Scientific approaches to overcoming stuttering (edited by Rudolph Krayevsky)

Abstract

The given article analyses the views of the known Ukrainian defectologist of Soviet period Rudolf Krayevsky (1897-1980) on the theory and practice of correction of stuttering. The scientist's work was associated with researches in the field of speech disorders and Surdo-pedagogy. Today, the modern Ukrainian speech therapy theory feels the need to reconsider and structure its own historical heritage. Learning and bringing back its achievements enables us to determine the prospects for further development of the theory and practice of correction of stuttering in Ukraine. The article also reveals reasons which are often, according to R. Krayevsky, lead to stuttering, substantiated the importance of involving parents, teachers and educators in the prevention and timely correctional work in dealing with stuttering. Thanks to views of R. Krayevsky, today we are able to broaden and deepen the theoretical and practical aspects of the problem of Ukrainian speech therapy of stuttering correction in the Soviet period. His scientific provisions on stuttering and other speech disorders was based on thorough revision of researches in various fields of science, had been systematized and described in his manual "Speech disorders and their elimination".