| Show Advice on Your Health 1 By Morris Fishbein b Ed Editor r Journal our American n Medical Association S This Is the first of two articles articles arti arti- cles des in which Dr Fishbein dIscusses discusses discusses dis dIs- dis- dis cusses the tho matter of speech training Speech Is the chief characteristic character character- by which we distinguish man manfrom manfrom manfrom from animal It is only recently that schools have given serious attention to the matter of speech In an earlier generation far more stress was placed on writing Twenty-five Twenty or 30 years ago the country was well covered with elocution teachers and many little boys and girls were taught to recite poetry with gestures Nowadays Nowadays Now Now- less attention is paid to such recitation but much more is paid to simple talking for vanous various various vari van ous purposes The statistics seem to show that about 10 per cent of our public public pub pub- lic lie has a speech defect Perhaps one and a half million children stutter and stammer perhaps another another another an an- other million require help for other bad habits of speech Children learn much through imitation Many a child is ruined as to his speech habits by bad habits of his older brothers and sisters by his father and mother and by his playmates who early in his life have taught him Incorrect incorrect incorrect manners of expression When children enter kindergarten ten the teacher soon learns to classify them according to their ability to express themselves Once It was thought that most speech defects were due to some anatomical disturbance Nowadays Nowadays Now Now- ada s 's it is recognized that a small smail per cent certainly less than one per cent of all the cases of defective defective defective de de- de- de speech are duo due to some physical disability and that the vast majority are arc due to bad iad V A recent writer on defective speech has coined the phrase lip laziness to describe those people who hardly trouble to talk corre correctly cor cor- re Pr J rY an realize with i c ri r I. I 1 oJ H tf a moments moment's thought that the ability abil abil- ity to speak distinctly requires certain amount of attention n formation of the sounds exactly as the ability to throw a baseball or swing a golf club requires certain amount of mental mental andi an physical coordination JH When young children are learn may be roaM made to ing to speak they may realize the importance of sp speaKing speaK speaK- k correctly by suitable reward I Ifor ing earl early speech and thus for correct corret in m life be given the necessary distinctly stimulus to speak The words used by the H child are not nearly so in which the wor word as the manner are used Children who liv livel l homes In which the parents SP ape spes and use correct wot wor wOrk distinctly Intel have ordinary will if they wor worin wordin word the same gence learn to use in the same way fi Another expert In speech h WJ that children of u discovered parents educated foreign P J Vj develop a better pronunciation elation of English than dot children of uneducated America America- is of cow coUlS The reason parents orel That that the children of ol learn most of i parents barthe haY bar haYthe gUsh in school where they hey obtain P pure pure- an the chance to I u. u I clear English The ear early y i greatest are arc of the ance |
