JOURNAL OF THE  SOUTH  AFRICAN LOGOPEDIC SOCIETY June 

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During the past few  years, members of  the medical and dental professions, 
teachers, psychologists, etc., and also the public in general, have come to recognise 
and accept Logopedics as an important and necessary element of  the modern society 
in which we live. 

However,  the scope of  Logopedics is still very much in the dark. The  general 
impression seems to be that speech therapists deal only with speech defects,  per se. 
Λ pressing need exists to establish the fact  that Logopedicians, although generally 
known as "Speech"  therapists, are interested in and also in a position to treat 
patients with other problems. 

In  this issue of  the Journal,  articles indicative of  the wide scope of 
Logopedics, are presented, for  example, reading difficulties,  and also problems of 
language development in a brain-injured child, both of  which, although not directly 
concerned with "speech"  defects,  nevertheless are within the speech therapist's realm, 
as they have as their basic essence, the factor  of  communication. Finally,  an 
article on recent research work done in the field  of  voice science is a further 
indication that the field  of  Logopedics is wide and varied, and that the interest of 
Speech Therapists  is not limited only to the more obvious speech defects. 

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