Frederic Darley had a distinguished career in several areas of communicative disorders. After receiving his Ph.D. in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Iowa, he was honored by the departmental faculty by being given a faculty position and the opportunity to participate in its ongoing research programs. Later in his career he opted to head the speech pathology services of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where he contributed his theoretical and clinical background to the treatment of patients with speech and language disorders. His contributions to the field of human communication and its disorders were twofold. First, Darley implemented the study and design of speech and language norms for the purpose of providing quantitative measure of the developmental delay of children with speech and language disorders. In this regard, Darley provided the impetus for the use of rigorous assessment procedures in the diagnosis and treatment of speech and language...
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Darley, F. L. (1982). Aphasia. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.
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Winitz, H. (2012). Darley, Frederic L.. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_40
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