
                      students in Fall 2001.

Item Eight:   Through the efforts of Dr. John Tetnowski and Dr. John Oller, the
                      Department of Communicative Disorders received three important
                      equipment grants totalling over $125,000.  One was a scientific
                      equipment grant for research instrumentation, one was for enhancing
                      the department's primary teaching classroom, and the final grant was
                      for enhanced video equipment in the departmental clinic.  With these
                      grants, the department now has state-of-the-art instrumentation in the
                      speech science laboratory, in the classroom and within the clinical
                      units.

Item Nine:     The University of Louisiana is currently celebrating its Centennial
                       Year as an Institution of Higher Education.

Item Ten:      With the hiring of Dr. Martin Ball, The University of Louisiana at
                       Lafayette is now the home of the International journal Clinical
                       Linguistics and Phonetics. Dr. Ball is the Founding Editor of the
                       journal and, along with Dr. Tom Powell, is the current Co-Editor
                       of the journal.

Item Eleven: During the Summer of 2000 Dr. Damico served as a mentor under the
                       auspices of the American Speech and Hearing Foundation's Research
                       in Higher Education Mentoring Stipend Program.  Ms. Marnie
                       Madden at Northern Arizona University worked with Dr. Damico
                       on a study of laughter as a communicative strategy by an individual
                       with aphasia.

Item Twelve: In January 2001, Dr. Damico and Dr. Oller were visited by Dr. Knut Erik
                        Aagaard and Dr. Espen Egeberg from Norway.  These researchers were
                        funded by the Norwegian government and visited five locations in the United
                        States and Canada to discuss innovative langauge assessment procedures for
                        children from diverse backgrounds.