University Dailly Kansan
Tuesday, October 2, 1979
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Speech graduates help stutterers overcome silence
By HAROLD CAMPBELL
By HAROLD CAMPBELI
Staff Reporter
The teacher asks Bob his name
Instead of answering immediately, Bob's lips tense and no sound emerges.
After a moment of silence, the teacher says, "Now, when I lower my pencil, say your name."
When the teacher lows his pencil, Bob hesitates slightly on the first "b" "Bob," he says, grinning widely after he completes the
The teacher, Jim Lingwal, director of the KU department of speech pathology and audiology, supervises a every Tuesday for five KU students for five KU students like Bob who stutter.
Five speech pathology graduate student clinicians help the students individually with their speech problems.
Bob said he had hated stuttered for as long as he could remember. "I've always accepted the fact that I stuttered," he said. "At times, however I wish I didn't."
HE SAID THAT SOME classmates in
grade school had made fun of his shuttering but that this had presented no obstacles to overcome it.
"I try to become aware of steps I need to take to control my stutter," he said. "My main problem is that I go too fast and I need to slow down my speech."
He said that the KU program was helping him overcome his speech problem by showing him he was not the only person who stuttered.
"Knowing I wasn't the only one in the world who stuttered helped me to get help," he said.
Bob said that he got his first therapy for stuttering in high school.
The program here is under the super-
director's department. The course is de-
pthopathology and audiology to the KU speech
and hearing clinic. The program also
sponsors classes in in-print reading and hearing
THE 60 UNDERGRADEATE and 64 graduate speech pathology and audiology students also conduct stuttering and lip
reading clinics during the day, according to Lorraine Michel, director of the KU speech and hearing clinic.
Although the weekly classes are important, Lingwall said students monitoring their own speech were the foundation of the program.
"We have them call friends first because it builds their confidence." Linewalk said.
For example, the five students who stutter tape record their speech and count the number of letters they say in the week following classes. They then report their progress to a student clinician at the school.
Another method clinicians suggest to help the students outside class is use of the telephone to call friends and strangers.
HE SAID THE students called businesses on the phone after they developed more confidence to ask for information.
To help the students in the physical aspects of their speech problem, clinicians individually instruct each student during the 1/3 hour class time in a small booth.
Formula funding will need almost nine lives this year in order to survive as the basis for figuring fiscal 1981 budgets for Regents institutions.
Don Smith, Carlin's assistant press secretary, said Friday, "Carlin thinks there is a lot of merit to form funding. It allows us to produce material that responds, it can be used in a pushback."
The concept will soon go before Gov. John Carlin, who will begin hearing bearers in November. Whether Carlin will accept formula funding is questionable.
"But formula funding also has some problems. Last year, the governor didn't recommend adopting it because he said schools would be 'chasing the average.'"
Staff Renorter
Formula funding compares Regents institutions to peer schools, those with similar programs and enrolment figures. Past enrolment figures on enrolment figures of peer universities.
CARLIN DISMISSED the concept last January in his State of the State address as a “bennchmark” to be used only as a starting point to finance budgets.
The fiscal 1981 budget was submitted Sept. 15 to the state budget director, who will pass it to Carlin. The budget then will be sent to the House and Senate Ways and Measures committees, to the House and Senate committees and finally back to the governor.
The Regents based the 181 budget on formula funding. That action was boosted Thursday when the joint Ways and Means
By TONI WOOD
Committee voted to commend the Regens for developing the funding system.
Formula funding faces stiff tests
JORDAN HAINES, Regents chairman,
said, "The committee was supportive of the concept of formula funding, and that will be achieved at the success of higher education in Kansas."
Glee Smith, chairman of the Regents Budget and Finance Committee, said, "Formula funding is a matter of policy for the Board of Regents.
"The legislators were in a position to examine and study the policy, but not to adopt or reject it."
Martin Rein, a member of the legislative research staff for the committee, said, "It was not an issue of adopting or rejecting it. It was a question of the use of the data."
"The Regents submit the budgets with a tremendous amount of data. The committee opted for the proper use of the data when it's deemed appropriate."
CHANCELOR ARCHIE R. Dykes said yesterday that although the committee's counsel for the firm, Michael direction, he thought that formula funding probably would not be used to figure the costs.
"The legislators wanted to see more refinements in the funding formula before approving it," Dykes said.
The Regents budget recommends an increase in faculty base salary of 1 percent, along with a 1 percent increase for promotions and a 2.5 percent increase for
benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans.
At Thursday's Ways and Means Committee meeting, Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, moved that faculty base pay be increased by 9 percent.
notice where their air stoppages were, whether in the voice box, in the back of the mouth, behind the teeth or at the front of the mouth.
Besides helping stutterers with the physical problems associated with stuttering, the program also strives to help its students overcome the mental problems.
THE VOTE ON the motion was 6-4, and Rep. Michael Hayden, R-Awood, the committee chairman, cast the deciding vote against the salary increase.
Dykes said the committee's action should not be a serious disappointment to faculty members.
The concern given faculty salaries by legislators is most encouraging. "Dyke said, 'This is the first time that the subject has been discussed this early in the year.'"
T. P.R. SIRVINASAN, president of the KU School of Engineering, University Professors, and regulators probably wanted to see the official cost-of-flying report for 1975 before deciding on a plan.
Reine Haines said Berman's proposal might have been premature because President Jimmy Carter's cost-of-living guidelines had not yet been announced.
"The fact that half of the committee was willing to vote for a 9 percent raise this early is very encouraging." Srinivasan said.
Carter is expected to release the guidelines in October.
At the Sept. 21 Regents meeting, Dykes proposed that faculty salaries be increased to automatically conform with Carter's guidelines.
For example, some students that stutter might isolate themselves from others because they would fear the embarrassment of being misunderstood and would fear not being accounted for by others.
Teaching methods and topics vary with each clinician.
The Regents voted to wait for the release of the guidelines before making such a decision.
For example, during a recent class session, one clinician asked her student to make up three sentences from pictures she would show him.
A second clinician drilled her student on a list of words and a third clinician asked her student to make more phone calls during the week.
Observers can listen to the instruction in observation rooms next to the booths.
teachers if a stutterer is unable to adjust mentally to his problem," he said. "If we send a student out of this class without a permit, the student would be like throwing an ice cube into hell."
The 12-week program, starting in mid-September, is based on the department's assumption that students can overcome their speech problem, Lingwall said.
HOW A STUDENT in the program reacts mentally to his speech problems is crucial to the program's success. Lingwall said.
"Speech pathologists used to be more concerned with finding a cause for stuttering than with correcting it," he said. "Now, we are more concerned with the opposite, helping stutterers."
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ONE STUDENT had to repeat words his teacher knew were hard for him: "Shave, shave, shave—oak, oak, oak—bat, bat, bat," he said with little problem.
Lingwall said that no cause for stuttering has been found.
The clinicians also told their students to
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