STUTTERING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 454, 4 March 1919, Page 3

STUTTERING.

It ha* bees maintained by a Ger* man physician that stuttering consists in a rushing l together of the consonants, and consequently his' method of treatment has for its object the teaching of the relative significance of the vowel and the consonant sounds. The patiexit is made to speak sentences with prolonged vowels and short consonants, so that even at the first lesson many sentences are spoken ;easily and fluently. The psychic efjfect is soon apparent, the patient regaining confidence in his ability to |speak plainly, and the result is excellent in a very short time. This ihetbod can also be employed with young children. Stuttering may be caused by the infectious diseases, injury to the head, imitation of other or by heredity. Its more frequent occurrence in males than in Ifemales is to be explained by the greater motility of all the voluntary; jnauscles in womoi than in men, the {tongue included.