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Show No Mental Handicap in Defective Speech Many educators have held that stuttering stut-tering Is an evidence of psychopathic traits In the mental make-up, and that the child who stutters Is handicapped in his educational progress. But according ac-cording to recent tests made by Dr. Kllzaboth D. .McDowell of Columbia unhersity, the fault of stuttering in a pupil carries with It no lessening of ability. " Doctor McDowell experimented with 7,133 school children, making test3 to Indicate the comparative standing in Intelligence of stutterers and nonstut-te'rs, nonstut-te'rs, school achievement, emotional adjustment, ad-justment, physical fitness, and various speech defects. She found that the stuttering pupil had as high intellectual capacities as the normal child, that his vocabulary Is Just as good, and that physically he Is better off. It was even found that n stuttering child could rattle off as many words In a three tnlnule period pe-riod as anyone ehe. |