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Tuesday, October 30, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Clinic Works with Speech Defects
By KRISTIE MATHERS
Kenton Staff Reporter
Remember how difficult it was to talk the last time you had a cold? Your throat felt scratchy, hearing was a problem and you seemed like if you were talking through a burdack sack.
Fortunately, the inconvenience caused by a cold is temporary. But the inconvenience caused by a speaking and hearing disorder that stems from psychological distress is not temporary. It's on temporary.
Five to 10 per cent of the population in the United States have a significant speech or hearing disability, according to James Lingwall, associate professor of speech pathology and director of the University of Kansas Speech and Hearing Clinic.
"The reason for speech pathology and audiology to exist as a field is that communication is necessary for people. People with defects are cut out from normal exchange."
The inability to communicate affects a person's social life, psychological health and well-being.
Lingwall said that 5 per cent or, conservatively speaking, 500 members of the KU student population probably suffered from a serious speech or hearing problem.
"Yet we don't see but a fraction of that, partly because people don't know we exist, don't know that something can be done or done with it, so we must to us with their problems," said Lingwai.
Work in speech pathology and audiology is an inter-campus program with a clinic at the KU Medical Center and one at KU located on the second floor of Worthing Hall. LINGWALL SAID SHIFT research and trained students to become professional clinicians.
"The service we offer consists of evaluating any and all speech or hearing problems and providing on-going therapy for those who might profit," he said.
Appraisals are given to children, adults and geriatrics clients, Lingwalt said, who have a hearing loss, need to learn up lift. They have had a stroke, stutter or are retarded.
Students to Attend Speech Convention
Faculty and students from the University of Kansas speech and audiology department will attend the Kansas Speech and Hearing Conference on Thursday and Friday in Great Bend.
They will be meeting with state clinicians to hear papers presented on handicapped children, licensing, use of parents in speech therapy and the black dialect.
A total of 250 clinicians are expected to attend the convention.
"We have even taught people, who have had their army removed because of the war, that we don't want to be a slave."
He said that the therapists met three or four times a week with people who had specific problems. Therapy is provided on a year-round basis at no cost to the client, and referrals from medical sources aren't necessary. Lingwall said.
A special program, which Lingwail is currently working on, involves adult stutterers, who attend night school sessions and are not required to receive individual and group therapy.
LINGWALL SAID that each individual stuttering problem was analyzed and then four to six methods of treatment were used to change habitual stuttering.
He said one way to modify repetition of syllables or words was to help the client move through the word by a series of prolongations using it until the word is used to the right number.
Lingwall said he didn't believe in using eimmicks or trick devices like metronomes.
"The individual leaves you," he said.
"When he leaves, he leaves the device and
the keyboard."
He said that he wanted the person to make his own efforts and apply what he learned to
Group therapy provides an opportunity
"Our emphasis for the group as is to modify stuttering behavior itself as opposed to trying to be psychotherapists," he said, "and is psychologically oriented program."
for the stutters to help each other with common problems and speak before a teacher.
At least a dozen current theories exist, he said, concerning the cause of stuttering. These theories deal with emotional causes, physical problems or poor learning habits as the roots of stuttering. All of the theories are correct for certain individuals, Lilwah
THE TERM stuttering includes many different types of stutters, and therefore, a wide variety of stuttering disorders.
Researchers have been probing the causes of stuttering for 40 years, he said, but only within the last five years have shown a rise in stuttering at the possibilities of clinical treatment.
The research conducted at the clinic seeks the best way to treat speech and hearing problems.
The clinic has researched the use of parents in therapy training, the use of operant conditioning on stutterers and other speech disorders, the uses of accusations and children's language acquisition.
"Clients receive help and are part of the
--experiment at the same time,” said Lingwai. “We don't just use them and turn
Instead of merely dismissing the clients, often the therapists check on the client's reactions for several months afterward, he said.
Articulation therapists have a unique manner of checking on the child, he said. "Therapists pretend that they're babysitters for the evening and follow the child in his home setting with a concealed tape recording device."
HE SAID that this type of activity wasn't laboratory research, but clinical research. "My go-button is for our clinic to test procedures as they affect people."
Lingwall said that in the future the need for clinicians might decrease because of the decline in births and advances in prenatal care.
"However, there's a point to the contrary," said Lingwall. "People are living longer and our emphasis may be on working with them," he said.
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Maria Becker, German actress and codirector of Die Schauspieltzeit Zurich touring the theatre company, will recite Gerber's poem in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Becker is visiting the University of Kansas as part of her American and Canadian tour, which is sponsored by the Goethe house of New York. She will recite 19 poems in German, which represent a theme from German poetry from the 17th to the 20th century.
German Actress to Recite Nineteen German Poems
Becker was born in Berlin and comes from a family of actors. Her mother, Maria Fein, and her father, Theodor Becker, also acted in the theatre.
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When the Schule closed during the Hitler regime, Becker attended the Kristi Lyceum in Berlin and then enrolled in the Max Reinhardt Theatre School.
She played her first important role when the actress who was playing Natsushi in *Moonlight* was born.
She traveled to Zurich, where she joined other German actors at the Schausselhaus in Frankfurt.
When the Nazis invaded Austria, Becker fled to England, but she wasn't allowed to act there because she had a German passport.
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