学童の声音言語障碍に就いて

　現今我が初等教育の分野に「言葉の教室」とか「正しい言葉の使ひ方」等ことばに対する関心が昂められ，言語教育が重視されるに至つたが，此等は全て発音を定つた型に整へられた以後の問題であり，正しい発音以前の問題でないのは周知の事と思ふ。而して本邦学童の言葉或ひは音声の健康状態に関する観察は豊田文一氏，林義雄氏の調査の僅かに止まつている次第である。

　私は昭和27年3月仙台市立立町小学校に於て，その音声言語の状態を比較的多数に就て観察する機会を得た。茲に此の成績の概要を発表し，今後の言語教育の一資料に供したいと思ふ。

YOSHIDA attempts a study of speech enun-ciation among children with 1,422 of them who are in the primary grades ranging from the first to sixth. Among this number there were only two children who were found affected with nasal voice because of nasal blockage but, there were 12 (0.8 percent) affected with hoarseness. And the occurrence of which was predominently am-ong boys, 6.5: 1, as compared to girls; the grea-test number among those who belonged to the third and fourth grades. Stuttering was found in 0.4 percent of the total number, in proportion of 3: 1, as amomg boys as of girls. Speech dif-ficulty occurred only among the boys who num-bered 0.5 percent of the total; the difficulty bei-ng in enunciation of 'sa' column of 'katakana' table, the number of these aggregating to 71 per-cent of those who were thus, handicapped. There were six children affected with medium degree hearing loss and 5 of these found difficulty in prope rarticulation of 'sa' column.