RT Journal
T1 CHildren with delayed or defective speech.
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1939
FD March 1
VO 57
IS 3
SP 729
OP 729
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990030243023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990030243023
AB This small volume graphically analyzes the mechanism of voice production and gives an interesting exposition of the rather simple methods by which speech defects may be corrected. The first half of the book is less engagingly written than the rest and seems in places unnecessarily involved.Along with hearing defects as a cause of speech difficulties are considered psychologic factors and failure of coordinate development of association centers. It is stressed that what may pass for low mentality in children may be only the failure of the proper development of the patterns of speech and that correction of this may markedly raise the apparent level of intelligence. The point is made that there is a particular period for the easy and normal development of speech but that if the opportunity is postponed by disease, faulty training or mental stress there may later be a refractory period, when training is difficult.