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The Correlation Of Various Factors With The Speech Attitudes Of Students Enrolled At Lodi Academy During 1952-1953, Lucile Sherrig-Roth

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study to determine by means of standardized tests and questionnaires which of the following thirteen factors, if any, may have affected the speech attitudes, as evaluated by Knower's Speech Attitude Scale, Form F,³ of students enrolled in Lodi Academy at the time of the testing: Physical--age, articulation, sex; Educational--grade level, oral reading, scholarship, silent reading; Psychological--emotional adjustment, intelligence, residence with parents, size of family, social adjustment, and unity of religious beliefs.

A Study Of The Speech Abilities Of 150 Teacher Credential Candidates, Yvonne Pearson Schoell

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study is aimed at analyzing the speech adequacy of credential candidates. It is hoped that the results will suggest a type of speech training, in terms of a specific course, which will be beneficial to those candidates who are in need of speech help. If what the candidates as a whole seem to need and what they seem to have acquired through speech training is known, a course designed along the lines of these speech needs can be more easily constructed.

In general, this thesis will attempt to answer the following questions: (1) What type of speech training would …

An Investigation Of Parental Influence On The Speech Development Of The Child, Margaret Bradshaw Ropolo

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Relatively little material has been written about teaching a child to speak. That a child does learn to talk seems well supported by most authorities; and this is based upon experimental evidence. Just how a child can be taught to speak is not so widely discussed. Many writers have ignored this aspect of speech development, and the author is inclined to believe that many parents are completely unaware of it. The number of speech defectives in the country today indicates widespread ignorance of this problem.

It is the purpose of this study (1) to show how parents can aid the …

A Study Of The Relationship Of Speech Ability And Success As A Minister In Northern California, John Edward Baird

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Probably nothing I could write would better serve to introduce this study than the comments of one woman who wrote to me in answer to a questionnaire about her pastor I know nothing of her training in the field and I cannot reveal her nemo here, but some of the advice she gives night well have come from a homiletics textbook. She says:

A Study Of Speech Deviations Of The Elementary School Children Of The Shasta County Schools, School Year 1941-1942, Ocea H. Mcmurry

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Since the 1930's Speech Correction has become an accepted and established part of the curriculum of many of the large, progressive public school systems of the United States, along with marked progress in the other field of Speech. For some years, speech magazines have been publishing tabulations of speech surveys made in thee city school systems. However, there is a notable lack of speech surveys made of country school districts; because there is little being done for rural, speech-handicapped child.

In September 1937, a speech-correction, speech-improvement program was established to reach every school child in a ¹ California rural country. …