A survey of the articulation of the children of the Madison School, Stockton, California

• Main Author: McDearmon, James Robertson
• Format: Others
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1951
• Subjects: Madison School (Waterloo; Calif); Speech disorders; Communication Sciences and Disorders; Speech and Hearing Science; Speech Pathology and Audiology
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1165; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2164&context=uop_etds

It was the purpose of this study (1) to throw light upon specific speech needs of pupils in one of the elementary schools in Stockton; (2) to throw light on the status of speech in a school population among which the factors of low I.Q. retarded academic progress, exceptionally limited economic background, and racial and national differences, and relatively small; (3) by extension, to indicate something more generally regarding the speech needs of such children of whom the pupils surveyed tended to be a representative group; (4) to find indication of the influence of the factor of chronological age upon articulatory accuracy; (5) to throw light upon the question of the extent to which maturation, rather than training, can be relied upon for the elimination of speech errors in children; (6) to find indication of the influence of the factor of sex upon articulatory accuracy; (7) to discover, among students manifesting inaccuracies, to what extent the inaccuracies tended to be manifested in a relatively large number of sounds, and to what extent they tended to be limited to relatively few sounds; (8) to find indications as to which sounds are most difficult, i.e., most frequently inaccurate, and which sounds are least difficult, i.e., least frequently inaccurate, among primary school children; and (9) to find indications as to the relative frequency of errors in the initial, medial, and final positions of words, respectively.