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

Samuel Otway Lewis Potter

Date:: 1882

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.

106/132 page 100

$should insist on their use for two weeks at least, and for a longer time, if possible. The object is to secure correct automatism of respiration during speech, and flexibility of the muscles concerned in phonation ; and can only be accomplished by habitual exercise. The monotony of the lessons may be relieved by simple explanations of the functions of respiration and phonation. Even to comparatively well educated persons such teaching will be useful, and the most ordinary intellect will be inter- ested and benefited thereby. Perseverance in the pre- liminary part of the treatment is necessary, as much for its physical influence on the patient as for the reasons above stated. The next step is to exercise the articulating organs in combining consonants with vowels. This can best be commenced by the use of short words beginning with vowels; requiring the patient to sustain the vowel sound, and to place greater stress on it than on the consonant. Each word should be sustained, and no stoppage permitted between words enunciated in one expiration. Thus,— ^ ^ ^ \ \ aw-—-11, inot all—-—]. } oh m, , , T T oh Ider. * :t! ^ * * I aw rder, . ,, ! ! ah fter. I ee n ee ch hou r. After some time on such exercises as the above, say two hours a day for a week, the patient may use words$