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SummaryThis paper reports the setting up, and first year's trial of two intervention programmes for preschool children who present with delayed language development. Both programmes are based on the same theoretical model, with the focus on the intellectual aspects of language.*** (a) In the Language Clinic programme parents and child are seen every six weeks by a speech therapist for ongoing advice on how to help the child's language development in daily living at home, (b) In the Language Classes the children attend for half days every day, under the direction of a qualified teacher. The programmes and assessment procedures are described, and tentative findings after a year's trial are reported. The large majority of the children in both programmes made accelerated progress in receptive and expressive aspects of language development.

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011613

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThis paper is a schematic attempt to synthesise a heterogeneity of therapeutic methods by specifying them in terms of a common framework of defining criteria. It characterises first a concept of code, regarded as more generic than the term language, the defining criteria of the framework and proceeds to classify speech and commonly used alternatives to speech in terms of the framework. It goes on to point out the relevance of the framework to remediation, and characterise further therapeutic alternatives.

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011614

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThis is a brief account of a pilot study which was conducted in an attempt to discover which factors of voice quality were most likely, in the opinion of speech therapists, to require treatment, and the extent to which therapists agreed amongst themselves. Twenty‐five raters comprising sixteen qualified therapists and nine third year students were asked to assess tape recordings in terms of nasality, pitch deviation, hoarseness, breathiness and stridency. The scores were entered by each rater on a chart drawn up for the purpose, and raters were invited to judge whether or not they considered the voices to be in need of therapy. Each aspect of voice quality was correlated to ascertain whether or not it was significantly related to therapy and certain aspects were intercorrelated to discover the degree of variance or agreement between rater

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011615

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThis study of 49 male laryngectomized patients was conducted to determine the relationship between degree of mastery of esophageal speech and various educational and psychologic factors. Three variables were found to correlate significantly with the final speech proficiency rating: initial speech proficiency rating, depression (MMPI scale 2), and educational level. The results indicate that age and the educational and psychologic variables investigated in this study are not as important to success in learning esophageal speech as indicated by previous authors. However, those variables may be important in individual cases.

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011616

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryTwo intra oral training appliances have been developed to assist in the treatment of patients with hypernasal speech. One of these incorporates a visual aid which is used by the patient during frequent practice at home. This preliminary report describes their construction, discusses their possible mode of action, and indicates how they may be used.

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011617

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryChildren in residential and non‐residential stuttering therapy used a questionnaire to evaluate the effects of the two programs. Results showed impressions of significantly greater improvement in speech fluency following residential therapy. Speech data supported the questionnaire findings in terms of the magnitude of stuttering severity change in pre‐ vs. post‐therapy recordings. The results are related to differences in the pre‐therapy stuttering frequency of subjects and the nature of the two programs. Subjects' impressions following the non‐residential program were that its primary effects were related to improvement in morale. Possibilities for altering this program to increase its effectiveness upon speech fluency are

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011618

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe purpose of this project was to determine the short term effects of systematic desensitization via imagery on the severity of stuttering in a group of adult stutterers. These effects were compared with those obtained through the use of a traditional symptomatic therapy approach with another group of adult stutterers. The two groups of stutterers were matched for stuttering severity. Within the short time span of this study, both groups attained significant improvement using numbers of blocks and block duration ratios as measures of severity. There were no significant differences of improvement between the two groups. There was also a lack of correspondence between the severity of stuttering and the level of speech anxiety in various situations.

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011619

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe paper argues against the common practice of estimating mental age on the basis of a score on a test of a specific ability, usually receptive vocabulary. It shows how a relatively high vocabulary age may be achieved on E.P.V.T. by subnormal children and stresses the danger of using this as a mental age estimate especially in subnormality research where a mental age matching paradigm is employed using normal and subnormal children.

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011620

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011621

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Phonetic Lexicon. By Denyse Rockey. Heyden and Son., Ltd., 1973.The Working Brain. By A. R. Luria. Penguin Education. 1973.Holiday Project ‘73. An experimental holiday for aphasic children. Published by The Association for All Speech Impaired Childre

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827409011622

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY