Abstract
THE MANAGEMENT of speech disorders during World War II has been outlined in several previous communications 1 from this clinic (Brooke General Hospital, May 7, 1943 to Feb. 22, 1945; McGuire General Hospital, Feb. 22, 1945 to April 1, 1946; Valley Forge General Hospital, April 1, 1946 to date). A survey of all other hospitals with speech facilities attached to the United States and British armies was also carried out. The findings demonstrated conclusively that dyslalia and dysphasia were the most common speech defects encountered and that dysphonia was only infrequently observed. The rarity of phonatory problems is further emphasized as this study includes material collected from a maxillofacial center (Valley Forge General Hospital). In this respect, complete statistics will probably never be available, for several reasons: First, the characteristics of the voice attendant on wounds of this type are not always mentioned. Second, laryngeal injuries are not uncommonly included with
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