IN recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in non-fluent utterance and a
subjecting to scientific scrutiny many of the plausible assumptions made in the past both …

THERAPY of any kind is concerned with creating the most favourable conditions for the
attainment or return to a functional norm. The speech therapist is interested in verbal …

One function of the linguistic sciences is the recording and analysing of complex linguistic
behaviour and the search for system and structure in that behaviour. At all linguistic levels …

Two groups of non-fluent adolescent and adult subjects were studied, twenty who attended
regularly at the hospital clinic and one hundred and twenty six who used the electronic …

This paper reviews the size of the speech and language-disabled population in the United
Kingdom by client groups and attempts to determine (1) those for whom speech therapy …

Stutterers come for help because their disorder of speech is a nuisance that impedes their
ability to communicate and generates unpleasant affects when they contemplate doing what …

An Interdisciplinary Seminar like the present1 might perhaps be interested in reviewing
some more recent developments in phonetic studies; not, of course, merely for the sake of …

Each of us who has worked with people who have fluency problems has seen dysfluents
whose speech behaviours vary markedly and whose environmental and/or organic case …

DURING the present century in Great Britain as in many other countries of the world, there
has been a general awakening to the importance of speech as a means of communication …

The paper presents a short review of the ideas and aims of previous linguistic studies of
articulation disorders. The traditional, now unsatisfactory, definition of “dyslalia” is critically …