Written for speech therapists and doctors, this book gives a precise, practical summary of anthroposophical Therapeutic Speech. Speech formation, or creative speech, is based on the ancient art of recitation and drama, and was revived and fundamentally redeveloped by Rudolf and Marie Steiner in the early 1920s. The therapeutic work is based on speech exercises and indications on how to use them, which were given by Rudolf Steiner. Includes many tables and diagrams. Barbara Denjean-von Stryk studied anthroposophical speech formation in England and Stuttgart, Germany and under Christa Slezak-Schindler. She teaches speech formation in Germany and Switzerland, and has a practice for therapeutic speech. She is a mother of three children. Dietrich von Bonin works at an art therapy centre in Bern, Switzerland. He teaches therapeutic speech at the Dora Gutbrod School in Switzerland and at the Speech School in East Grinstead, Sussex.
IntroductionPart One: Foundations of Therapeutic Speech1. Historical Development2. The Significance of Air3. Speech as Formed Exhalation4. Artistic Means4.1 The Consonants4.2 The Vowels4.3 Sound -- Syllable -- Word -- Sentence -- Gesture5. Relationship Between the Artistic Means and the Human Being5.1 The Human Being and the Consonants5.2 The Human Being and his Voice5.3 The Breathing Human Being 6. 'Knowledge of the Human Being' with Regard to Speech 6.1 The Threefold Human Being6.2 The Bodily Members and their Involvement in the Speech Process6.3 Five Effects of Speech Development6.4 Speech and its Relation to Other Arts6.5 Therapeutic Speech and Eurythmy TherapyPart Two: The Practice of Therapeutic Speech 7. General Diagnosis in Therapeutic Speech7.1 Diagnosis According to Stance, Breath, Voice, Articulation and Thinking8. Aspects of Therapy8.1 Cause and Cure of Illness8.2 Speech Formation as a Path of Practice 8.3 The Specific Therapeutic Approach8.4 Additional Therapeutic Speech Elements9. Neurasthenia and Hysteria: A Medical-Artistic Comparison9.1 The Medical Perspective9.2 The Artistic Perpective9.3 Recitation and Declamation9.4 The Therapeutic Ideal9.5 Characteristics of Both Types of Constitution in Speech Diagnosis 10. Observations of Some Illnesses with Case Examples10.1 Asthma and Depression -- A Comparative Breathing Study10.2 Eating Disorders -- The Soul's Refusal to Breathe its way down into the Body10.3 Iron Deficiency Anaemia and Speech Processes10.4 Tinnitus -- The Hearing Activity Turned Inside Out 11. Further Case Examples12. Typical Speech Disorders, their Assignment to the Articulation Regions and Therapy12.1 Labial (Lip) Region12.2 Dental (Tongue/Teeth) Region12.3 Velar (Palate) Region12.4 Voice and Breath13. Processes of Development13.1 Process Description of a Course of Therapy in Seven Steps of Development13.2 The Schooling Path of the Therapeutic Speech Practitioner
