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Show Clink helps children overcome problems Ever wonder what it would be like to have problems of ! hearing? How you would feel ' if your speech was not quite ' up to par? Or what to do in ; case of a language problem? ' Well for 20 young students from Iron County those prob. lems are real. The problems are taxing problems that require re-quire extra work, extra training train-ing and extra care and patience. pa-tience. Those extras have been provided pro-vided for the past six weeks by the Special Speech, Hear-lng Hear-lng and Language Clinic con-ducted con-ducted in Cedar City through the ausplcies of the State Health Department. , The clinic is one of 10 being be-ing conducted throughout the state and is a major step forward for-ward from the one single clinic clin-ic held in Salt Lake City that was offered to students with these problems not too many years ago, according to Llndy Neilsen, Speech and Hearing Pathologist from Iron County who has directed the clinic. The clinic is -held each week day at the East Elementary where facilities are provided by the Iron County School District as a cooperative par, tlcipant in the clinic. Friday is the special day for n I 1 I the 20 students, it is the day that the students participate in a field rip, or a special activity. ac-tivity. This week will end the GENTLY NOW. John Taylor of the Plaza Pet Shop gives students attending attend-ing speech and hearing clinic an opportunity op-portunity to see monkey up close. Stu dents tentatively pet animal. The experience ex-perience is one of several enjoyed by students during six weeks clinic. i -7 ; i Houston, Speech Clinitian from the South West Media Center, Judy Fletcher, Vanna Richardson, Shauna Nielsen and Wendell Hunt, education students from Southern Utah State College. The children range In age from 4Va to 12. Problems include in-clude total deafness, articu-latory articu-latory problems (incorrect sounds) and language problems. course and for those who want to, they will be given an airplane ride. Last week John Taylor of the Plaza Pet Shop provided the treat when he came with his animals to talk about them and to show the children child-ren the monkeya special treat turtle, a parrot, rabbits, mice and other animals and to explain where they came from, what they eat and other Interesting Information. Assisting Neilsen at the Clinic have been Hearman have been to the fire station, to 'Ron and Cris Bakery, where they saw cookies mixed, popped pop-ped into the oven and were served to them. They enjoyed a birthday party at the city park and they attended a rehearsal re-hearsal of the Shakespearean Festival where Michael Fin. layson and Dr. Gabel explain, ed the play and the special musical instruments used In the authentic production. The clinic has emphasized activity and thaputic ele. ments to help eliminate the problems. Field trips provide an outlet out-let from the regular clinic studies. They have included fishing trip to Wood's Ranch pond where the Fish and Game had planted 350 fish for the special occasion. They made a trip to the Circus ' when it was in town. They "There is a lot of satisfaction satisfac-tion in the clinic," Nielsen stated. "Any time you have the opportunity to help a child overcome a handicap, or make a step toward recovery from that handicap, it's impossible im-possible not to be touched and pleased," he indicated. But that's what the clinic is all about. Helping young peo. pie with problems to overcome over-come those, problems. |