Physics and speech therapy

Teaching physics as a service subject

“…has been found to be particularly useful. Duckworth and Lowe (1986) report on a physics-for-speech-therapists course in which a physicist and a speech therapist shared the same class. The course and individual lessons were plan-ned together and each lesson discussed after it was over to determine if it could be improved.…”

“…the speech therapist may often have to rely o n herihis own perception of sound. but a knowledge of certain aspects of sound is essential if the full diagnostic potential of important instrumentation is to be realised (Duckworth and Lowe 1986).…”

“…We recognise that it is far simpler to teach physics to a 'physics paper' than it is to achieve the desirable integration and application of the subject. It has been shown (Duckworth and Lowe 1986) that such a combined approach to assessment is both successful and beneficial to student performance and, more-over, makes for greater long-term job satisfaction for the physicist.…”

“…In order to illustrate the approaches adopted in the teaching of physics as a 'service' subject. we will describe three examples of vastly differing courses, namely BSc (Hons) Speech Therapy (for a fuller account see Duckworth and Lowe 1986). BSc (Hons) Environment Health and BTEC Certificate for Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement (MPPM).…”

Using a new, free spectrograph program to critically investigate acoustics

“…For many years spectrograms have been useful for the study of speech and speech therapy [4]. One of the best early desktop spectrogram programs for the personal computer was developed by Richard S Horne [5].…”