Reports a study that indicates many functional speech defects at the first grade level are manifestations of slow development and should not be subject to therapy. (MH)

Demonstrates how to achieve completely fluent speech by simulating the effects of Delayed Auditory Feedback. (MB)

Speech disorder decreases as the sample becomes older, the opposite is true of communication apprehension. Special programs of communication therapy" designed to treat communication apprehension should be established. The author discusses how such a program might be established. (Author/MS)

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

Identifies inadequacies" of two developmental theories ofstuttering and argues that such theories are not needed and not useful" for treating stuttering. (Author/SW)

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)

The effectiveness of the Ling System of Speech Training (which uses a systems analysis and task analysis approach to determine speech tasks by level, their prerequisites, and subskills) in facilitating gains in the suprasegmental and segmental aspects of speech and in speech intelligibility was examined with 15 hearing impaired children (5-8 years…

The study was designed to explore whether learning a phoneme in a word-final position facilitated production of the same phoneme word medially or intervocalically in six 3 to 5 year olds with articulation disorders. A stimulus-response-reinforcement approach to treatment was used that elicited both imitative and spontaneous responses. Probe lists…

The authors review and evaluate studies on spontaneous recovery from stuttering in children and conclude that the frequently cited 80% spontaneous recovery figure is too high. They propose that speech-language pathologists abandon the concept of spontaneous recovery when devising clinical management procedures for the stuttering child. (Author/CL)

Thirty-six chronically hoarse children (mean age nine) with nodules were found to be similar to those without nodules on various perceptual measures. Twenty of thirty of these children showed improvements after a year of rehabilitation in the public schools; improvement varied according to the abilities of individual clinicians. (Author/CL)

This study examined the relative benefit of three interventions (i.e. physiological, behavioural, and pragmatic) designed to facilitate speech recognition software use. Participants were 15 adults with dysarthria associated with a variety of aetiological conditions, including cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, and motor neuron disease. Results…

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…