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She had discovered that the air in the buccal cavity could be used to her advantage before she came for Speech Therapy, and that by "spitting" out noiseless words and syllabus at people she could make herself understood
The first Laryngectomy case I saw treated for oesophageal speech was a wcman of some seventy odd years, and perhaps she was not a very fortunate subject for my first introduction - both her age and sex were against her
Their fashions are against them - the trachyotomy tube and the opening in the trachea is so conveniently camouflaged by man's collar and tie
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She had discovered that the air in the buccal cavity could be used to her advantage before she came for Speech Therapy, and that by "spitting" out noiseless words and syllabus at people she could make herself understood. MY EXPERIENCE OF LARYNGECTOMIES AND OESOPHAGEAL SPEECH L.C.S.T. The first Laryngectomy case I saw treated for oesophageal speech was a wcman of some seventy odd years, and perhaps she was not a very fortunate subject for my first introduction - both her age and sex were against her. Having resorted to this exaggerated use of the articulating organs it was all the harder for her to learn oesophageal speech.
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