Thomas Hunt (speech therapist)
British speech therapist
Thomas Perkins Lowman Hunt (1802 in Whitchurch, Dorset – 18 August 1851 in Godlingstone near Swanage) was an English speech therapist, inventor of a method claiming to cure stammering.
Early life
Hunt was born in Dorset in 1802. His leisure was spent in Dorset, where he cultivated land, and made agricultural improvements and experiments. He is said to have been educated at Winchester, Hampshire; and to have entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1822, with the intention of becoming a minister of the church of England. The experience of a fellow-collegian who stammered is said to have arrested his attention, and he left Cambridge without taking a degree in order to devote himself to the study and cure of what he called 'defective utterance'.
Speech Therapist
1827
He found that the lips, the tongue, the jaws, and the breath were in different cases the offending members. Thinking that he was able to cure stammering, he sought wider experience in a provincial tour, and finally in 1827 settled in Regent Street, London. He relied on simple common-sense directions. Each case was studied separately. Sometimes slow and sometimes rapid articulation was recommended to his patients, others were taught to place their tongues in particular positions, and others practised improved means of breathing.
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