Stamering And Cognate Defects Of Speech Vol - Ii

224 SYSTEMS OF TREATING STAMMERING

but as aggravants to be excised prior to elocutionary
training.

No intelligent person would contend, of course,
that genuine obstructions to respiration should not
be removed. But such obstructions seldom stand
in causal relation to stammering; and when 79 per
cent of a teacher's prospective pupils require surgical
treatment, one would at least conjecture that the
standards applied are in need of adjustment.