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These centers serve students at colleges and universities in a variety of ways, including writing and oral communication. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of universities in spring 2020, communication centers also closed. After the wave of initial lockdowns, some universities then transitioned to a fully online academic experience whereas other universities slowly opened their doors to in person learning. These regulations also meant some communication centers were allowed to open their doors to serve student clients with some restrictions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued recommendations for students returning to in person learning (“Operation Strategy”) . Included in these recommendations was the use of masks. Students returning to face-toface learning were required to wear face masks even in their formal classroom presentations (“Operational Strategy”) .  \nStudents studying in the United States likely had little or no experience in wearing a mask, although the use of masks does exist in some other countries. Despite this, many instructors in public speaking classes continued the tradition of requiring students to give speeches in class. This  \nstudy examines the impact of masks on undergraduate students in terms of their self-perceived confidence and their overall satisfaction while speaking in public. Researchers also inquired about strategies students used while giving their speeches in a mask. The survey used consists of questions regarding the content or organization of the speech and the delivery. This data can help assist communication centers working with clients in a pandemic or other health crises to make informed decisions about their presentations and the impact that a mask has on a speaker.  \nLiterature Review  \nIn early 2020, word spread of a virus impacting China that spread quickly to other Asian nations. On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified and named COVID-19, the exact illness that would take over the world (Ferrer, 2020) . Just a few months later, on March 11th, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic at a world press conference held by the General Director of the World Health Organization (Ferrer, 2020) . Many countries implemented lockdown procedures to stop the spread (Papadopoulos et al. , 2020) .  \nAlthough the emergence of the virus shocked many, coronaviruses have existed for many years. For example, in 2007, scientists studying different types of coronavirus strains  \nCommunication Center Journal 84  \nVol. 7, No. 1, 2021  \nwarned that “the presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV–like viruses in horseshoe bats is a time bomb”(Morenset al. , 2020, p. 955) . In 2020, COVID- 19 took the world by storm. Most scientists and epidemiologists deemed COVID-19 the deadliest respiratory disease pandemic since 1918 when the“Spanish” influenza pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people (Morens et al. , 2020) . COVID-19 changed the role of disease control entities for years to come (Balkhair, 2020) .  \nTo contain the spread of the virus, disease control agencies and governments recommended the use of masks to reduce the spread of the virus. Though a new concept in many places, masks were already common in others. For example, residents in Beijing wear face masks in an effort to keep their short-term health in check due to the high pollution levels in the air (Cherrie et al. , 2018) . The mask mandate distressed some Americans who were less familiar with the concept of wearing a mask. According to the Inf","cbCairdxUhvz8jhZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairdxUhvz8jhZ","pdf",181953,12,"English","# Literature Review\n## COVID-19 timeline and pandemic response\n## Coronavirus context and disease impact\n## Mask guidance, adoption, and stigma\n## University and school instructional shifts","[{\"question\":\"What does the study evaluate regarding students speaking while wearing masks?\",\"answer\":\"It evaluates students’ self-perceived confidence and overall satisfaction while speaking in public, and it also examines strategies students used for speech delivery in a mask.\"},{\"question\":\"How did communication centers and universities change during the early pandemic?\",\"answer\":\"When universities closed in spring 2020, communication centers also closed; later, some transitioned fully online while others gradually reopened with restrictions to serve student clients.\"},{\"question\":\"What sources of guidance are discussed for returning to in-person learning?\",\"answer\":\"The text references Centers for Disease Control recommendations that included mask use, along with broader discussions of government and health-agency recommendations for preventing spread.\"}]","Pandemic Presentations: The Impact of Masks on Speech Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Suggested Best Practices for the Communication Center | PDF",1792088592]