Children's Speech Sound Disorders
Chapter One
The evolution of current
practices
Conceptual frameworks are easy to ignore. Like the air we breathe, their presence is
everywhere, once they are looked for. Yet, they are often taken for granted, underestimated
and under-examined. One way to reveal the influence of frameworks today
is to study their use in the unfamiliar contexts. For example, an examination of past
practices of speech therapists raises questions about what practitioners did then as
well as how and why they did it. Such an investigation creates the distance needed
for clinicians to apprehend aspects of their own practice that are ordinarily taken for
granted.
Duchan 2006
One of our profession's few historians, Duchan (2001) believes there has been too little
work on the evolution of current practices. She observes that most histories of the origins
of speech pathology in the US focus on organisational matters and place the genesis of
the profession in about 1925, when work ... read full excerpt from Children's Speech Sound Disorders ebook
