Show no mental handicap in defective speech many educators have held that stuttering Is an evidence of psychopathic traits in the mental makeup make matee up and that tho child who stutters Is lia handicapped ud lapped in his educational progress but according 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 school children malting making tests to indicate the comparative standing in intelligence of stutter ers and school achievement emotional adjustment ju physical fitness and various speech defects she found that the stuttering pupil had bad as high intellectual capacities as the normal child that his vocabulary ary Is just as good and that physically he Is better off it was even found that a stuttering child could rattle leoff oft as many words in a three minute period as anyone else |