| Author |
Book and Date of Publication |
Contents |
| J. Aitken Meigs |
Clinical report on Robert Bates’ Cure for Stammering (1852) |
This physician, interested in speech disorders, reports positively on results of inventions of appliances by Robert Bates as a treatment of stuttering. The appliances included a spoon-shaped mouth instrument for bilabial stuttering, a tube and rubber band placed on the teeth for dental stuttering, and a laryngeal compressor (a screw and buckle placed over the larynx) for laryngeal spasms. |
| Alexander Melville Bell |
The Faults of Speech (1880); Observations on Defects of Speech (1883)
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An elocutionist from Scotland, A.M. Bell analyzed speech sounds and offered practical guidance and exercises for conducting speech therapy (use of visible speech charts indicating location of articulators for different sounds). He published several books in America. His son, Alexander Graham Bell, used visible speech methods in his elocutionist practice in Boston, MA, with an emphasis on work of oral speech of the deaf. |
| Samuel O. Potter |
Speech and its Defects (1882) |
Potter, a physician and someone who stuttered, published his medical thesis. It contained an appeal to physicians to be more involved in the treatment of speech disorders. Includes description of articulatory anatomy and taxonomy of speech defects. The primary emphasis was on treatments of stuttering (he called it dyslalia). |
| George Andrew Lewis |
Home Cure for Stammerers (1907) |
Lewis ran a popular school for stuttering therapy in Detroit, MI. His cure involved swinging one arm in a figure eight and enunciating syllables at the same time. |
| Edward Wheeler Scripture |
Stuttering and Lisping (1912) |
Scripture was a speech scientist trained by Wundt in Germany and a proponent of psychoanalytic approaches to treating speech disorders. In this book, he combines psychoanalytic methods with recommended physical exercises (breathing, tongue gymnastics) for changing speech patterning. |
Charles Sidney Bluemel
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Mental Aspects of Stuttering (1913); Stammering and Cognate Defects of Speech (1913)
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Bluemel was a psychiatrist who stuttered. He saw stuttering as being related to defective auditory or visual imagery and designed treatment to enhance visual imagery to minimize chaotic speech impulses. |
| Margaret and Smiley Blanton |
Speech Training for Children: The Hygiene of Speech (1919) |
Margaret Blanton was a speech correctionist, and Smiley Blanton was a psychiatrist and director of the Speech Clinic at the University of Wisconsin. They geared this book to parents and teachers of children in elementary school. The book emphasizes the emotional side of speech. It provides information about development in general and gives hints about child rearing. The final section contains speech classroom exercises. |
| Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue |
Stammering: Its Cause and Cure (1919) |
Bogue himself stuttered. He established a well-known stuttering clinic in Indianapolis. This book describes his own difficulties and those of his patients as well as offering a treatment cure. |
| Sara Stinchfield Hawk |
A Preliminary Study in Corrective Speech (1920)
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This is a published master’s thesis containing a classification of "defective speech conditions and causes of speech disorders" in elementary school children. The monograph also contains materials for articulation testing and sample drill charts. |