Speech Disorders A Psychological Study of the Various Defects of Speech

PART ITHE NATURE OF SPEECH DISORDERS Chapter I. Speech of Infancy and Early Childhood. Normal speech development—deviations from normal speech—habit formation in speech—the child's native tongue. Chapter II. The Speech of Childhood: Speech Defects Classified, Speech patterns—imagery—classification of disorders of speech. Chapter III. Common Speech Difficulties of Childhood: Dyslexia and Dyslalia, Alalia-mutism—deaf-mutism— alalia physiologica-alalia prolongata—barylalia or cluttering—idiolalia— paralalia or lisping. Chapter IV. Common Speech Difficulties of Childhood {continued): Dyslalia and Dysphemia, Uranoschismatica or cleft-palate speech—the speech of the blind child—speech tests given in American and Austrian schools for the blind. Chapter V. Pathological Conditions affecting the Speech Function: Dysarthria Cerebropathica Chapter VI. Dysphemia—Stuttering. Dysphonia, or Voice Defects, Backgrounds which produce the stutterer. Chapter VII. Dyslogia and Dysphasia, Typical Case Studies PART II STATISTICAL STUDIES OF THE SPEECH OF 3000 COLLEGE WOMEN AND OF PUBLIC SCHOOL GROUPS Chapter VIII. Analysis of Speech Data Sheet for 412 College and Public School Students Chapter IX. Personality, Thurstone Personality Schedule—Trait inventory. Chapter X. Handedness, Jasper-Travis Questionnaire—application to college students in corrective groups. Chapter XI. Oral and Silent Reading, Reading rate for college students—distribution curves for oral and silent reading, based on a seven-year study—median and range—correlations. Chapter XII. Results of Speech Tests. (A) Norms for 3581 Students tested, 1920-31. (B)Classification Of Speech Limitations Comparison with findings for Wisconsin groups— comparison between findings for public school groups in Wisconsin and in Massachusetts. Chapter XIII. Typical Case History Studies

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