According to Dr. Ernest Tompkins, of Pasadena, California, stammering can bo cured onlv by training the child ns soon as it begins to stammer. Ifora __ what ho writes in the "Medical Record it 6ceins certain ihat Dr. Tompkins wa» a stammerer and had been cured. He says over)- stammerer is possessed by a. fear of his speech impediment; whenever he can forget this fear ho, sneaks without stammering. Every indulgence in his stammering intensifies his fear and OTcry suppression of it increases his power to overcomo tlio defect., The small child can bo cured if he bo made to stop talking the instant ho stammers. For the fluent spells wttiich naturally occur will supply sufficient normal speech to dissipate Hie fear o£ disability. And the moment this fear has vanished the child will stammer no longer.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 3, 29 September 1919, Page 4
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