Wednesday, May 1, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Clinical help given free at speech clinic
By Pat Crawford Kansas Staff Reporter
A Greek philosopher once said "Conversation is the image of the mind; as the man, so his speech." A program at KU tries to ensure that everyone knows how to speak adequately and correctly.
The program, sponsored by the division of speech pathology and audiology, provides free clinical help to anyone with a speech or hearing problem. The clinic, located in Henley House at 1236 Oread Ave., handles problems of articulation and voice, stuttering, delayed speech development, cleft palate speech and hearing for KU students and the general public.
James Lingwall, director of the clinic, said the clinic has "three irons in the fire." It provides a training situation for students in speech pathology and subjects for speech and audiology research besides being a free public service.
The clinic is part of an intercampus program at the graduate level. Part of the program is held at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. The whole program provides practical as well as academic training for the student, Lingwell said.
For a student to be certified as a speech clinician, he must have 275 hours of client contact and a masters degree. This is provided in the clinic where all the student work is supervised by certified clinicians. They view the students working with their clients through a two-way mirror. The rooms where students meet their clients are specially wired so that students, wearing a concealed hearing aid, can hear any remarks the supervisor makes about their work. This, Lingwall said, brings immediacy to the training situation.
"We feel that we provide a real service to the students and the community," Lingwall said, "because we provide such excellent supervision."
Freshmen students at KU used to be tested during registration for speech and hearing problems, Lingwall said. This provided a means of finding students with a potential problem. Since this process has been discontinued, the clinic relies on client referrals from the faculty, speech instructors and doctors at Watkins.
The treatment depends entirely on the individual and his problem. "We don't have a cookbook of techniques," Lingwall said. "Every meeting is a tiny experiment that moves us step by step toward a goal."
The clinic started in 1952 and has been expanding its staff, facilities and equipment since, but the purpose, Lingwall said, remains the same. Originally, the clinic was housed in the basement of old Robinson. "Compared to the conditions there," Lingwall said, "we think we have a beautiful set-up now." Next fall, the clinic will move to the Bureau of Child Research wing of the new life science building.
This summer, the clinic is doing some research to see if mothers can be trained to be speech "clinicians" for their children. The theory is that mothers are a more constant part of the child's environment and could be an excellent help if they were trained. The clinic is running a control group of children who will come in regularly for an eight-week period. At the end of the summer, their progress will be compared to the children of the mothers who participate in the training program.
"Correcting a person's speech problem," Lingwall said, "can often change his outlook toward himself and his future."
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Photo by Mike Shurtz
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As part of her licensed speech clinician training, Mickey Edell, Smith Center senior, works with a young patient who has trouble pronouncing certain sounds.
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