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Editor Senior Associate Editorinteraction, (whether in a group setting like a workshop, or communication from a friend or advocate of The Volta Review ). Therefore, as a loyal reader of the journal, we ask you to help us spread the word about the journal and its place in the field. The Volta Review is currently accepting a wide range of manuscripts, including both quantitative and qualitative studies, case studies, literature reviews, commentaries, and book reviews. With a new web presence and online archives as well as an exciting monograph on professional preparation dropping in June 2010, the journal is rapidly increasing its visibility in and beyond the field of hearing loss and spoken language communication. Don't miss being a part of this prestigious legacy.This issue contains some important research concerning FM systems and hearing aid compatibility, strategies for maximizing the potential of individuals with hearing loss, and a frank and honest commentary on how the community labels individuals who are deaf as well as those with typical hearing. We hope you enjoy this issue, and please don't hesitate to contribute to The Volta Review . Sincerely,This article presents a systematic and comprehensive framework of proactive psychosocial attributes and tactics that individuals who are deaf use to maximize their professional and social potential. Empirical studies regarding deafness appear to lack such a framework which may be due to how the research is conducted. A framework of proactive psychosocial attributes and tactics was found in Reiff, Ginsberg, and Gerber's (1995) study of learning disabilities. Reiff et al.'s framework was thereafter used to frame a review of empirical studies related to deafness. It was found that individuals who are deaf likely maximize their potential using 2 sets of proactive psychosocial attributes and tactics: (1) skills that individuals with typical hearing use and (2) specialized skills for circumventing deafness-related difficulties. It is further argued that adult participants who are deaf will provide greater insight into how psychosocial potential is maximized. This literature review will be complemented by empirical findings in a later article.While the concurrent use of the hearing aid (HA) microphone with frequency modulation (FM) technology can decrease speech-recognition performance, the FM+HA condition is still an important setting for users of both HA and FM technology. The primary goal of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of attenuating HA gain in the FM+HA listening condition on the signal-to-noise ratio for 50% sentence recognition in two situations: (1) when speech was presented to the FM transmitter microphone and (2) when speech was presented to the HA microphone. A second goal was to determine whether measures based on the Articulation Index (AI) could be used to predict M. Samantha Lewis, Ph.D., CCC-A, FAAA, is a research investigator at