Speech therapy went through several stages before its emergence which contributed to the development of this field. Several sources have mentioned that the beginnings of speech therapy were in the hands of a Swiss physician in Amsterdam, Johann Courad Amman (1669-1724). He was concerned with correcting speech and articulation disorders and also had publications in German that were translated into French and invested in the field of deafness.

Abbé Claude François Deschamps, born in Arléon, was a theorist, practitioner, and writer who founded a method adopted in the rehabilitation of stutterers (1745-1791).

Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774-1838), born in Paris, was a physician who spent most of his life treating language disorders. His books include a note on the speech recovery capabilities for the deaf-mute category.

Marc Colombat De L’isére (1797-1851) is considered the first to have coined the term speech therapy. He was born in Vienna, where he studied and worked in commerce with his wealthy father. He went to Grenoble to study law but dropped out because of his political opinions in 1821 and was arrested for two years in prison. He left France, then returned under a pseudonym, became a student of Dr. Pruelle in Montpellier, then continued his medical studies in Lyon, Strasbourg, and Paris. He was interested in the physiology of speech organs, especially studying stuttering, and founded the Institute of Speech Therapy in 1830. He devoted himself to stuttering, voice disorders, and had various publications. In speech therapy, he was interested in phonology and medical anatomy, including:

A table of the natural mechanics of pronouncing all letters in 1830 - stuttering 1830, anatomy of voice diseases in 1834, a note on the physiology and rehabilitation of stuttering in 1836. He died in Paris from a long illness, and his texts and works were adopted to set new limits on the fields of sound study. He also mentioned the importance of rhythm in vocal rehabilitation in his decisions. His son, Emile, completed his father's path by establishing speech therapy, which was confirmed in 1866 when he was approved to teach speech therapy at the National Institute of the Deaf-Mute in Paris.

A new rule was established in the field of speech therapy rehabilitation in 1875, and the Academy of Medicine discussed a thesis by Emil Colombat, who emphasized that stuttering does not require medical treatment but rather speech therapy rehabilitation in 1888.

André Castex (1851-1942) was an otorhinolaryngologist who was the first to open a specialized speech therapy examination in 1903 and one of the first founding scientists of speech therapy from the 1920s.

In 1926, Dr. Veau, a surgeon at the Hospital for Disabled Children, asked Susanne Borel Maisonny (1900-1995) to take care of the children operated on in the palatine division, where the treatment results were good, which led him to send her other cases, and Suzanne Borel Maisonny was the first to establish modern speech therapy. She was a student of Abbe Rosslo, founder of experimental acoustics, holder of a license, specialized in acoustics, and worked as head of the speech therapy department at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital.

Several language tests and a number of pedagogical methods were designed in the field of reading, writing, and arithmetic learning, as well as an audio and indicative method. In 1959, she founded the National Union of Speech Therapy (SNO), which became the National Federation


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