A prototype voice visualizer was constructed and a program of instructional materials designed to teach discrimination of minimally paired vowel or consonant sounds. Two groups of 24 deaf children with poor articulatory ability received instruction twice weekly for 4 months; also, a group of eight deaf children with good speech participated in…

The manual was prepared for use by the classroom teacher who has the opportunity daily to incorporate oral language activities into subject matter. The program is to cover a two year period (level I for 5 and 6 year olds and level II for 7 and 8 year olds). The lessons have been planned as a supplement to daily classroom instruction. Three major…

Theory and laboratory research in operant behavior are applied to clinical practice in speech pathology. Introductory material summarizes the principles of operant conditioning as related to speech therapy. Clinical application is presented in the following areas: reinforcing properties of a television presented listener; reduction of reading and…

Spanish spoken in Mexico City is influenced considerably more by indigenous dialects than by archaic or present usage of peninsular Spanish. Six areas in particular fall under this influence: (1) the phoneme "s", treated as a palative and fricative sound, (2) voiced "s", which is dental alveolar and affricate, (3) "t"…

This report (for January 1--June 30, 1970) is one of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation and practical application thereof. Extended reports and manuscripts cover the following topics: Hemispheric Specialization for Speech Perception; Ear Differences in the Recall of…

To explore the adequacy of a 50-word list, produced by item analysis of a set of 160 words in an earlier study, also by Tikofsky, tape recordings of 20 adult dysarthrics reading list were evaluated by university students who were native speakers of English and had no history of hearing loss. Results of the intelligibility study showed that the…

This booklet presents a brief description of human neurological development and outlines a program for children designed to establish neurological organization through movement. The patterns of movement are divided into six areas: (1) General Movement Patterns (such as head rolls, crawling, cross-pattern creeping and walking, running, skipping,…

This workbook provides written exercises integrated with the listening and production exercises in the "Manual of Articulatory Phonetics" (FL 002 882) These exercises are of five principal kinds--drawing of facial diagrams, transcription, matching of symbols, English phonemic transcription, and English vowel phonemes. Materials in the workbook are…

Manual English, which involves signing a word with the hands while saying it, has been used successfully to develop language skills in mentally handicapped students (3-21 years old) in public schools. (SB)

Illustrates how the use of an appropriately designed keyboard can help with the learning of a set of symbols for transcribing English and at the same time provide learners of English with a picture of its phonological system. Although the computer has an instrumental role in the development of the idea, it is not essential for its implementation.…

Four children, aged three-five years, were assigned to one of two phonologically based treatment procedures--a minimal pairs contrasting procedure or a modified cycles procedure. Clinical treatment results demonstrated that both treatments were effective and efficient and that correct production generalized to sounds that were not a focus of…

The study reports quasilongitudinal data on 10 children at 2:0 and 2:5, and another 10 children at 2:9 and 3:3. The analysis included word-initial and word-final phonetic inventories of consonant singletons and clusters and a summary of the relative frequency of seven word shapes. (Author/JDD)

Described is a program of the Los Angeles Unified School District to train 15 paid speech aides and 15 volunteers to provide remedial instruction for 261 pupils (4-12 years old) with either articulation disorders or potential speech problems. (DB)

This study examined the quality of three English vowels and their Korean counterpart vowels by measuring F1/F2 frequencies and investigating how the different vowel qualities influenced consonant voicing. Participants were six native speakers (NS) of English and six NS of Korean who were graduate students at a large U.S. university. F1/F2…