{"id":1195,"date":"2024-11-19T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T19:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=1195"},"modified":"2025-05-05T19:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:32:39","slug":"emil-froeschels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/ashas-european-ancestry\/german-austrian-and-american-connections-in-speech-language-pathology-1850-1950\/emil-froeschels\/","title":{"rendered":"Emil Froeschels\n1884-1972"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Emil Froeschels was a giant in the profession of speech pathology both in Europe and America.  He served as a crucial bridge between European and American Speech Pathology, in the 1940s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Froeschels received his medical degree in otolaryngolgy from the University of Jena in Vienna in 1907. He entered the field at a time when there was considerable activity and interest in new theories and approaches to the speech, language and hearing impaired. His teacher, Viktor Urbantschitsch, a well-known otologist had developed an elaborate program of auditory training for children who were deaf. He also entered the field of medicine at a time when the “German speech doctors” in Berlin were devising diagnostic and therapy approaches for working with people with speech and language problems. For example, Albert Liebmann, Hermann Gutzmann, and Leopold Treitel were developing well-known programs and methods of diagnosis and remediation (Weiner, 1986). Froeschels was also influenced by Wilhelm Preyer, a German professor of physiology whose detailed study of his son’s language development was being widely circulated (Preyer, 1890). And it was a time when the ideas of Sigmund Freud were taking shape. Froeschels drew from these various sources to develop his theories and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1924 Froeschels became head of the Newmann Clinic, a Speech and Hearing Center, in Vienna.  His directorship continued until he was forced to leave for America in 1938.  He called his clinic a logopedics clinic, coining the term logopedics which is now in wide use to mean the scientific study and treatment of speech defects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Froeschels\u2019 clinic became one of the two major centers for logopedics in Europe, the other being that in Berlin established by Hermann Gutzmann Senior.  The friendly rivalry between the two schools was a strong force in European logopedics before the second world war (Black, 1980).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Froeschels served as a leader in the field both in Europe and the US as indicated by the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n