Date of Award
Spring 1941
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication
Abstract
The objective of this thesis is to trace the causes and the suggested cures for stuttering from the beginning of records to the present time. An analysis of the existing trends will be made in an attempt to clarify what has been done to effect a cure for stammering. The first chapter traces speech correction work as a movement from the Egyptian civilization to the beginning of the twentieth century and gives the historical background. The second and third chapters examine the theories of the causes and curative measures applied since 1900. The concluding chapter covers some of the most noteworthy statistics concerning the work done in the United States and Europe. The author, in compiling this history, has done so in the hope that a presentation of the existing theories and trends would lead to the development of one theory that would embody all the good and valid points of the others and omit their weaknesses.
Recommended Citation
Burkardt, Edith Jean, "History and Present Status of the Correction of Stuttering" (1941). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 1589.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/1589