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12 A. SUNDAY. "T i Sp ; j ' - j . i S. ; i l ! - 1 I ' v- TAPE RECORDER Children who are child's progress. Here Dr. Leon Mulling, Undergoing speech therapy at the Southern clinic director, and Joan Perkins, SOC stu- Oregon College Speech and Hearing center dent helper, are shown listening to Randy, use a tape recorder for some speech exer- clinic patient, as he records his voice, ciscs. The tapes are also used to mark a I , 1 I " U 1 :! M :s . I H! i ixi . I , ,T7 9 . ' i . ' mmamm m ww ji ii mil n wf in, i " Jf . v v ; ,r . jl v ; hi; s ; x . ; - rrll ' ... : !--;5.-;x;,: ; ' v -. ' in rrr-n i n hiii-toHii niiiniii mir ii j 1 1 n n i i , im ftt i RING TOSS GAME An important princi ple in speech therapy is thnt correctional methods must be as cnjoynblc as possible. Many games have been devised which keep the child Interested in his speech therapy treatment, but at the same time, accomplish a definite goal. The ring toss game Randy Six Appear In District Court Six persons appeared In dis trict court Friday before -Judge L. L. Sawyer. George Bretz, Grants Pass, was fined $20 for transporting livestock without having a brand inspection certificate. He was charged with un lawfully transporting live stock from Jackson Hot Springs to Eureka, Calif., without an accompanying brand inspection certificate or memorandum brand inspec tion certificate. He pleaded ; guilty.' The case of Larry William Ritchie, 3423 Madrana lane, for drawing a bank check with Insufficient funds in the bank to pay in full, was con Af Your favorite grocer ROGUE DISTRIBUTING CO. 833 South Riverside FEbRUARY 5. 1961 h and Uearmg I . . tinued to Feb. 6. He will en ter a plea then. Ritchie is charged with glv ing Dunham's, Inc. a bad check for $15 on Jan. 5. L. H. McCollum, 106 South Holly St., Medford, pleaded Innocent to charges of assault and battery. A trial is to be set later. McCollum is charged with Beating James . E. Bishop about the head and face with his fists last month. Ho is be ing held in the Jackson coun ty jail in lieu of $300 ball. Mrs. Mac Hazel Fisher, 51, of 404 North Riverside ave., Cabin 6, was given a six months suspended sentence 2 Special Size j PALMOLIVE SOAP when you buv j COLGATE DENTAL CREAM GIANT SIZE ot Ih. regular Pric CJtf I and Susnn are playing Is one of these games. The children toss rings at pegs holding word cards. Each card pictures an object having the word sound giving the child a problem. The child then repeats the name of the ob ject ringed. for disorderly conduct. She was charged with quar reling and fighting with Wil liam Hewell Frost, 44, of Cab in 16, 404 North Riverside ave., Thursday night. She pleaded guilty. Frost was treated at Sacred Heart hospital for stab wounds In his left shoulder and arm and released. ' Judy Wheeler, 429 South Central ave., received n one- year suspended sentence for petty larceny. She was charged with tak ing an Item of clothing from the Oregon Food Store on Feb. 2. She pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge. Judge Sawyer suspended imposition of sentence on Jack Doyle Stinson of Arizona for s'x months for drawing a bank check with insufficient funds in the bank to pay it in full. Stinson was charged with Issuing a bad check for $40 to the Big Y Market on Jan. 18. GASOLINE USERS Dallas - Two-thirds of the gasoline consumed in the U. S. Is used by farmers, manufac turers and merchants in mov ing goods, and by wage earn ers going to and from their jobs. Dr. Leon Mulling Is Head of Clinic Started in 1952 By JOHN STAFFORD Mail Tribune Staff Writer Ashland-Silly Old Sambo sits on a slippery stump and sings silly songs. The silly songs he sings sound like this: Silly, silly, silly me I'm as silly as can be. If you'd like to silly be, Sing this song the same as me: Soo, see, soo, see, soo see, soo. You can be so silly too, See, soo, sec, soo, see, soo, see. Why, you're even sillier than me! This verse probably sounds ridiculous to an adult. It will probably never make the many volumes of the world's great poetry. But it does have a value. It can help your child overcome a speech problem he may have. Every parent hopes his child won't have a speech problem. But reality over comes hope many times and a child does have speech dif ficulties. It may be stuttering. The child may not be able to pronounce s's properly. The child may have a cleft palate. Or he may be suffering from cerebral palsy, which impairs his speech. Fifty years ago children went through life with speech defects. Help was almost un heard of. This is not the case today, and like many speech therapists, Dr. Leon Mulling, director of the Southern Ore gon Speech and Hearing cen ter, Southern Oregon college is proving children can be helped and, in many cases, completely cured of speech defects. Dr. Mulling has been head of the SOC Speech and Hear ing center since its start in 1952. His files show at least 166 children have come to the center since 1952 and have been helped. Currently 45 southern Oregon children are going to the center. Since 1958 Dr. Mulling has diagnosed about 400 cases in public schools where speech defects existed. Much of his time in the last eight years has been spent visiting 34 schools in southern Oregon. School Speech Clinics School speech clinics are held to determine the type and causes of a child's speech defect and to suggest ways tne parents and teacher can help the child. Parents have an opportunity to ask ques tions and secure free guid ance. A public health nurse or special educator arrange suit able clinic dates with each school principal. As head of the center Dr. Mulling's duties cover wide areas. They include giving in dividual and group speech in struction In the campus clinic; counseling parents; advising tcacners on speech correction and improvement programs in tne schools; teaching cam pus and extension courses in speech correction, n rily for teaching teachers hovv to al leviate speech problems; diagnosing speech problems in some public schools and showing parents and teachers now to improve speech of children without calling di rect attention to the child and causing him to be em barrassed or self-conscious. Others include supervising college students in methods of handling speech problems; distributing available free materials to parents and teachers of speech handi capped children; making pub lic appearances relating to causes and treatment of speech problems; teaching courses in speech correction, phonetics and speech science. The clinical help is free. Most of Dr. Mulling's work is with children. However, he does some work with adults, usually during off duty hours. He guarantees no results in any of his work. However, the hearing and speech center has worked wonders in scores of cases. Much of the credit should go to Dr. Mulling. He is a dedicated, energetic and patient worker. His work takes patience. Speech im provement isn't noticed over night. However. Dr. Mulling and his staff don't give up. What t'.icy are doing can be illustrated by following step-by-step a case that comes to the clinic. First, the parents and teacher go to the clinic and are interviewed by Dr. Mul ling. In the interview he hears the parents describe exactly what the child's speech prob lem is and what seems to have caused It. The child's speech nistory is thoroughly investigated. Important factors are how the child learned to talk, and did the parents try to teach the child and was any use made of stories, rhymes, Center ISeimefifts ChiWireini A I ft r'?t$vl f 1 I , ' v ' V V l 1 tit" 4 ! m. ... m , Y r 'n in mn ' it ' MIRROR USED Many methods are used the mouth. Once Susan has learned how to in helping children overcome speech de- pronounce one sound, she will start work- fects. One of these is a mirror. SOC student ing on another Correction of a single sound therapist Betty Danielson is pictured show- may take as long as a year. ing Susan how a word sound games, or picture books? The parents are asked about the development history of the child and when he began to walk and sit up. Speech Training Dr. Mulling believes that in most cases children do not speak well because they have not received the right kind of speech training in the home. "Good talkers are made-not born," he says. He doesn't believe that the speech problem is inherited or due to disease or accident. If possible the child under goes a thorough physical ex amination. Speech organs are examined to determine if they are normal. In. some cases there is a definite phy sical basis for the child's problem. The examining doc tor then signs a statement saying the child is or is not being given proper medical care. Whenever possible, Dr. Mulling has the child take an intelligence test. After all physical and men tal findings have been gath ered, he makes a final diag nosis of the child's problem. Articulation Problem An articulation problem is often dealt with. Dr. Mulling gives the child an articulation inventory to determine what sounds are being misused. Ar ticulation may be poor on many or only a single sound. After the articulation prob lem has been diagnosed, a tape recording is made of the child's speech. This provides a basis for comparison after undergoing clinical training. Only one speech sound re ceives attention at a time. When that sound has been corrected, clinic personnel move on to another. In all the correctional work, one philosophy is ad herred to. "All speech activ ity must be relatively enjoy able and painless," Dr. Mul ling states. Young Children Most of the children going to the SOC campus for help are young. So speech games are used. These include word guessing games, word money collections, a ring toss game where the child throws rings on pegs over different words and songs. Phonograph re cordings also are a valuable aid. Dr. Mulling, volunteer help ers and college students work ing for credit all must main tain enthusiastic attitudes and actions in working with the children. Many children have to be convinced that the simple games are really fun. "Enthusiasm is difficult to generate at times," Dr. Mul ling says, "but the thought that it may stimulate the child to make progress over comes any feelings of frus tration the clinical worker may have." Into Home Many clinical games are carried over into the home. Children are encouraged to make scrapbooks picturing ob jects containing the word sound giving the child prob lems. "All of these games give the child practice in making sounds without making him feel self conscious or unhap py about goinj to the clinic for speech lessons," Dr. Mul ling says. "In very few in stances have any children dis liked their speech lessons or failed to make improve ment." He qualified this by adding, "Improvement is made provided the parents in telligently continue the speech lessons In the home." Responsibility of parents In helping the child is great. The child spends only a limited MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. is made with , ; i- m , f If i . 2ri ,.f " yi ; n v , STROKE PATIENT Mrs. Kay Huffman, former Southern Oregon college vocal music teacher, lost her voice when she suffered a stroke about a year ago. Dr. Leon Mulling, SOC speech therapist, started teaching Mrs. Huffman simple speech exercises after she became ill. Today she has re gained use of her voice and is capable of carrying on a con versation. She is shown above practicing a speech exercise with Dr. Mulling. time In the speech clinic so a major share of speech im provement activity must be carried on by parents. Play Activities Play activities between par ents and the child are ex tremely important. Dr. Mul ling has prepared a check list of items which should be stressed in the home. Also he gives each parents a ques tionnaire. Do's and don't for parents include: 1. Don't make excuses for his speech. Forget about an imaginary "tongue-" tie, his falling down the steps or his grandfather's lisp. 2. Begin in a pleasant home speech program for the child that will be fun for all concerned. 3. See that your child has playmates of his own age. Other children usually pro vide a reason for speaking as well as teaching each other new words. 4. See that the child Is hap py. Try to eliminate any con ditions in the home that may be making the child unhappy. Many speech problems are the direct results of conflicts in the home. Must Be Taught 5. Realize that It is neces sary to teach children to talk; they do not inherit speech. Parents need to be good speech teachers. 6: Talking about the child or his speech in his presence is bad! Avoid it. 7. Parents must avoid try ing to push a child beyond HELP US! We ncd clothing, ihoei, dishes, furniture, .nd bedding. Wt Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly SPring 3-7335 t M 1 .rv his ability to learn. If the child is a slow learner, be much more patient. Give him much more time to learn. 8. Use good clear, simple, slow speech yourself if you want to aid the speech devel opment of your child. r 9. - Be careful not to over correct. Too much correction only makes the child self conscious and negative. 10. Be sure your discipline is fair, objective and consis tent. Your child should be happy as well as obedient. Questions Dr. Mulling en courages parents to ask them selves include: Mechanical Devices Do I listen to him when he wants to talk? Do I see that no one makes fun of his speech? Do I avoid correcting him too much? Do I play speech games with him? Do I give him enough praise when he says something well? Do I give him enough atten tion? In the clinic a few mechan- Paint With yyv The Wonderful Paints . . . S&H GREEN STAMPS, TOO! Medford Paint & Wallpaper Store 6th tV Holly Across From P.O. Phone SP 2-9321 , i ii raj (..nth I ihf So Easy VH To Use! ical devices are used. An au ditory trainer amplifies voices of both child and teacher. Metronomes stimulate the child to repeat the sound over many times. A high fidelity phonograph is used to teach the child songs and rhymes. The child hears himself talk ing with a tape recorder. . After visiting the clinic and practicing at home most chil dren show improvement. It may be a year or more before improvement Is made, according to Dr. Mulling. The length of time it takes for any therapy depends on the severity of the case, at titude and intelligence of the child and cooperation of his parents and teacher. Dr. Mul ling says. The skills and in genuities of the speech thera pist are also important, he adds. "The final test of our ther apy is if the child can be un derstood, if no one calls any attention to his speech and if he doesn't feel self con scious in any way," the clinic director explained. Problems connected with speech therapy work are numerous. In speaking of the profession, Dr. Muiling said there are too many children with speech problems and not enough therapists to help them. In Jackson county there are no regularly employed speech therapists in any public schools other than Medford. In Josephine county there are none at all. The problem is acute in high schools. D r. Mulling said, "there is a need to as sist young people who have speech and allied emotional problems. Too frequently in a departmentalized situation the child is unable to find competent help for his type of problem." "School boards need to realize that providing special education is just as necessary as providing money for com petitive athletic or debate teams," he commented. Dr. Mulling thinks college campuses need to develop more facilities for training speech therapists. "More classroom teachers need to be educated in methods of assist ing children with speech problems," he says. Another problem currently being faced by speech thera pists is discouragment of "old wives tales" which make it harder for the child with a speech defect to overcome his problem. Dr. Mulling says such tales include the belief that children stutter simply because they think too fast; that it's good to correct a child every time he makes a speech error; that it doesn't hurt a child to talk about him in his presence, and that Johnny has inherited poor speaking from his grand father. 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Ashland had four cases compared to five the previous week and Phoenix had none compared to one the previous week. Shady Cove reported six cases compared to a previous five. The number of reported cas es of mumps showed a slight increase: Ashland, eight; Ap plegate, one; and Phoenix, live. Other cases reported were: Ashland, two cases of chicken pox and Eagle Point one; Med ford and Central Point, one case each of rheumatic fever; Medford, one case of erysipe las; and one case of gonorrhea; Applegate, one case of Ger man measles and Medford, three; Prospect, three cases o pinkeye and Medford, one; Ashland and Shady Cove, two cases each of measles; Med ford, one case of syphilis; Med ford, four cases of pneumonia and Ashland one; and Ashland one case of infectious hepati tis. 4-H News Merry Makers The Merry Makers 4-H club met at 1678 Orchard Home dr. on Jan. 27. We learned how to bake potatoes. Marlon Payton was absent. Lee Ann Durham has just returned home from the hospital. We are making pic tures for children in the hos pital. Twenty-Six Stitches The 26 Stitches 4-H sewing group appointed Marsha Sam ple secretary and Lynda Sut tell, reporter, at its recent meeting. Our sewing group is taking turns in being president and vice president. Reatha Sample is acting as president at the next 4-H meeting. Lynda Suttell, Reporter NVESTIGATE and SAVE with One Call In One Location I 1. Paved Parking and Cemetery Streets 2. One Account. Why Accept Less Than the Best.
