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A Comparsion Of Verbal Abilities Of Adult Aphasic Speakers : Pica Verbal Subtests And Word-Morpheme Means, Joann Uhley

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine whether correlations existed between a measure of linguistic complexity in spontaneous speech and performance on the four verbal subtests of the PICA.

A Survey Of The Articulation Of The Children Of The Madison School, Stockton, California, James Robertson Mcdearmon

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study (1) to throw light upon specific speech needs of pupils in one of the elementary schools in Stockton; (2) to throw light on the status of speech in a school population among which the factors of low I.Q. retarded academic progress, exceptionally limited economic background, and racial and national differences, and relatively small; (3) by extension, to indicate something more generally regarding the speech needs of such children of whom the pupils surveyed tended to be a representative group; (4) to find indication of the influence of the factor of chronological age upon …

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 …