A Clinical Analysis of the Articulatory Defects of the Feeble-minded

Abstract

53 mentally deficient subjects without primary physical disorders were examined for speech by means of 65 stimulus cards containing pictures of common objects. The mental age was 4.9 times as significant as chronological age in its influence on speech proficiency. The speech of primary aments tends to correspond very closely to that of normal children with comparable mental age, but omissions were one of the most significant characteristics found in the feeble-minded. The speech of the feeble-minded displays the same tendency toward retardation which is noted in the other functions of the feeble-minded.