Speech and its defects : considered physiologically, pathologically, historically, and remedially / by Samuel O.L. Potter.

  • Samuel Otway Lewis Potter
Date:
1882
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Credit: Speech and its defects : considered physiologically, pathologically, historically, and remedially / by Samuel O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The instructor should work out a series for himself on the lines herein pointed out. [The asterisk denotes inspiration ; the exclamation point, holding the breath ; the dots, expiration; the dash, sustainment of the pre- ceding vowel during expiration.] Next the patient may pronounce the vowel sounds, noticing carefully the relative positions of his larynx, mouth and lips, for each. ♦ ♦ H? ^ :;: :J: :^ ^ ^ ^ :^ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ jj: :^ :J: :^ ee ay ah aw oh 00 The vowel sounds should be well sustained during expiration, and the passage from the one to the other effected gradually and smoothly. The instructor will find a baton useful to mark the inspiration and expir- ation, and the cadence of the exercises. In this way the phonation exercises may be combined with those for the respiration, in innumerable variety, by the exercise of a little ingenuity on the part of the teacher. A word of caution is necessary here. Such exercises as the foregoing, kept up twice a day for an hour each time, will soon become monotonous, and are apt to be resisted by adult patients who cannot appreciate the necessity for systematically doing, over and over again, actions which they can perform with perfect ease. But the teacher
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