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A Syllabus Of Techniques For Correction Of Speech Defects, William O. Pugh

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem is to survey the significant reference materials in the field of speech correction in order to ascertain and compile in digest-form those explanations of corrective techniques that are most valid with respect to consistency, both intrinsic and comparative.

Better Than Nothing, But..., Lyman M. Partridge

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

While the majority of parents, teachers and administrators are fully aware of the importance of a program of hearing conservation in the schools and readily endorse one, I am convinced that they are not aware of the serious inadequacies of the method of testing the hearing ability of school children that is generally used throughout the state of Washington.

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. …

Speech Development Aids Elementary Pupils, Amanda Katherine Hebeler

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Speech is one of the most obvious indicators of the child's development when he enters school. The five-year-old child should be able to do the following when he enters Kindergarten: a. Express his needs and thoughts in short sentences. b. Use a vocabulary of meaningful words when speaking of common every-day experience. c. Enunciate and pronounce words clearly enough to be understood, not using baby talk. About this same level of achievement should be expected of the six-year-old who has not had Kindergarten.

The Relation Of Medical Treatment To Speech Defects, Agnes Rosemary Lewnik

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to test the historical and present day methods to determine the place of medical treatment in the field of speech correction. First, we can view the field of history to determine what conditions of mind and body were considered as defects of speech; and secondly, what treatment was offered as a method of cure. We pan again consider the organs of speech and notice the diseases involving such organs. We then can look to the methods in the field and determine if medical treatment is or is not a required procedure.

Developing A Speech Consciousness, Hazel Katherine Pritchard

Bachelors’ Theses

An attempt to awaken an ideal in speech in the community is of vital importance. There is a need for intelligible, clear, forceful, speech with accuracy, precision, and delicacy, as outstanding characteristics. Proper provision should be made to remedy the present situation which fails to conform with this criterion. "Good speech ls universally recognized today as an economic, social, and cultural asset of the first rank. Yet in the United States the problem of defective speech grows daily more acute."