STAMMERING AND STUTTERING

The Causes, Peculiarities, Tendencies and Effects





CHAPTER I

SPEECH DISORDERS DEFINED


In the diagnosis of speech disorders, there are almost as many
different forms of defective utterance as there are cases, all of
which forms, however, divide themselves into a few basic types.
These various disorders might be broadly classified into three
classes:

(1)--Those resulting from carelessness in learning to speak;
(2)--Those which are of distinct mental form; and
(3)--Those caused by a physical deformity in the organs of
speech themselves.

Regardless of under which of these three heads a speech disorder
may come, it is commonly spoken of by the laymen as a "speech
impediment" or "a stoppage in speech" notwithstanding the fact
that the characteristics of the various disorders are quite
dissimilar. In certain of the disorders,