SPEECH THERAPY
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The reference of " Janus " to the work of the Speech Therapists recalls that The Spectator published a Supplement, on March 80th, 1929, in which thcrz was ore of the earliest-accounts of the work of a Speech Therapy Depart-
ment. At that time it was known under the not n of the Orthophonie- Department, but this did not convey the
real work of the Department so well as the present title. The account given by Mr. R. L. Carton in that Supplement in a survey of the activities of King's College Hospital has been. regarded as one of the best descriptions published of the important work undertaken by Speech Therapists, who arc: now incorporated in the Society of which Miss MacLeod, the Honorary Speech Therapist of King's College Hospital, is Chairman.
Although considerable progress has been made in the work of the Department, the conditions in which it is carried on _ are painfully cramped, and a benefactor who would give £2,000 for development would enable a great deal more to be done in the alleviation of an impediment which hampers men and women throughout life. The results show that if speech disorders are dealt with in childhood a large proportion of them can be entirely removed so that speech is quite normal.—
House Governor.
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, S.E.5.
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