Date of Award
5-1938
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Education
Abstract
This thesis represents an attempt to determine if hearing acuity is an etiological factor in stammering. This paper presents a review of the areas of the literature involved in the problem and offers certain laboratory evidences which the writer has collected to date.
Since hearing involves the aural mechanism, and since stammering involves speech, the first task necessary was to review the pertinent literature in these two fields in order to bring together the clinical findings of the etologists and those engaged in speech correction, the work of the physiologist and anatomists who have compared histological lesions and the hearing acuity in man, the work of those who have studied the effect of experimentally produced lesions in animals, and the work of the acoustical engineers. By means of which it was hoped that what knowledge about the interpretation of hearing acuity and stammering existed could be disclosed.
In the organization of this paper the areas of investigation have been kept separately. These areas are the anatomy of the ear, the physiology of the ear, the theories of hearing, the physical properties of sound, the limits of audition, the physical characteristics of the English speech sounds, hearing impairment, defective speech, and the writer's experimental evidence.
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Recommended Citation
Harms, M. Arline, "The Relation of Hearing Acuity to Stammering" (1938). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 5685.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/5685