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If plenty of fresh air and exercise is supplied, and the mind is well-employed so that the worry over the trouble does not disturb the stammerer, then the chances for being in a normal physical condition are good.
Suppose you were handed a rifle, given five hundred cartridges and told to hit a bull's eye at a hundred yards, 499 times out of 500. Suppose you were told that if you missed once you would have to suffer the rest of your life as a stammerer. Would you take the offer? Certainly not!!! And yet that is exactly the opportunity that a stammerer over six years of age has to outgrow his trouble. Dr.
BELOW NORMAL INTELLIGENCE: There is another incurable case which must be included if we are to complete this list of the incurable forms of speech impediments. That is the case of the stammerer who is of below normal intelligence. These cases are very rare and I do not recall but four instances where a case has been diagnosed as incurable on account of the lack of intelligence.
There is another effort. "He s-a-ays put a st-st-stone at Davy's-s-s-s-s grave," interprets the stammerer. "Who's Davy?" asks the oarsman. "What else did he say?" "H-h-h-he's dead!" says the lad. "Bail! bail!" answers the man. "Let's g-g-get 'im out!" suggests the boy in a half-hour. Corkey has been sobbing. "I thought a heap of Lockwin," he answers. "I d-d-don't like a d-d-dead man in the boat!"
In answering the question: "Where Does Stammering Lead?" nothing truer can be found than the words of a man who has stammered himself: "What pen can depict the woefulness, the intensified suffering of the inveterate stammerer, confirmed, stereotyped in a malady seemingly worse than death? Are the afflictions, mental and physical, of the pelted, brow-beaten, down-trodden stutterer imaginary?
As I said before, there were periods of grace when the trouble seemed almost to vanish and I would be delighted to believe that perhaps it was gone forever happy hope! But it was but a delusion, a mirage in the distance, a new road to lead me astray. The affliction always returned, as every stammerer knows returned worse than before.
A stammerer seldom stutters when he sings. When he sings, he has a full knowledge of the words, and is obliged to keep in time to sing neither too fast nor too slow. Besides, he sings in a different key to his speaking voice. Many professors for the treatment of stammering cure their patients by practising lessons of a sing-song character.
In asking this question, the stammerer is getting at the very essence of the successful method of treatment of his malady, for there is no method of curing stuttering, stammering and kindred defects of speech that can bring real and permanent relief from the affliction unless it attacks the cause of the trouble and removes that cause.
His hesitating speech not merely as to his pronunciation, which was that of a stammerer, but also in the expression of his ideas, his thought and language produced on the mind of the hearer the impression of a man who, in familiar phraseology, comes and goes, feels his way, tries everything, breaks off his gestures, and finishes nothing.
This fellow is known as the "Synonym Stammerer" and is usually a quick thinker and a ready "substituter-of-words."
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