KAREN SAXBY left presi dent of the Central United Church Women Friendship unit chats with guest speaker Marlene Thelen speech therapy teacher and Nancy Campbell in charge of the evening program Members met Monday night at the home of Ruth Dick for the monthly meeting Talking to children learning aid speech therapist tells UCW unit Practice makes perfect and that saying can be applied to children learning to talk ac cording to speech therapy teacher Marlene Thelen who this week addressed members of the Central United Church Women Friendship Unit Talk to your child all the time He needs lot of input before hell have proper out put Mrs Thelen told about 20 members who met at the home of Ruth Dick 26 Tower Cres Mrs Thelen was introduced by Eva Jean MacDonald Mrs Thelen visits eight schools in the area on regular basis to give remedial speech therapy These schools include Warnica Public Synnybrae Killamey Beach Goodfellow Innisfil Central King Edward Prince of Wales and Hillcrest She has her bachelor of arts and her specialist certificate in special education Speech development is an in tegrated part of total mental and physical development Mrs Thelen said Bone muscle and speech development co ordinate The basics steps toward speech include the birth cry breathing sucking swallowing and chewing and meaningful cries Later babbling and vocal play shows that the child is try ing to communicate This is REV LOIS WILSON Pauline McGibbon assists at church LtGov Pauline McGihbon will assist in worship service honoring the work of Christian women in the community Sun day at 1030 am at Central United Church Special guest speaker for the service is Rev Lois Wilson of First United Church Hamilton LtGov McGibbon received her bachelor of Arts in modern history from the University of TorOnto 1933 honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Alberta 1967 University of Western Ontario 1974 Queens University 1974 University of Toronto 1975 She is member of the Senate of the University of Toronto and immediate past chairman of the board of gover nors of Womens College Hos pital Toronto She was officer of the Order of Canada in 1967 Her accomplishments in cluded being first woman to be chancellor of the University of Toronto first woman to be president of the University of Toronto Alumni Association first woman to be chairman of the board of governors of the National Theatre School of Canada and National Presi dent of Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire 1963 1965 The Lieutenant Governor is participating member of the United Church of Canada and is married to Donald McGib bou vicepresident and trea surer of Imperial Oil Ltd Mrs Wilson was born and educated in Winnipeg and is married to Rev Dr Roy Wilson also of First United Church Hamilton Mrs Wilson was minister of Organized Ox ford United Church Winnipeg from its inception in 1953 associate minister First United Church Thunder Bay director of Town Talk Thunder Bay community wide education program using media in an innovative way to assist the community in setting its own goals and priorities Hamilton officer for the On tario Human Rights Commis sion and presently associate minister at First United Church Hamilton The Rev Lois Wilsons responsibilities include being chairman Education and Students Committee Hamilton Presbytery board Member of First Place board member of seniors TeleTouch daily telephone contact for isolated persons The community is invited to the service usually followed by imitative speech and finally vocabulary development By age six child has about 2562 word vocabulary He usually learns nouns verbs adjectives adverbs pronouns and then connective words OUTLINES TYPES Mrs Thelen outlined the types of speech problems Some problems are organic such as when the child has im paired hearing cerebral palsy or physical tongue tie There are also dental abnormalities causing lisping tongue thrust and improper swallowing About 75 per cent of the pro blems are functional articulacy problems she said That is the child simply speaks poorly because he has poor model These children can repeat properly the word say to them she said Stuttering or stammering and cluttered speech are con sidered grimarily psycho logical pro lems Frustration is common problem with stut terers Mr Thelen said In most cases the stutterer shouldnt be prompted when he is having difficulty Therapy varies she said Usually we discuss with the teacher and the parent what situations make the child stut ter she said Hearing problems often result in speech problems Mrs Thelen said Some hearing pro blems can result from allergies and chronic colds The child who is often most difficult to diagnose is the one with occasional hearing loss This child will leave of word endings in his speech or omit whole sounds Hearing problems in general are shown by poor attention span lack of interest in con versation poor comprehension and poor language develop ment Mrs Thelen stressed lair guage stimulation at an early age Let him hear you describe what you are doing even if its washing the dishes Let him know what sounds are such as dogs barking or horns honk mg And most important Dont encourage baby talk Review of La Boheme highlight for chapter Preview of the opera La Boheme was the highlight of the meeting recently of the Bar ric chapter of the Canadian Opera Guild About 35 members met at the home of Mrs Norman Ander son of Sunnidale Road Muriel Colwill was social hostess Jean Dobson Norman Wylie and Johannes Kleiboer quoted the words of the opera and ex plained them through music recordings This was the second opera preview Tickets for the bus tour to La Boheme Oct 11 and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein Sept 27 at the OKeefe Centre are sold out The executive of the guild meets the first Wednesday of every month Autumn Arcade date set by CWL of St Marys St Marys CWL is having an Autumn Arcade Oct 23 from 130t05 pm atthe church General convener Evelyn Gervais Dorothy McNeil bake table Judy Gautier white elephant Kay Giroux jewelry Bev Vincer decorations Georgia Kelly country store Judy Sass sewing table Moira OToole MaryAnn Letour neau candy Rita Coleman and Anita McConnell quilt Hazel Murphy kitchen and Margaret Kelly tea tables The quilt will be on display Oct 15 and 16 at the Georgian Mall Building family history topic at next meeting of historians The Simcoe County Historical Association will hold its next meeting at the Simcoe County Museum Midhurst Oct 12 at pm John Rutledge president of the Ontario Genealogical Society will speak on The story of an Irish immigrant school teacher settl past ing in Upper Canada in 1819 George Rutledge 17941893 Mr Rutledge is graduate of Queens and retired Eatons executive and is pastpresident of the Ontario Regional Lily Society His talk will be il lustrated with slides and he will show samples of the doc uments used to reconstruct family history gotta an cl vents 6The Barrie Examiner Friday Sept 24 1976 Special week set for 10th anniversary The week starting Nov 21 will be special archives week in recognition of the Simcoe Coun ty Archives 10th anniversary dis lay of maps will be featur at an open house Sun day Nov 21 from noon t05 pm in the cultural wing of the museum archives building in Midhurst The maps are of the Central Canada and Great Lakes region dating from 1540 and have been selected to show changing view of this area Scenes from Barrie in the 18705 will be on display during November at the Barrie Public Library Simcoe County Archives was formed in 1966 one of the first county archival dcpostories to be established in Ontario It col lects material related to the history of the county Letters newspapers journals maps photographs and official government documents are in cluded in the collection The archives building con sists of 3500 square feet of working space that is divided into reading room work shop and stack areas Most of the collection is stored in Holl inger boxes which are dust proof acidfree fire resistant and insect protected Special papers and envelopes made of neutral paper are used to wrap items for storage The archives is used by about 700 people annually Illustrated talk given at Central UCW meeting Collier Street United Church United Church Womens gen eral meeting was held as pot luck supper Sept 20 Mrs Merle Dean led the meeting Fall projects such as the rum mage sale on Oct 16 and the fowl supper on Oct 27 were discussed Representatives from the takeabread group attended Their meeting lay has been changed from Tuesday to the second and fourth Wednesday of the month They said they needed baby sitters for these mornings The United Church Women Presbyterial meeting will be held in Cookstown Oct at am WoHeLo Group was in charge of this meeting and led the devotional service Mrs Lois Marshall was the guest speaker Mrs Marshall and her family had lived for time in Malaysia and gave an illustrator talk on the people and conditions of that country She also had on display nu merous momentos ot the crafts of Malaysia Freda and Norm Hewitt were honored by residents of Ovenden Place Blake St Wednesday on their 35th wedding anniversary The couple were married Sept 27 Mr Hewitt is the janitor at the senior citizens re sidence Examiner Photol FIRST TO LAND In 1963 three turbine wered helicopters made the irst landings on the South Pole HOW ABOUT TIIAT The Battle of Antietam on Sept 17 1862 was one of the Civil Wars bloodiest DAVE MAW righti metro divisional viceprcsident of the Society for the Preserva tion and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America Inc was on hand Charter night planned Nov The Barrie hapler of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America is holding premiere show and charter night on Saturday Nov at it pm at Barrie Central ollegiale The show features the Dukes of Harmony Canadian llcr itage Tricity Slickers The Barrie Chapter Chorus as well as variety and comedy 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