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    I  many times  is, as oto decide t question, or even give an opinion regarding it. I believe t I  to knoeacen express surprise t  received any regular instruction in speec feo ual imitation and practice! practice! practice!quot; Nature ermined o speak, and all o aid , easiest ate tions in the voice.

    Some furtails appear in an earlier, more detailed account, itution Report of 1891.

    I kne Laura Bridgman uitive desire to produce sounds, and o pronounce a fe delig doubt t ,  tage s repay ime and labour t suc .

    Moreover, tonous and often very disagreeable; and sucelligible except to the speaker.

    taugen painful. too mucress, it seems to me, is often laid upon tance of teaco articulate--a process al to tellectual development. In ture of ticulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; es mental activity, since t t into close contact  and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to tely.  to be also an invaluable aid in acquiring articulation. Sly familiar ruction of sentences, and ies to overcome. Moreover, s a pleasure speeco e knoicipation iculate does not knoime tedious and meaningless.

    Before describing teaco speak, it may be o state briefly to ent so receive regular instruction in articulation. ricken doed in  and  teen monto talk. t ary signs of . But tion of oral language, and, urned, it  so speak intelligibly because sinued to exercise er and tones of s ly natural, but tly attaco tion t ention of communicating  from ty of exercising