The Speech of Mothers of Schizophrenic Children

Goldfarb, William; Goldfarb, Nathan; Scholl, Hannah

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“…Also, a substantial body of psychiatric opinion supports the position that the incompetence of these mothers in communicating thought and feeling is a major pathogenic factor in the development of schizophrenic disorders . Goldfarb, Goldfarb, and Scholl (1966) provided the first empirical study in what one hopes will continue to be a series of fruitful investigations of this hitherto largely speculative issue. As in Goldfarb, Braunstein, and Lorge (1956), Goldfarb et al (1966) employed the services of a speech pathologist as judge/analyst in assessing such factors as volume, rate, pitch, phrasing, intonation, and the communication of mood and meaning.…”

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“…Goldfarb, Goldfarb, and Scholl (1966) provided the first empirical study in what one hopes will continue to be a series of fruitful investigations of this hitherto largely speculative issue. As in Goldfarb, Braunstein, and Lorge (1956), Goldfarb et al (1966) employed the services of a speech pathologist as judge/analyst in assessing such factors as volume, rate, pitch, phrasing, intonation, and the communication of mood and meaning. These aspects of speech and language were rated on a five-point scale: (1) very poor, (2) poor, (3) fair, (4) good, and (5) excellent.…”

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“…According to the authors, identifying information was removed from the tapes and the material was presented to the speech pathologist in random fashion. Goldfarb et al (1966) report the results of their comparison between normal and schizophrenic children and the comparison between mothers of normal and of schizophrenic children with regard to general evaluations of speech quality. According to the conclusions of Goldfarb et al (1966):…”

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The Psychopathology of Language and Cognition

Rieber

Vetter

1995

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Originally published by Plenum press, New York in 1995Softcovcr reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1995 10 987654321 All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher Preface A quarter century ago, one of the authors undertook the task of surveying research and theory in an area that, for lack of a more precise designation, was called "language behavior and psychopathology." The book published under the same title addressed those precincts of language behavior wherein the interests of the psychologist, psychiatrist, linguist, and speech pathologist showed some tendencies toward convergence. The principal focus was on aspects of language and paralanguage-variously, and on the whole, indifferently referred to as "deviation," "anomalies," "aberrations," or "disturbances" -that occur with sufficient frequency in relation to certain categories of personality disorders that they have long occupied a prominent (and coritroversial) place in the psychodiagnostic process.Language Behavior and Psychopathology (1969) made clear to the reader that it did not deal with such primary patterns of language disturbance as aphasia and stuttering. This was not to deny the relevance of psychopathological considerations in such language disorders. The importance of emotional conflict in the pathogenesis of stuttering had been amply documented, and there was abundant clinical evidence that aphasic patients might react adversely to their lowered or altered capacities'in symbolizing and communicating, even to the extent of exhibiting what Kurt Goldstein called a "catastrophic reaction." Regardless, however, of any psychopathological factors that may be present in aphasia or stuttering, both are essentially linguistic disorders. Their principal symptoms are manifested in vocal speech, and their treatment requires some or a great deal of speech therapy and retraining.On the other hand, as the book sought to emphasize, the linguistic and v vi Preface paralinguistic phenomena that occur as concomitants to conventional psychiatric syndromes might be characterized more accurately as language symptoms than as language disturbances. Clinical descriptions of personality disorders prominently feature descriptions of language and paralinguistic behavior. Anyone questioning this statement need only try to imagine the difficulties presented by the psychodiagnostic assessment of a patient bereft of speech. Much, if not most, diagnostic test behavior is language behavior, and among the chief criteria for gauging therapeutic progress is change in language behavior.If there was a common orientation toward language and communication behavior in the psychopathological context, it expressed itself in two objectives. The first was an attempt to arrive at a precise description of the way or ways that individuals diagnosed as belonging to a particular nos...

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Section: Studies Of Maternal Speechmentioning

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Section: Studies Of Maternal Speechmentioning

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Section: Studies Of Maternal Speechmentioning

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Rieber

Vetter

1995

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“…The lack of group differences with regard to parental communication is of particular interest, since parentlchild interaction has been assumed to be deviant and responsible for development of autism (e.g. Goldfarb et al, 1966). A variety of measures reported by Cantwell et al (1977) (social activities directed towards the child, categories 39-64) indicate that autistic and dysphatic children influence in a similar way the communication directed to them.…”

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Autism and receptive dysphasia: Evaluation of comparative studies

Tetzchner

Martinsen

1981

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Ten different studies comparing children with autism and receptive dysphasia are reviewed. Most of the studies aimed to characterize autism as a language disorder. The representativity of the samples are discussed according to heterogeneity of the autistic and dysphatic populations, and sex and social class distributions. Group differences and similarities are listed and discussed according to sample selection and matching procedures, age and sex distribution, social class membership, and the defining criteria of the two illnesses. It is concluded that the studies do not fullfill their aim, and that the project of comparing dysphatic and autistic children seems unfruitful. Group differences which seem unconnected with methodological difficulties, selection procedure, or group defining criteria, were found in parental background, use of gestures, articulation, and reading.

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“…It has been suggested that inadequate parental input has a direct causal association with language delay. Thus, it has been proposed that deviancies in parental speech are responsible for retarded language development (Buium, Rynders & Turnure, 1974;Kogan & Tyler, 1973;Marshall, Hegrenes & Goldstein, 1973;Jones, 1980;Seitz & Stewart, 1973;Wulbert, Ingiis, Kreigsman & Mills, 1975) as well as for the highly abnormal use of language by children suffering from autism or chiltjhood schizophrenia (Goldfarb, 1961;Goldfarb, Levy & Meyers, 1966;Goldfarb, Goldfarb & Scholl, 1972).…”

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Mothers' Speech to Autistic Children: A Preliminary Causal Analysis

Howlin¹,

Rutter²

1989

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Changes over time in the language patterns of autistic children and their parents were examined during the course of a home-based intervention programme. Although the language used by parents to their autistic children was not deficient, language modification procedures were found to lead to rapid changes in the verbal interaction between parents and children. Parents in the non-intervention, control group showed little change in their communication style. In the experimental group, but not in the control group, a close relationship was found between increases in the use of language-eliciting utterances by their mothers and improvements in children's socialized language. The pattern of association between parent and child language suggested that the main effect was of the parent on the child but that the extent of the child's language handicap constrained what could be achieved by treatment.

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The Speech of Mothers of Schizophrenic Children

Cited by 24 publications

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The Psychopathology of Language and Cognition

The Psychopathology of Language and Cognition

Autism and receptive dysphasia: Evaluation of comparative studies

Mothers' Speech to Autistic Children: A Preliminary Causal Analysis

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