To the Editor
Correspondence.
Dear Sir, Of late there seems to be a growing interest in the subject oif Speech-training generally, and more particularly is that interest being aroused amongst teachers of mentally defective children.
The reason for this, no doubt, is that the teacher of defective children meets in her experience many cases where corrective Speech-training is needed. I should be very grateful if any such teachers would be good enough to let me know what speech defects are commonest amongst the pupils who attend the Schools for Defective and Backward Children.
Are the defects most frequently met with due to :?
(i.) Lack of breath control and a consequent failure to sustain voice? or (2.) to the wrong pronunciation of vowel sounds? or (3.) to the imperfect articulation of consonants ?
How many of the children who have faulty speech are aware of their defects, and if so, do they evince any desire to learn to correct them ?
Teachers everywhere are working at these problems and are attacking such cases individually. Can we not, by means of an open Correspondence in this paper help each other by an interchange of ideas and of experience zs to our methods of dealing with these difficulties?
I am etc. I. M. Goldsack. Faculty of Education, Manchester University. December Sth, 1919
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