association of the child with his parents during the period of
early speech development.

THE RESULT OF DISEASE: Many cases of both stammering and
stuttering may be traced back to disease as the basic or
predisposing cause. Acute Chorea (St. Vitus Dance) is frequently
the cause of stuttering of a type known as Choreatic Stuttering or
"Tic Speech." Infantile Cerebral Palsy sometimes brings about a
condition known as "Spastic Speech," while whooping cough, scarlet
fever, measles, meningitis, infantile paralysis, scrofula and
rickets are sometimes responsible for the disorder.

Disease may cause stuttering or stammering as an immediate after
effect or the speech trouble may not show up for considerable
time, depending altogether upon the individual. But regardless of
the length of time elasping between the disease which predisposes
the individual to the speech disorder and the time of the first
evidence of its presence, diagnosis reveals but an insignificant
percentage of organic defects in these cases resulting from
disease, indicating that even here the predominant causative
factor is a mental one.





CHAPTER III

THE PECULIARITIES OF STUTTERING AND STAMMERING