Speech Pathology Quotes

“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary

“Cynthia was originally from Sierra Leone, and I loved the way those two dusky words rolled off her tongue. As we drove along I found myself fascinated with the deep “Oooooohhs” and “Aaaahhhhss” that made up her conversational speech patterns”
― Karl Wiggins, Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab

“However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.”
― Na'ama Yehuda, Communicating Trauma: Clinical Presentations and Interventions in Traumatized Children

“For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.”
― Na’ama Yehuda, Communicating Trauma: Clinical Presentations and Interventions in Traumatized Children

“Without struggle there is no progress.”
― Allison Woyiwada