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Bormann, Ernest G. – J Speech Hearing Res, 1969
Descriptors: History, Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement, Speech Therapy
Peer reviewedDonovan, G. E. – British Journal of Disorders of Communication, 1971
Describes an apparatus which combines auditory masking, metronomic pacing, and uninterrupted masking in a single unit to aid the stammerer. (MB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement, Speech Therapy
DeVito, Joseph A. – Central States Speech J, 1969
Identifies inadequacies" of two developmental theories ofstuttering and argues that such theories are not needed and not useful" for treating stuttering. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement, Speech Therapy
Peer reviewedHillard, Sallie W.; Goepfert, Laura P. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1979
The article discusses teaching articulation to children by the semantically potent word approach (i.e., by using words which have inherent meaning to a child's life experience) and describes a study in which this approach was used with six children (ages three to five years). (DLS)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Phonemes, Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement
Prevalence of and Recovery from Speech Disorders in a Group of Freshmen at the University of Alabama
Cooper, Eugene B.; And Others – Journal of the American Speech and Hearing Association, 1974
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Speech Evaluation, Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement
FRICK, JAMES V. – 1965
THERAPY PROCEDURES BASED ON MOTOR PLANNING TECHNIQUES WERE DEVELOPED FOR THE TREATMENT OF YOUNG ADULT STUTTERERS. THE SUBJECTS FOR THIS STUDY WERE 24 MALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS RECEIVING THERAPY FOR STUTTERING. USING RATINGS OF THE SEVERITY OF THEIR OVERT STUTTERING, THE INVESTIGATOR DIVIDED THE SUBJECTS INTO AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP AND A CONTROL…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychomotor Skills, Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement
Sacco, Pat R. – Instructor, 1974
Author suggests ways to help the stutterer adjust to everyday life. (GB)
Descriptors: Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement, Speech Skills, Speech Therapy
Peer reviewedPeins, Maryann – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1972
Descriptors: Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research, Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement
Peer reviewedBeaty, David T. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980
The case of a 15-year-old stutterer is presented to illustrate A. Lazarus's multimodal behavior therapy model, proposed to integrate various procedures. A combination of role playing, metronome use, biofeedback training, and assertion training was used. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Intervention, Speech Handicaps
Peer reviewedMase-Goldman, Diana; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1988
Seven esophageal adult speakers recorded multiple choice intelligibility lists loaded with words beginning with +BACK consonants and clusters. Speakers then independently practiced their errors. Intelligibility improved significantly from prepractice to postpractice. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Drills (Practice), Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement
Download full textWebster, Ronald L. – 1968
To determine whether or not a modified delayed auditory feedback would smooth the speech pattern and increase fluency in stutterers, eight severe stutterers were given individual 10 to 40 hour speech sessions. Feedback was delayed by .2 seconds, the rate of speech controlled by the experimenter, and speech patterns were smoothed by prolonging…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Exceptional Child Research, Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement
Besozzi, Thomas E.; Adams, Martin R. – J Speech Hearing Res, 1969
Adapted from Besozzi's M.A. thesis, Kent State University. Paper presented at National Convention of the American Speech and Hearing Association (44th, Denver, Nov. 15-18, 1968). (JJ)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Oral Reading, Speech Handicaps, Speech Improvement
Lepp, Daniel S.; Kiernan, Bonnie M. – 1984
Written for speech-language clinicians in the school setting, the manual describes therapy techniques used in the Keystone Adolescent Program for Stutterers (KAPS). KAPS emphasizes the Airflow Technique, a self-regulatory approach consisting of two parts: (1) a quiet breathing in and out allowing the breath to flow out a distance before initiating…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biofeedback, Relaxation Training, Secondary Education
Alpern, Ramona Lenny – Academic Therapy, 1984
A speech therapist discusses an approach that combines articulation and language skills beginning with sounds and progressing through multisensory activities to words, phrases, sentences, controlled conversation, and free-flowing conversation. The approach uses therapy based in speech therapy's historical foundations. (CL)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Handicaps, Speech Handicaps
Perkins, William H.; Curlee, Richard F. – J Speech Hearing Disor, 1969
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Exceptional Child Services, Feedback, Speech Handicaps
