The purpose of this study was to explore the association between overall job satisfaction and selected demographic variables among 332 employees of a youth development organization. The Job Satisfaction Index (JSI) was used to measure the level of job satisfaction, and demographic information was obtained via a questionnaire developed by the researchers. Data analysis procedures included descriptive statistics, Spearman's rho, Pearson r, t tests, and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results indicated no significant relationships or differences (p ¼ 0.05) between job satisfaction and demographic variables. These findings have implications for future research on job satisfaction and employee retention in youth development organizations.Youth development organizations with a primary emphasis on serving underprivileged, high-risk youth have been in high demand (Franze, Foster, Abbott-Shim, Francis, & Lambert, 2002). Accompanying the demand for these organizations has been an ongoing need for employees to operate them. Employee turnover has been extremely high for youth development organizations serving high-risk youth; annual turnover rates frequently have exceeded 30% (Franze et al., 2002;Halpern, 1999). Turnover has occurred at any time during the year and often unexpectedly (Clugston, 2000). Moreover, job vacancies at youth development organizations sometimes have Correspondence should be directed to Ernest W. Brewer,

The Tennessee Tonality Test (TTT) is a speech discrimination test which has frequency selectivity in the test words rather than the commonly used phonetical balance of the test words. It was assumed that frequency selectivity in the test words could be achieved by dividing them into the low, mid, and high categories based on the pitch of the words which was termed “tonality.” The TTT was administered to seven normal hearing (23 to 32 years old) and seven hearing-impaired adults (20 to 70 years old). The subject was asked to repeat each prerecorded word which was presented at the subject's MCL and the tester wrote down the response. The criterion measure was the percentage correct of the test words correctly repeated among the total of 30 words in each list. The results indicated that there were no significant differences among the mean tonality scores of the five different lists for normal hearing and for hearing impaired adults. The need for future studies will be discussed. [Work supported by NIHR.]