In some quarters, giving a character a speech defect is regarded as a relic from the insensitive, incorrect and otherwise bad old days . But in this play, Charles Dean's stuttering reverend can only be welcomed as much-needed drollery.
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But they demonstrate that a person's ability to understand and say words begins in the first few months of life, and experts say they provide even stronger evidence that efforts to correct speech defects should begin as soon as possible.
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In fact the word actually defining his speech defect was " Battalos ", signifying someone with rhotacism, but it was crudely misrepresented as " Batalos " by the enemies of Demosthenes and by Plutarch's time the original word had already lost currency.
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There are kids everywhere who are suffering torment because of speech defects and similar types of problems, the original hook could only have served as an inspiration to any such child or any young person who feels that he is different or not accepted for his differences.
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Gifford was president of the Speech Arts Association of California in 1922, and was a founding member of the American Speech and Hearing Association ( ASHA ) in 1926 . and From 1926 she was director of the Bureau of Correction of Speech Defects in the California Department of Education.
