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CHARLES H. VOELKER, M.A.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1943;38(3):261-264.

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Although the American Speech Correction Association is anxious to establish phoniatry as the twenty-seventh medical speciality, little progress has been made except at Rush Medical College. At Edinburgh, Scotland, and on the Continent phoniatry has always been a medical practice. Meanwhile, American scientists, working with this aim, are carrying on as clinical phoneticians, building up a body of knowledge, in close cooperation with pediatricians, otolaryngologists, neurologists and psychiatrists. The present study is an attempt to evaluate what these physicians may expect when they refer one of their patients to a clinic for speech therapy. It will illustrate the efficiency of phoniatric practice by giving the results of post-therapy observation over a period of ten years on 2,000 speech-defective subjects.

I well remember the psychologic clinic lessons of Dr. F. N. Maxfield, of Ohio State University, and Dr. David Mitchell, of New York, which stressed the importance of clinical observation after . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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STILLWATER, OKLA.

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