A PHONETIC ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF SPEECH PRODUCTION IN FIVE PATIENTS WITH MAJOR RESIDUAL DEFICITS IN ARTICULATION FOLLOWING REMISSION OF MORE WIDESPREAD DISTURBANCE OF VERBAL EXPRESSION. THE FINDINGS DEMONSTRATE MAJOR DISTURBANCE OF SPEECH PRODUCTION AT THE MOST MOLECULAR LEVEL. MAXIMAL DIFFICULTY IN ARTICULATION OCCURRED AT THE BEGINNING PORTION OF…

Investigations in recent years have indicated that only about 20% of the speech output of the deaf is understood by the "person on the street." This lack of intelligibility has been associated with some frequently occurring segmental and suprasegmental errors. Journal Availability: Elsevier North Holland, Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY…

Compensatory articulation patterns on the glossal phonemes were developed clinically in a study of 14 total and 11 partial glossectomees. Following therapy, intelligibility of the former increased from 0-8 percent on admission to 18-24 percent intelligibility; the latter group improved from 6-24 percent to 24-46 percent intelligibility. (Author/KW)

Thirty kindergarteners, 15 who substituted /w/ for /r/ and 15 with correct articulation received two perception tests and a memory test that included /w/ and /r/ in minimally contrastive syllables. (Author)

Describes an apparatus which combines auditory masking, metronomic pacing, and uninterrupted masking in a single unit to aid the stammerer. (MB)

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)

Discussed are speech appliances, devices which may be worn inside the mouth to improve voice resonance. (LS)

The article describes a preliminary model of phonological intervention for use with children with severe functional articulation problems. (Author/CL)

The study examined the speech production strategies used by 4 young children (30- to 32-months-old) with cleft palate and velopharyngeal inadequacy during the early stages of phonological learning. All the children had had primary palatal surgery and were producing primarily single word utterances with a few 2- and 3-word phrases. Analysis of each…

Consideration of directions for future research in stuttering. (CH)

Comparison of the performance on the discrimination task with that on the articulation task revealed that children with articulation disorders had significantly greater difficulty discriminating between consonants separated by one and two features than did the normally speaking children. (Author/RB)