The mischief of categorization in speech pathology

Abstract

Categorization is a term which is evolved from the models for the study of psychopathology. There are different models for the study of psychopathology. But the medical model, the behaviour model, the moral model and the statistical model are the important ones. However, out of these, the concept of categorization has more contacts with the medical model than with the other models. Till 1960, the medical model enjoyed a vogue in the behavioural sciences and also in its allied fields which applied the concepts of behavioural
science, like the field of Speech Pathology. During those periods it almost appeared as a fashion to label behavioural variations separately and to catagorize 
them. A bewildering array of over 700 labels were attached to the various types of speech variations. Examination of these terms shows that in this mass of terms, some are descriptive in nature, some have etiological implications or assumptions, some are both descriptive and etiological, and some are idiosyncratic pedantries