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Show No Plental Handicap in Defective Speech Jinny educators have held that stuttering stut-tering is an evidence of psychopathic traits iu 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. Elizabeth D. McDowell of Columbia university, the fault of stuttering in a pupil carries with It no lessening of ability. Doctor McDowell experimented with 7.13S school children, mailing tests to indicate the comparative standing In intelligence of stutterers nnd nonsl utters, ut-ters, 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 a stuttering child could rattle off as many words in a three-minute period pe-riod as anyone else. |