Showing papers on "Speech Therapist published in 1968"

Some Aspects of Assessment

Abstract: Far too many studies in speech therapy hitherto have been directed towards ascertaining and categorising the aetiology of language delay. Thus it is important that current research should include the examination of the difficulties experienced by some children in acquiring language by reference to the systematic methods of investigation used by linguists. Thus the first task must be to analyse the structure of deviant language for as Jakobson (1956) states “… to study adequately breakdown in communication we must first understand the nature and structure of the particular mode of communication that has ceased to function”. The aim should be to apply linguistics to all facets of speech pathology in order to demonstrate the relevance of studying deviant language by comparison with theories of how language functions as a medium of communication. The observations made by linguist and speech therapist, working together on clinical problems, should form a basis for further investigations to be carried on by psy...

Use of concurrent response categories in evaluating talking behavior in aphasic patients.

Abstract: Two raters scored the verbal interactions of two aphasic patients and their spouses into 15 concurrent response categories. These simultaneously recorded response categories include such characteristic deficit areas in aphasic patients as word production, sentence production, relevance and unclear and perseverative utterances. An over-all product-moment r of .98 was obtained between the ratings of the judges. The usefulness to the aphasia researcher and to the speech therapist of recording data in this manner was discussed.