Speech Comes To A Five Year Old Boy

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[male] five years old, apparently normal physically and mentally did not speak except for the word "mama", using grunts and gestures for communicating ideas. Mother was extremely nervous during child''s early life. Parents and grandparents discussed the boy''s inability to talk in his presence. Child''s needs were anticipated by associates. Bribes, ridicule, praise and punishment had been used by the mother on the child. For several weeks no attempt was made to secure speech responses, play only was given. A "Charley McCarthy" doll was used while confidence was developed. Blowing exercises were brought in. Mother was instructed not to pay attention to his grunts and speech. Constant reward was used as phonetic drill was begun and successful efforts in speech were attempted. After eight months he took a Stanford-Binet intelligence test and made a score of 106, and, at the last session, eight months after the first trip to speech office he was talking spontaneously.

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