Letters.(Letter to the Editor)

Portrait of a Hero

Oliver Bloodstein's incisive nostalgic biographical sketch of Robert West (Nov./Dec. 1999 Asha) brought back poignant memories of my beginnings as an undergraduate in speech-language pathology. Personally, I would credit West as the birth father of medical, especially neurologic, speech-language pathology. His book, which became our bible, The Rehabilitation of Speech by West, Kennely, and Carr, contains the mere seeds of neuropathologies of speech compared to subsequent works, but it was enough to whet our appetites to learn as much as we could about the ...

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