The Defective in Speech
by
Mildred Freburg Berry, Rockford College
and
Jon Eisenson, Queens College
Appleton-Century Crofts, Inc. NY, 1942
Part 1: Introductory considerations
I. The normal development of speech
II. Governors of speech: The role of mind and body
III. A mental and physical portrait of the defective in speech
Part 2: The major types of speech disorders
IV. The slow of tongue: Articulatory disturbances
V. The slow of tongue (continued): Baby talk, lisping, cluttering, lalling
VI. Re-educating the slow of tongue: Articulatory exercises
VII. Your voice betrays you
VIII. Improving the voice: Exercises
IX. Halted speech: The stutterer
X. A therapy for stutterers
XI. The brain injured (dysphasia)
Part 3: The atypical child and speech
XII. The child with delayed speech
XIII. Now that the palate has been repaired
XIV. The motor-defective child (the speech of the cerebral palsied)
XV. The hard-of-hearing child
XVI. The blink
XVII. The mentally deficient child
Appendices
I. The phonetic alphabet and key.
II. The speech inventory
III. Testing the child's vocabulary of sounds
IV. The structure and functions of the earl
V. Tests of hearing
VI. Testing pitch discrimination, tonal memory and the sense of rhythm
VII. Measuring laterality