Abstract

Every one whose practice has anything to do with children realizes that the time is ripe for the development of a program for the study of the problems of defective speech, for about 5 per cent, of all children have some form of speech disorder. Institutions, boards of education and child welfare centers everywhere are asking for physicians to enlighten them on the prevention and correction of speech disorders. Disorders of speech are increasing, partly because of the great revival of interest in education since the World War, as our system of public school training favors the production of more crowding, more psychoneuroses and more defects of all kinds, including speech disorders. Many foreigners in the larger cities who are learning to speak English at school are forced to speak their native language at home; this conflict often produces some form of speech defect. The World War has been followed

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