LEARNING TO SPEAK
TREATMENT FOR SOLDTKRS DUMB THROUGH, SHELL-SHOCK; Lieutenant-Colonel 0. S. Myers, F. 8.5., of the K.A.M.C., in this week's "Lancet" gives further details of his methods of dealing with, loss of speech in men suffering from sheU-'shosk. Persuasion is first resorted! to. The patient is asked to copy the doctor as he makes the sounds B, D, and finally V, S, and K. When he has learned to make the necessary movements of the lips, tongue, arid, throat, the man is told to cough, thus proving that ho has power to make a noise. Then ho is told* to add the vowel A to the end of his cough. Successful in this, he is made to cough out the other vowels, and finally to prefix a consonant to the vowels instead of the cough. Delighted at being able to vocalise Ba, Di, So, etc., in manycases the patient is soon ablo to combine monosyllables, till lie can repeat his surname and regimental number. If this first treatmont fails an .is given. In a great many cases, the patient is able to speak on coming to.—From the "Daily Mail."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2929, 15 November 1916, Page 12
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190LEARNING TO SPEAK Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2929, 15 November 1916, Page 12
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