Abstract
Speech pathology deals with the understanding, assessment, and treatment of
speech and language disorders. This necessitates a good understanding of the case
who is to be treated, the problem the case has and in addition, the language to be
taught. The situation in India, with its multiplicity of linguistic groups, presents
itself additional problems in that the speech clinician may have to work with
languages non-native to him. Even if the therapist is a native speaker of the
language with which he has to work, it is important for the speech clinician to have
a clear understanding of his own speech Recently there has been great emphasis on
distinctive feature analysis of speech. Attempts are now being made to programme
articulation therapy based on distinctive features
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