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Articulation—Organic Factors

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Communication Disorders

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Historically, the most common explanations by laymen and physicians for articulation disorders have involved organic factors. In the past fifty to one hundred years, a change in professional opinion has led authorities to assert that articulation disorders are psychologically based, learned phenomena (Milisen, 1954; Winitz, 1977). While it is currently acknowledged that articulation defects may have both organic and functional origins, few experimental studies involve appropriate controls for both factors. It is rare, for example, to find the tactile sensitivity of the tongue controlled in an articulation-learning study, or stimulatability controlled in a study of the articulation of the apraxic. Hence, a philosophical bias or experimental artifact based upon the investigator’s theoretical position has led to a curiously dichotomized clinical approach to articulation problems.

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Nichols, A.C. (1981). Articulation—Organic Factors. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Communication Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9760-2_1

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