Date of Award:

5-1966

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

Department name when degree awarded

Audiology-Speech Pathology

Committee Chair(s)

Jay R. Jensen

Committee

Jay R. Jensen

Committee

Samuel C. Fletcher

Committee

Ray Neville

Committee

Donald Sisson

Abstract

Children afflicted with speech disorders represent the largest single group of exceptional children. The numbers of speech defectives reach between 2 and 2½ million or about 5% of the population (Johnson et al., 1956). Newman (1961) has disputed this claim and has stressed the difference to be made between speech differences and handicapping conditions:

It can be confidently stated that 5% of the population categorized speech handicapped, have speech differences of such a nature that the differences can be pointed out, recorded, classified, or quantified in some reliable manner. But that does not necessarily make the conditions handicapping or impairing. The commonly accepted prevalence figures may be relatively meaningless until a definition of speech impairment is empirically derived which distinguishes between a speech difference, and a speech difference that impairs the person's economic, social or emotional well-being. (Newman, 1961, p.10)

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