"Use it or let slip it" refers as much to a next to the first language as it does to accumulated vacation days.

"Use it or let slip it" refers as much to a next to the first language as it does to accumulated vacation days. Realizing this and determined to save the Spanish skills garnered by the agency of coursework and study abroad, a collection of undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) constructed the Organizacion de Logopedia y Audiologia (OLA), which will begin its third year this fall.

The original inspiration for OLA came from Joan beneficial Erickson--now professor emerita--of UI's department of words and hearing science. Erickson encouraged her scholars not only to retain the

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