This volume was prepared for the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults by The American Speech and Hearing Association. Its 11 chapters were written by assigned authors and then reviewed and criticized by professional consultants before the final editorial work by the editor. In this way as much agreement as possible was obtained among the speech pathologists involved. The book is described as "an attempt to produce a dependable book of interest to parents, teachers, social workers, physicians and others who are not professional speech correctionists but who are nevertheless concerned, of necessity, with the speech handicapped."