Stamering And Cognate Defects Of Speech Vol - Ii

j " STAMMERING-SCHOOLS" 305

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! When all these men are eliminated, there will be

! decidedly fewer persons treating stammering. Those

( remaining will be of two classes: the good-hearted

and well-meaning souls that know nothing about the

malady, and the ingenuous and more intelligent

students of stammering as a deep and intricate

j psychological problem. Men of the latter class are

almost exclusively physicians, and the best of

them are undoubtedly found in the German Empire.

— Probably the stammerer would learn little from

these men that is not accessible in reputable mono-

, graphs; but he might benefit from personal contact

* with good teachers and from association with other

stammerers.

Much success has been achieved by a few stammer-
ing-schools established especially for young children.
We have already emphasized the fact that during

! childhood, when the secondary causes have not yet

supervened, stammering usually yields readily to
rational treatment But it is not by any means nec-

| essary, and perhaps by .no means desirable, that a

young cMld be incarcerated in an institution. An
intelligent mother can usually accomplish all that is
possible for a stammering child if, instead of supinely

' waiting for him to "outgrow"- the difficulty, she will

undertake to combat the impediment.
In the first place, the child must himself be induced