Speech and its Disorders

It is by means of language that we communicate our ideas to each other. Thl, we can do by words either spoken or written. This is the faculty peculiar to human being thus di,fferentiating them from lower animals. Every nation has got its own language and the individuals of that particular nation express their thoughts through its medium, but when they meet individuals of another nation whose language is totally different, then the method of elfpresslng their ideas is through gestures. The so-called gesture language has ' its liml· tations and we cannot express our ideas freely in this manner. This gesture language is the most primitive one and It Is the first step in a child who is learning to speak. Again in certain cases where speech is lost, gesture may remain, and during recovery from total aphaSia, it is the gesture language· that returns first. Next to Iltis gesture language it is the mother tongue which forms very firm Ideas in the human mind. Thus In a graduallly developing aphaSia, patient may forget his foreign tongue but he remembers his mothe·r tongue well