The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1967 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGE 4—CAMPUS CHAT
Friday, February 24, 1967
ech Defects: A Common Problem
Mr*. Jo Ann Huddleston aids two children in tongue therapy at the Speech
and Hearing Clinic. A two-way mirror permits observation of the children.
By BOBBY RAY SANDERS
"If a person pays more attention to
the way you apeak then to what you are
actually aayintf, then you just mijfht
have a speech problem," Dr. Willard S.
Jacquot believes.
And Dr. Jacquot speaks from experi-
ence he is director of the Speech and
Hearing Clinic ut North Texas.
Some people may not realize that they
have a speech problem, he says. If an
individual is self-conscious about the way
he talks or tries to avoid speaking,
chances are he has a problem.
STUDENTS WHO HAVE speech or
hearing problems need help, and the
Speech and Hearing Clinic offers it. The
clinic is open to all university students
and to the public, free.
"We treat all kinds of speech prob-
lems," Dr. Jaci|uot said.
He said the majority of the problems
result from faulty learning. Some prob-
lems, however, are caused by a physical
defect. Cleft palate, cerebral palsy and
widely-spaced teeth, which are physical
speech problems, would require treat-
ment by a physician.
"The majority of the speech problems
we see, however, are not physical," Dr.
Jacquot said.
STUTTERING IS another problem
quite common for workers in the clinic.
"About one per cent of the population
stutters at one point or another in life,"
Dr. Jacquot said.
Asked if the clinic could cure stutter-
ing, Dr Jacquot said:
"The American Speech and Hearing
Association believes you can't use the
word 'cure.' However, people who once
stuttered no longer stutter as a result of
work in the Speech and Hearing Clinic.
"We are optimistic that when a person
comes in, we expect we can help him
considerably," Dr. Jacquot said.
...Yet Some Can Overcome It
B> BRENDA EDMON
Paul Tabor sometimes burps when he
talks. It doesn't embarrass him for if
he didn't burp occasionally he couldn't
talk.
Tabor was one of two speakers who
told Sigma Alpha Eta, the speech ther-
apy club, a Unit "Esophageal Speech" last
week The other speaker was Miss I'at
Orr. therapist from the Collier
Hearing and Speech Center, Dallas.
Esophageal speech is u method of talk-
ing by per nris without larynges—the
muscles around the larynx or other
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throat muscles. There is complete loss
of vocal cord vibration.
Breathing from the mouth produces
noise but it needs to be controlled. Burp-
ing is a good substitute for a vibratory
force.
"MOST PEOPLE ARK too self-con-
scious about their surgery," Miss Un-
told the club. "Whenever we can get
them to take treatments, their first one
is just to get them calm."
After the patients are relaxed, getting
air down is the next step. This is done
by three methods. The first is the inhala-
tion technique. The patient inhales as he
would in normal breathing while air is
plunged into the esophagus.
Another is by injection. This involves
swallowing in a way to get air in the
back of the throat and burping it back
up in "ah" arid vowel sounds. This slow
process of learning develops into one-
syllable words Buch as eat, ice, ate, it
and oat and then two-syllable words un-
til the patient can grasp many words of
many syllables on his own.
THE LAST TECHNIQUE is the closed
injection, a plunger-like activity with the
tongue causing air to go down to the
esophagus.
"The one used depends on the individ-
ual," Mi«t* Orr tut id. "The inhalation tech-
nique causes the person to speak faster,
but some aren't able to grasp it."
This technique was used by Tabor, a
former patient at the Collier Hearing
and Speech Center.
Fifteen years ago Tabor had his larynx
removed because he had cancer. "When
I learned from my doctor that 90 per
cent of all cancer cases were caused by
smoking," Tabor said, "this made me
stop."
Tabor, who now talks as well as a
normal person with slight hoarseness,
told how he re-learned talking. Two
weeks after surgery he became discour-
aged. He said he thought about suicide,
but decided that getting drunk might be
better.
TABOR DRANK A LITTLE but a
friend he was visiting encouraged him
to go home. His wife met him ut the door
and immediately he began talking to
her. "She cried, thinking that I would
never talk again unless I had l>een drink-
ing, but I fooled her," Tabor said.
Because of a nasal obstruction, Tabor
makes a noise each time he inhales.
After talking for a long while, air is
collected in the stomach and must come
out in a burp every once in a while.
"He has good volume," said Miss Orr
''and most laryngectomies hardly have
any volume at all."
A PERMANENT HOLE in the center
of Tabor's throat has no effect on his
speech. He has to keep it covered at all
times or it will get dry. He finds it dif-
ficult to breath in dry air because ait-
goes directly to the lungs, causing fre-
quent coughing.
Because he was an extrovert, only two
lessons were necessary before he began
holding good conversations. "I was so
determined t talk that I made my first
appointment with the doctor for com-
plete therapy," Tabor said.
After taking treatments, Tabor t'.ild
how he joined the Lost Cord Club of
Dallas. The purpose is for one laryn-
gectomy to aid another in games and
conversation.
Tabor was faced with a job demotion
after his laryngectomy, but could have
lost his life with the killer — cancer. He
said finding out that former President
(irant had the same operation after
holding office made him feel a little
better.
EARLIER THIS MONTH some of the
speech students attended the 16th annu-
al mid-winter conference on stuttering
at Texas Woman's University.
They learned there that Marilyn Mon-
roe, Garry Moore, Jack Paar, Raymond
Massey and even Moses were stutterers.
Dr. Joseph Sheehan, professor of psy-
chology at the University of California
and himself an ex-stutterer, provided
that information.
Dr. Jacquot said that another problem,
perhaps the biggest problem, is articula-
tion. He mentioned specifically lisp-
substituting the "th" sound for the "s'
sound,
He also said that dialect and voice
problems are common.
"Some people's voices are too low;
others are too high," he said. "Some
voices are too weak." Dr. Jacquot said
the clinic helps people rid themselves of
their speech problems because such prob-
lems can be a hindrance in their work.
THE CLINIC also acts as a training
center for students who plan to be spee-h
therapists. The clinic is operated by
these students under supervision of fac-
ulty members. About 126 North Texas
undergraduates and graduates are train-
ing to be speech therapists, Dr. Jacquot
said.
Speech therapists are in demand and
salaries are good, Dr. Jacquot said. "In
fact, there are more positions than there
are people to fill them," he said.
The Speech and Hearing Clinic treats
about 100 persons a week. It has six
individual therapy rooms and one hear-
ing facility. However, the new Speech
and Drama Building now under con-
struction will have three hearing facil-
ities
The clinic, operated by the speech and
drama department, also does therapy
work at the Lab School and the Denton
State School.
THE SPEECH and Hearing director
said that in an elementary population,
5 per cent of the children have speech
defects. On the university level, ?. per
cent have speech problems.
North Texas students may call and
make an appointment for tests at the
Speech and Hearing Clinic.
'This is a good opportunity for stu-
dents," Dr. Jacquot said. "If they get
help early enough, they can rid them-
selves of their particular speech prob-
lem," he added.
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Smead, Jim. The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1967, newspaper, February 24, 1967; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth307333/m1/4/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.