Stuttering and lisping . lysis when asked to givehis name or any exact information as resulting fromthe fact that he is overwhelmed by having someone depend on him for information that he alonecan give. A third stage occurs not infrequently. Thestutterer is no longer embarrassed by his defect. Itis obnoxious to him, and he would like to be rid of it,but the fright has disappeared. This may be termedthe stage of indifference. It is usually found inolder patients; they stutter because the habit isfirmly fixed and not because they are embarrassed. In many cases stuttering seems to be associatedwi
Stuttering and lisping . lysis when asked to givehis name or any exact information as resulting fromthe fact that he is overwhelmed by having someone depend on him for information that he alonecan give. A third stage occurs not infrequently. Thestutterer is no longer embarrassed by his defect. Itis obnoxious to him, and he would like to be rid of it,but the fright has disappeared. This may be termedthe stage of indifference. It is usually found inolder patients; they stutter because the habit isfirmly fixed and not because they are embarrassed. In many cases stuttering seems to be associatedwith a peculiarity of character. This cannot beattributed entirely to the presence of the one case in my experience the child had previouslydeveloped a condition of nervousness which hadbecome very extreme on account of lack of training SYMPTOMS, FORMS, NATURE 21 in self-control. The stuttering habit, engraftedon this, became very violent. In another case thestuttering was associated with slowness of thought;. Fig. 1. — Recording the movements of breathing by the graphic metal cups with rubber tops are fixed over the chest by aband. Expansion over the chest draws air into the cups. Theyare connected by a rubber tube to a small recording is a metal cup with a rubber top which moves a light recordinglever. A line drawn by this lever on a smoked surface moved byclockwork gives a record of the breathing movements. The record-ing arrangements can be attached to the abdomen also. sometimes the hesitation in speech seemed to be acloak for hesitation in thought. Several previousattempts at cure had failed to be permanent onaccount of lack of moral backbone. In another 22 STUTTERING AND LISPING case the stuttering had appeared in a small boywho had never been taught any self-control. Veryoften stutterers are shy and bashful to an extentthat can hardly be justified by their painful speechexperiences. The stutterers speech movements may be accu-rately
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