Show I y Y Your Doctor fI f The Th following i it isone on art o of 0 a II series iJ o of 01 Articles iel b by Members mb cf the Utah Ulah Stale Slate Medical Idica and published in co cooperation ort with rOil vout oral local newspaper paP These Their did articles are Ic Jud lo to appear t U try oilier oil week Ir the Ihl year veer in art an 0 effort abi to a bi teller better l acquaint you how ro with Problems of o 4 and 4 to improve m ot the It wt veil being air o othe the 1 o vi Utah Ulal j i P D' D 1 YN IlI DIl I In Iq an f difficulties In speech l fay nt the time d cJ the tle initial initial t otma orma ormay arise veral YeI gears gears' S after aCter the child child has Begun to to i se spoken language I Theft Therl The ay 1 be disorders in the articulation of sounds In Inthe the pitch or r tIr tI bre of the voice in the tree free flowing rhythm of the words which are arc used or slowness in the begin nin nine of ot speech The The Tho reasons for tor these problems are multiple and varied Sometimes there is a physical factor behind them such as a. defective hearing hearing- growths or infections of the nose or throat or structural abnormal abnormal- tic tlc The question of organic disorder disorder disorder dis dis- dis- dis order should always be explored and corrected as far as possible when a child is having trouble learning to speak intelligibly Severe illness ani especially illness illness Involving involving the throat throat throat-or Or mouth experienced ex at the time when the child would ordinarily be learning to talk can have a very a ing effect on the development of speech It is also true that attitudes atti atU- tudes of l parents parents' such as encouraging In ing baby talk anticipating the childs child's needs without encouraging him to use words nut allowing him him the very essential period of i Infant Babbling or that he use long tong words or connected words before he is s ready can cnn have an adverse effect If the child can cant t what he needs without intelligible ble speech or if on the other hand too much is In expected of him himIn himIn himin In the way of speech he is unwilling un un- willing willin to try J Attempts to change a child from Irom t the e lei lef to the right right- hand band roa may cause difficult tn in n speaking r too The part art of ot th the brain ln which hl h controls con troll trois o or r choice of hands is la the th J same lame me area arca of ot the brain which con con- trots ou our speech Inn Inasmuch much we d dI do doIe doi i Ie learn nil all of ot our letters at the th same time parents should not be betil til discouraged scour a Red If their child has no not bf learned eared learned all of oi his hla more difficult ettere etter such uch lis s a S 3 L o or ot n RT M the by by the me rte he a enters school I far By Byi th most common o of speech pr problems that of stutt tutt Bring ering or stammering The cause of Btu U Bt rr are multiple not e ea dl SUY without t study Most hu human beings w will Uj s l times time w when cn they are flooded excitement excitement- or OJ oi j Athe th 1 Strong ems emo have p periods periods- rf ds' ds wOOt n they haVe re difficulty m a h l fI t Jr r h ir speech Ea Especially is ts this frU true bf of children maa mastery ery of speech ij Is still precarious at best Parental attitudes Way pIny a abig big part in deter determining deter mining whether thle remains an an occasional thing or develops into a patterning of response that that be becomes becomes be be- comes a n source of continuing pal pain air and embarrassment to the tho child child If f the pare parent t reacts with Imp im- p Hence annoyance or shame to his hili childs child's stuttering or if the parent overprotects his child by prompting substituting words speaking for him him or by avoiding a situations ns where he he is required to speak the child will accept what hat he considers to bei ba his parents parent's estimate of himself as a person with witha a shameful defect which must be b hidden yay a and a and consequently his his' stuttering will Win become worse Early stuttering stuttering- should hould be b be handled in iri in r o ra a matter fact and unemotional way Vay with no no being made of it whatever At eft Atthe I Ithe the s same came rne time since since- J a a. a great role Jn in stuttering child should be relieved of as much i emotional stress as possible After the stuttering has continued to th the point where the child chUd develops secondary ways of controlling it by spasms head jerks jerks' or other I devices it becomes very difficult to treat treat- Unfortunately the emotional emotional emo emo- I emo I problems problems' behind the ti st stutter ing are then increased t bY y the SOcI social l penalties arising from the stuttering itself Speech therapy and or psychiatric treatment b becomes becomes be- be comes quite essential at this point |