The development of the history of speech therapy diagnostics up to the 1990s with the addition of a new segment

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The aim of our study is to present the history of Hungarian speech therapy diagnostics up to the 1990s, with special regard to the development of speech testing methods. We present a speech therapy study obtained from contemporary documents and hitherto almost unknown, which was introduced in 1934 and which sheds a fundamentally different light on the image known so far about the era. The procedure is described from the sources published by Antal Murányi and Adolf Sulyomi-Schulmann and we compared with the diagnostic tools known so far, especially with the test procedures developed by József Roboz, Artúr Sarbó, and Ildikó Meixner and Gábor Palotás. The significance of Murányi and Sulyomi-Schulmann’s method (1934) lies in the complexity of its method of investigation and in its holistic approach, which has hitherto been considered the merit of later ages. To the best of our knowledge, its pedagogical research unit prescribes special education procedures that are still current as far as we know today. This tool is a milestone in speech therapy: its principles are still valid today and are even used in current diagnostic practice.

Keywords: history of speech therapy, speech therapy diagnostics, speech examination, examination procedure