Part of a doctoral dissertation completed at the Louisiana State University. Summary presented at National Convention of American Speech and Hearing Association (44th, Denver, 1968). (Author)

Contrary to previous research, it was found that tests of auditory discrimination were not likely to differentiate between learning disabled children and nonlearning disabled children unless both groups were also articulatory defective. (Author)

This case study describes an adolescent with multiple articulation errors. Comparison with previous studies found this individual demonstrated longer phrase durations and more variability than either normally articulating or speech-disordered and language-disordered children. Interaction between syntactic and articulatory performance was also…

Advocated is a system of articulation instruction based on choosing a distinctive feature, as opposed to a single phoneme, as the remediation target, and outlined are measurement steps for the selection of target phonemes for treatment. (LS)

A delayed judgment test of speech-sound discrimination was correlated with measures of articulation status and articulation improvement with training in two groups of subjects (8 and 9-years-old), an /r/ group and an /s/ group. (Author/IM)

A procedure is presented for teaching unintelligible children to achieve syllable closure and improve syllable shape through the use of chaining. Chaining can simultaneously teach consonants in pre, post, and intervocalic contexts using functional phrase combinations. A case study of a five-year-old boy treated in kindergarten is included.…

Article discussed speech defects and how to correct them. (RK)