Signs, Signals and Symbols: A Presentation of a British Approach to Speech Pathology and Therapy [Hardcover]

Originally published in 1963, this title was an attempt to provide a new basis for the discipline of Speech Therapy. This was the first work to be published in England relating speech pathology to the wider study of human communication. It also contains results of original research into the problems of Dyslalia and Stammering. Several chapters are devoted to accounts of diagnostic measures and aids.

Introduction.  1. Language, Life and Literature Rev. J.L. Wilson  2. The Place of Speech Therapy Among the Sciences L. Stein  3. Signs and Signals W. Haas  4. Linguistics and Speech Pathology J.L.M. Trim  5. Historical Linguistics Alan S.C. Ross  6. The Quantum of Language G. Patrick Meredith  7. Coding and Decoding in Speech D.B. Fry  8. Aids to Diagnosis and Therapy John R. Brook  9. Evaluating the Nature and Degree of Defects and Disorders of Voice, Speech and Language Joan H. van Thal  10. Sign-Posts in Diagnosis C.H. Aldridge  11. The Suppression of the Signal Peggy Carter  12. Breakdown in Communication in a Nine-Year-Old Boy M.J.L. Ellis  13. Childrens Drawings  Their Value in Therapy Joan Pollitt  14. Informative and Manipulative Signs and Signals in Language Disorder Stella E. Mason  15. The Data Underlying the Concept of Dyslalia R.E. Simms  16. Analysis of the Linguistic Data of Dyslalia L.M. Hartley  17. Towards a New Concept of Dyslalia P.A.E. Grady  18. Clues in Aphasia Joyce L. Wilkins  19. The Assessment of Defls»