THE STORY OF SAMUEL MCKAY
The Story of Samuel McKay THE STORY ot Samuel McKay bears a moral for all people, but more especially for those who are trying to meet the requirements of life with remediable speech defects. When...
...and when these impulses are interfered with, halting, broken speech is the result...
...It enables him to say a lot o' things that I don't feel sure of ray ground in calling him down for...
...Washington Star...
...Yes," replied farmer Corntossel...
...The thinking public should drop the hopelessly pessimistic attitude generally hold toward this handicapping disease...
...Severe injuries or surgical operations or great fright may induce it One case is on record where a boy was chased by a vicious hog...
...As soon as the disease begins the child should be examined toy a competent physician or nerve specialist if possible and any abnormal physical condition treated, The treatment consists mostly in carefully re-educating the child's speech and the child then placed in the charge of a trained teacher who has had experience in teaching stutterers, longer...
...He was an especially bright boy and it was easy enough to get a job, but impossible to hold one—for he stuttered...
...Each community should have at least one teacher in its schools trained to handle this class of cases while they are still in the formative stage...
...We should use our influence to prevent characters on the stage from stuttering as a means of getting a laugh...
...a: most serious disease, and though it does not kill it incapacitates the individual nearly as much as would the loss of an arm or leg...
...The most common cause (5f stuttering seems to be a serious or exhausting illness in early childhood, such as measles, whooping cough, and especially scarlet fever...
...Sometimes a stuttering child will start a whole school...
...Catching Up With Dad "Do you think your boy Josh's schooling is an advantage to him...
...in another instance frogs were placed in a child's bed as a practical joke, frightening him so that he became a stutterer...
...With some the cure requires only a few weeks, others much greatly helped...
...It is essentially a disease of childhood and it is then that the cure is easiest...
...Stuttering is...
...It gives him a big advantage over me...
...There are probably over five thousand children in Wisconsin alone suffering from speech defects, and it is our duty to give to this large body of the children of our state every help which science has devised...
...A few may outgrow the disease, but most untreated cases last on into adult life...
...When Samuel was fourteen he had to quit school and go to work to help support the family...
...All cases can be cured or mechanism...
...From one job to another—down the line he went, and with longer periods of depression and hunger, until finally he came to one of the big medical clinicsand was set to work to correct the defect which hud all but made an outcast of him...
...It is one of the unfortunate things that stammering and stuttering are considered funny...
...It would be less perpetually t*ie material for jokes were it better known what a great percentage of this trouble is thus caused by imitation...
...There is a little center in the brain which sends out impulses setting in motion the wonderfully complicated speech mechanism...
Vol. 9 • September 1917 • No. 10
