Speech Examination Of A Group Of Institutionalized Mentally Handicapped Children

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Abstract
74 mentally retarded children enrolled in St. Coletta''s School for Exceptional Children studied for articulatory proficiency showed 30% hearing losses, marked deficiency in auditory memory span for vowels and sound discrimination. Syllable and tapping rates were slow. In general their speech was immature. Scores on formal testing with picture stimuli differed from conversation scores. Interrelationships between the 5 measures presumed to affect articulatory proficiency indicated that these measures were not related to a highly significant degree with the exception of the max. repetitive rates for syllable production and tapping.