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Show GREENLAND STUDIOS 231 Greenland Bid. & MIAMI, Florida 33147 9 Enctosed please find $9.98 plus 65¢ post. for TWO-WAY TRANSISTOR INTERCOM. §§ Please rush to me at: zip State IN-YOUR NEW HOPE FOR LATE-TALKING CHILDREN By ARTHUR WHITMAN OFFICE! TEACHER atthe Hearing and Speech Center in Grand Rapids, Mich., deliberately drops a block. “Who will pick it up for “See yourself talk”—euch visual me?” she asks. words and knows the meaning of many more. Her IQ has risen to the low 80s, or low normal. Several techniques are used, than constant love and attention. The atmosphere is that of a nursery school with the exciting difference that here the children are urged to talk out in class and often tricked into it (such as the teacher dropping the block). The class allows no parental indulgence, although parents are encouraged to attend. “The children a private agency within the Hear- find speech painful for one reason ing and Speech Center. The class or another,” says one teacher. “They have learned to get what they learned to talk at normal ages. “We used to think you couldn’t correct speech problems in chil- parents have indulged them by adapting to no-speak. We must shew the children that their system doesn’t work here.” As in most nurseries, the children are given fruit juice. One distraught mother recently saw her daughter Kim being given a short ration to insure that she would want more. Kim waved her hands. She was ignored. When tered our efforts on older children, This newest all-transistor INTER-COM is so sensitive it picks up sound as far away as 8 feet, reproduces it loud and clear. Talk back without stopping your work. Here is a TRUE 2-WAY SYSTEM. Persons at EACH speaker can call the other at any time. Even when the set isn't turned on for talking! Serves you 24 hours a day faithfully. 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Our first shipment will go fast at this remarkable price and we aren't promised more for several months. Send just $9.98 plus 65¢ post. but none really amounts to more teaching youngsters who haven't dren under six,” says Dr. Joseph Blanton, the clinical audiologist who founded the class. “We cenmonths in normal use. Uses only as much power asa flashlight and only while you are actually talking. Robin can pronounce about 100 Two small children, Mary and Jeff, run for it, but the teacher restrains them both. “No,tell me first. Say, ‘J will.’ Who will say it first?” The children stare at her, thinking. Finally Jeff makes a few recognizable sounds. “That’s wonderful, Jeff! You may pick it up.” Jeff is learning to speak the way all children do, by mimicry and repetition. The only difference is that Jeff is nearly five years old andis a student in the Special Class for Late-Talking Children, is an experimental program for Now enjoy instant electronic communication in home and office at an amazing break-through price. Talk and listen BOTH WAYS betweenkitchen, nursery, workshop, patio, garage. It even answers the front door for you. And it's a baby sitter that never fails. therapy greatly stimulates speech. so that defective speech wouldn’t keep them out of school. But it became clear that if we could get the kids earlier, many of the problems could be effectively prevented. We've only had about 30some kids to date (ranging in age from 1% to 544), but the results have been fantastic.” Why are somechildren affected with serious speech problems and not others? Speech therapist Lois Margolin, who runs *‘e class, says, “The most common causes are birth defects, hearing loss, and emotional disturbances. The latter two are easier to correct, but birth defects can affect the brain, palate, and larynx, thereby causing serious difficulty.” Take the case of little Robin, five, who suffered brain damage at birth. When she started, she could utter only two syllables. Tests established her IQ at 20, on the semi-vegetable level. Today, after months of work, Ty want without words, and she walked up to get her own juice, the pitcher was moved as if by coincidence. Kim whined angrily and crumpled her paper cup—andthe mother had to be restrained from helping her. Finally, in desperation, Kim tugged at the teacher’s skirt and uttered a few sounds. Only then was she given the juice. Her mother left with a new outlook. Thoughthe class is still in its toddling stage, its future seems clear. “We'll soon work with even younger children,” Mrs. Margolin asserts. “We know that children can be taught to speak under the Proper conditions. From here on, the job is exploring all the possible conditions and then getting the message out so that in the future there will no longer be such a thing as a late-talking child.” Family Weekly, January 7, 1968 ee |