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800 BCE
800s - Ancient Rome
People with stutters were locked in cages and put on display for public amusement -
1800s - Speech language pathology begins
In Europe some professionals like doctors & educators work to help people with stutters (dysfluency) and articulation (speech sound errors) to mainly help with public speaking. American doctors travel to Europe to learn from them. Results were mixed and not available in schools.
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S0270-4013%282011%290000021009 -
1925 - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is formed
Small group of highly educated people focused on the scientific study of speech correction
https://leader.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2292435 -
1945-1965 - Processing Period
Assessment & therapy approaches are improved/created to help the psychological reasons behind communication disorders
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/1975-2000.html -
1965 - 1975 Linguistic Era
Language disorders start to be treated separately from speech disorders.
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/1975-2000.html -
1975 - 2000 - Pragmatics Revolution
Practices now include communicative, linguistic, cultural & everyday-life contexts
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/1975-2000.html
