Haskins Legacy: Archives
Below are various resources that relate to the history of Haskins Laboratories.
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Read the full text of the 1946 progress report, Research on Guidance Devices for the Blind (PDF)
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Haskins Laboratories: A brief account of the organization and its research, Dec. 1, 1952 (PDF)
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Haskins Laboratories, 1953 (PDF)
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The Adventure film (1954)
In 1954 Haskins Laboratories was featured in an episode of the CBS Television documentary show “Adventure” hosted by Charles Collingwood, and co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. The episode consisted of two segments, the first about research at Haskins and the second about Bali. The video on this page is a short version of what has become known as the Adventure film, showing only the Haskins segment of the episode.
The Adventure film features Frank Cooper, Al Liberman, and Pierre Delattre demonstrating the use of the Haskins Pattern Playback.
Please note that the quality of this video is not good because of multiple transfers over the years from film to videotape and then to digital form.
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An Investigation of Audio Outputs for a Reading Machine, by P. W. Nye, February 1965 (PDF)
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Lines for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Haskins Laboratories, by Ignatius G. Mattingly, 1985
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A Bio-Bibliography of Caryl Parker Haskins, compiled and edited by Alice B. Dadourian, 2000 (PDF)
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An Oral History of Haskins Laboratories (recorded by Patrick Nye, 1988-1991)
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The Science of the Spoken and Written Word, 2005
In conjunction with our move in April 2005 from 270 Crown Street in New Haven, Connecticut, to our new facilities at 300 George Street, the Laboratories produced a large brochure (“The Science of the Spoken and Written Word”) that provides an overview of the mission and work of the Laboratories along with a brief history of our research (“Decades of Discovery”). This 44-page brochure is available as a PDF file.
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Douglas Honorof talks about dialects on New York Public Radio, January 2007
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Michael T. Turvey, Emeritus Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories and Board of Trustees’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, provided the Haskins Laboratories Board of Directors with a brief overview of the the history of Haskins Laboratories at their March 23, 2010 meeting. Click here to download a PowerPoint version of his presentation.
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Donald Shankweiler and Carol A. Fowler (2015). Seeking a Reading Machine for the Blind and Discovering the Speech Code. History of Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 1, 78–99. (PDF)
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Dedication of the Haskins Preserve and Aspetuck Land Trust Haskins Lecture Series created to honor Westport scientists Caryl and Edna Haskins who donated their estate on Green Acre Lane in Westport, Connecticut, to the Aspetuck Land Trust and dedicated their lives to improving peoples lives through science. The estate is now a nature preserve bearing their names. The Haskins lecture series will educate the public about the science behind conservation.
The video is narrated by Alice Dadourian, Dr. Haskins’ Personal Secretary. August 2013.
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Leonard Katz’s perspective on the personnel and history of reading research at Haskins Laboratories, Sep. 2011 (PDF)
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An Oral History of Haskins Laboratories, 2013-2017, compiled by Carol Fowler and Donald Shankweiler
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Communiqué, Haskins Newsletter, Winter 2019 (PDF)
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Asilomar Workshop: Advancing Research in Phonology via Articulatory Phonology (ARP_AP), 12-14 July 2019, Pacific Grove, CA.
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Carol A. Fowler and Donald Shankweiler. Language and Life: Haskins Laboratories’ first half century, The Haskins Press: 2022. Hardcopy and Kindle copies are available on Amazon.com.
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