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If a baby falls and breaks his leg, parent would not rush him to a doctor to have it set? But somehow “broken” speech is viewed as the child’s fault and so it is something to be ignored or to be ashamed of rather than something to be repaired It is true that often the home circumstances have contributed to the faulty speech pattern, but that is all the more reason to give real attention to both the child and the relationships within the household Frequently, speech therapists can quickly help a small child to solve a speech or language problem, whereas if allowed to live on that way, the difficulty may be so ingrained that it is virtually impossible to correct The other extreme is one of frantic dismay expressed in such a way that the child senses that he is the object of much anxiety. When it came it was colorful, yes, very colorful At first we thought it was modern art—a lot of colorful spots swiftly whisked by on the screen “That was our convention a couple of weeks ago,” Heinz Miller explained Without his explanation, we would never have known.