The effects of a parent administered home therapy program of verbal stimulation used to treat articulatory deficits were investigated with 32 inarticulate elementary school age retarded children in Yugoslavia. Treatment was found to be associated with an increase in articulatory competence in both moderately and profoundly retarded Ss. (Author/DLS)

Twenty-six children and adolescents who were unable to produce /r/ correctly listened to a tape of 200 words containing /r/ spoken, either correctly or incorrectly, by either the subjects themselves or another speaker. Subjects judged both the correctness of the /r/ and the speaker's identity. Results support a relationship between speech…

Many speakers with repaired cleft palate have reduced intelligibility, but there are limitations with current procedures for assessing intelligibility. The aim of this study was to construct a single-word intelligibility test for speakers with cleft palate. The test used a multiple-choice identification format, and was based on phonetic contrasts…

A TWO-PHASE PROJECT CONCERNED WITH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEECH THERAPY WITH EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED (EMR) CHILDREN IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL SETTING HAD TWO OBJECTIVES--TO ASSEMBLE A REASONABLY COMPLETE PICTURE OF ARTICULATION OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN AND TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF SPEECH THERAPY TO EMR CHILDREN WITH ARTICULATION…

THE AUTOMATED SPEECH CORRECTION PROGRAM (ASCP) WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE USE OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN THE REMEDIATION OF FUNCTIONAL ARTICULATION ERRORS. A SERIES OF PROGRAMED TAPES WHICH TAKE THE STUDENT THROUGH AUDITORY IDENTIFICATION, AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION, PRODUCTION, AND SELF-EVALUATION WERE DESIGNED. SUB-GOALS OF THE EXPERIMENT WERE A…

A RATIONALE FOR SPEECH AND HEARING PROGRAM RECORD KEEPING AND REPORTING IS PRESENTED ALONG WITH A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF FORMS. FORMS ARE AVAILABLE TO COVER ALL SITUATIONS IN DIAGNOSIS AND PROGRESS, COMMUNICATION TO OTHER PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE, AND COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS. (MK)

A study was conducted to investigate methods of grouping children in grades 1 and 2 in a speech and hearing therapy program, and to determine the prevalence of certain auditory skills and deviant swallowing behavior associated with articulation problems. A screening test of articulation identified 255 control and 255 experimental subjects. A test…

The purposes of the project described were to demonstrate the use of innovative stimulus shift techniques in articulation and language training, and to experiment with use of motion picture photography in the education and instruction of clinicians and therapists working with speech handicapped children. A 37-minute sound color film was produced…

Four 5-minute films on articulation were produced and evaluated for a study on the effectiveness of film in providing preservice clinical experience for speech clinicians. Subjects were divided into experimental groups composed of students in an introductory speech course (Group One), beginning speech majors (Group Two), experienced speech…

The reliability and efficiency of clinician scorings of children's consonant articulation in a sentence repetition task was evaluated for 12 student clinicians and 9 articulation disordered children (4-7 years old). Results indicated high reliability and efficiency as well as a correspondence between the task and spontaneous speech errors.…

Disordered processes and severity levels identified by the "Assessment of Phonological Processes" measure were compared with those obtained from three more easily administered conventional articulation tests in a case study of a phonologically disordered preschool child. Results indicated some adaptations and careful analysis are…