Possible Schools Pop Quiz (Articles)

Why does knowing history matter?

It asks why practices were accepted at the time, how socio-cultural contexts influenced clinical decisions, and why we shifted towards evidence based practice.

It allows us to reflect on current standards of care, question assumptions about “what works”, and better understand the profession’s identity.

What were the first SLPs like?

They were not certified and the profession didn’t formally exist yet. Mostly came from education and medicine.

What does it mean that some early SLPs were viewed as “quacks”?

People who falsely claimed they had a secret technique or cure for particular speech disorders.

Expertise developed through…

established professions, apprenticeships/European influence, and personal experiences with stuttering.

Elijah Corlet

Boston schoolmaster

Treated Cotton Mather’s stuttering

Technique: elongated, “drawling” speech

Alexander Melville Bell & Alexander Graham Bell

elocutionist

Developed Visible Speech

Visual symbols showing articulator placement

used in treatment of speech disorders and deaf education

The Voice

edited by Werner

the first US journal focused on speech disorders

focused heavily on stuttering

included treatment methods and research

Public school speech correctionists

affiliated with National Education Association (NEA)

Led by W.Swift