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Johnson, Wendell – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This bulletin is about the inspiring opportunities for rewarding service to be found in meeting the urgent educational needs of children with impaired speech and hearing. If these children are not to carry serious economic and social disadvantages into their adult years, more remedial speech and hearing teachers must be trained to serve them.…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Professional Training, Educational Needs, Speech Impairments
Alme, Ann-Marie – 1985
A study of overt audible speech behavior in eight male and one female Swedish adults examined the relationship between disfluency and speaking modality, disfluency type in mild versus severe stutterers, and disfluency and psycholinguistic variables. Three conditions of experimental manipulation were used: reading aloud, reading the longer lines of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dialogs (Language), Error Patterns, Form Classes (Languages)
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Gregory, Hugo H. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
This commentary reviews the articles in this special issue focusing on treatment of preschool and school-aged students with fluency disorders. The commentary addresses therapy and counseling models, the importance of attending to attitudes among children and parents, service delivery models for school programs, transfer of training, and recent…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Fluency
Adler, Sol, Ed.; King, Deborah A., Ed. – 1994
This book provides an overview of communication disorders and their causes and provides suggestions for strategies to be used by the classroom teacher in collaboration with the speech-language pathologist and audiologist to enhance communication skills development. Chapters have the following titles and authors: "Articulation Disorders" (Rhonda S.…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Cultural Differences
KARLIN, ISAAC W.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ABNORMALITIES OF SPEECH IN CHILDHOOD ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS TEXT DESIGNED FOR PEDIATRICIANS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, EDUCATORS, MEDICAL STUDENTS, THERAPISTS, PATHOLOGISTS, AND PARENTS. THE NORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE IS DISCUSSED, INCLUDING THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF SPEECH IN MAN AND FACTORS INFLUENCING THE NORMAL…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Articulation (Speech), Cerebral Palsy, Children
Krasner, Leonard, Ed.; Ullmann, Leonard P., Ed. – 1967
Fifteen articles by different authors discuss behavior modification in terms of research, training, and social application. Topics considered include the classification of behavioral pathology, the extension of learning principles to human behavior, studies of normal and deviant child behavior, operant conditioning of two speech-deficient boys,…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns
Muma, John Ronald – 1967
Since speech pathologists are interested in the role nonfluent behavior may play in the onset or development of stuttering, this study compared the linguistic behavior of 17 fluent four-year-old children to that of 17 nonfluent children similar in age, intelligence, sex, sibling status, race, socioeconomic status, and education. The aspects of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
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Brisk, Deborah J.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1997
A national survey of school-based speech-language pathologists (N=278) showed some improvement over previous surveys in clinicians' training, confidence, and attitudes about providing assessment and intervention services to school-age children who stutter. Other findings indicated a lower success rate with adolescents and a lack of training in…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Clinical Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Lattermann, Christina; Shenker, Rosalee C.; Thordardottir, Elin – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2005
The Lidcombe Program is an operant treatment for early stuttering. Outcomes indicate that the program is effective; however, the underlying mechanisms leading to a successful reduction of stuttering remain unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine whether fluency achieved with the Lidcombe Program was accompanied by concomitant reduction…
Descriptors: Sentences, Stuttering, Linguistics, Language Impairments
REES, MARYJANE; AND OTHERS – 1967
RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO DETERMINE THE AGE AT WHICH A CHILD WITH A FUNCTIONAL ARTICULATORY DISORDER SHOULD BEGIN THERAPY AND THE FREQUENCY OF THERAPY. THE AUTHORS REJECTED THE SURVEY METHOD BECAUSE OF ITS MANY LIMITATIONS. RESEARCH, USING THE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH, WAS PLANNED TO SCREEN 30,000 CHILDREN, 724 OF WHOM WOULD BE ASSIGNED TO THERAPY,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Tests, Auditory Training, Certification
Hull, Forrest M. – 1969
Preliminary to a survey of a national sample of 40,000 subjects intended to estimate prevalence of speech and hearing disorders in the United States public school population, a mobile unit collected data on a pilot sample of subjects in grades 1 through 12. Speech testing of 6,290 subjects indicated about 85% had articulation which did not deviate…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Articulation Impairments, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Evaluation
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 1968
Communication disorders presentations include the following: expectations of the teacher of the deaf for audiological and psychological services to the young deaf child by Doin E. Hicks; questions and answers on stuttering therapy by Frank J. Falck; the knowledge of words of a deaf child by Toby Silverman; and a comparative study of the modality…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Articulation (Speech), Attention Control, Communication Disorders
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Ratner, Nan Bernstein – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
This study of 20 mothers and their fluent children (ages 3-5) found no significant differences between the effects of instructions to slow maternal speech rate and instructions to slow and simplify maternal speech. Children's speech rate and language complexity did not parallel maternal adjustments, which is problematic for parental involvement in…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Language Fluency
Goldstein, Brian A., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2004
With the increasing number of Spanish-English bilingual children in the U.S., both SLPs and researchers must understand speech and language developments in these children--and SLPs also need reliable assessment and intervention approaches for serving bilingual children with language disorders. This comprehensive text is one of the few to offer…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Spanish Speaking, English
Newman, Parley W. – 1968
The importance of speech is discussed and speech pathology is described. Types of communication disorders considered are articulation disorders, aphasia, facial deformity, hearing loss, stuttering, delayed speech, voice disorders, and cerebral palsy; examples of five disorders are given. Speech pathology is investigated from these aspects: the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Articulation (Speech), Career Opportunities, Careers
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