Logopedics
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Logopedics is the medical science that studies the semiotics, diagnosis, pathogenesis, prevention, and therapy of various speech and pronunciation defects in children and adults, such as deaf-mutism, anarthria, aphasia, various forms of dyslalia, stuttering, and symptomatic speech disorders in various nervous and mental diseases.
Encyclopedia article (1928–1936)
LOGOPEDICS (from the Greek words logos - speech and pais - child), a medical science that studies the semiotics, diagnosis, pathogenesis, prevention, and therapy of various kinds of speech and pronunciation defects in children and adults, for example, phenomena of deaf-mutism, anarthria, aphasia, various forms of dyslalia, stuttering, and symptomatic speech disorders in various nervous and mental diseases. In the development of logopedics, researchers from different countries participated: in France - Colombat, Chervin, P. Marie, Moutier, Meig°; in Germany - Kussmaul, Gutzmann; in Austria - Froschels; in Russia - Sikorsky, Netkachev, etc. Logopedics is closely related to pedagogy; in the USSR, logopedics is currently taught in pedagogical higher educational institutions, in Moscow at the defectology department of the pedagogical faculty of 2nd Moscow State University, in Leningrad at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, etc. Abroad, clinics for the outpatient treatment of all kinds of speech defects exist at medical faculties; in Moscow, at the Institute of Neuropsychiatric Prevention of the People's Commissariat of Health, there is a special department for the study and treatment of stuttering.
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“Logopedics.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/logopedics/