Show Speech Clinic Demonstration Shows Progress Fifteen adult who spent the past eight week period in the improvement of their presented a final demonstration showing the progress they have made in overcoming their fear oi stuttering on Thursday in Kingsbury The group has been under the leadership of Edward speech from the staff of the University of Minnesota Speech and Hearing As a part of the Thursday the group showed the progress they have made in overcoming their fear of stuttering before a Boyd V. acting director of the university Speech stated that prior to coming to the Speech some of the group members had never talked before classroom and characteristically avoided all forms of During the present course of speech they have spoken before approximately twenty university an experience which has helped greatly in reducing their fear of stuttering before which the selected to describe some aspect of their about which they have had unusual sensitivities in the were used during the course of the introductions to the members of the They have learned to see much of the humor which develops around stuttering arid can now enjoy aspects of their behavior which was formerly a most serious This change of attitude was exemplified on Thursday evening by a song which the group has written about itself and the individual idiosyncrasies During the time they have been at the Speech the group has been in session for thirty hours a and in addition has spent on the average of two hours each evening on assignments given during the |