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People with stutters were locked in cages and put on display for public amusement
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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 -
Small group of highly educated people focused on the scientific study of speech correction
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Assessment & therapy approaches are improved/created to help the psychological reasons behind communication disorders
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/1975-2000.html -
Language disorders start to be treated separately from speech disorders.
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/1975-2000.html -
Practices now include communicative, linguistic, cultural & everyday-life contexts
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/1975-2000.html