Stammering, its cause and cure

by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

STAMMERING

ITS CAUSE AND CURE

BY

BENJAMIN NATHANIEL BOGUE

A Chronic Stammerer for Almost Twenty Years; Originator of the Bogue Unit Method of Restoring Perfect Speech; Founder of the Bogue Institute for Stammerers and Editor of the "Emancipator," a magazine devoted to the Interests of Perfect Speech

TO MY MOTHER

That wonderful woman whose unflagging courage held me to a task that I never could have completed alone and who when all others failed, stood by me, encouraged me and pointed out the heights where lay success—this volume is dedicated

CONTENTS

	[Preface ]
PART I—MY LIFE AS A STAMMERER
I.	[Starting Life Under a Handicap]
II.	[My First Attempt to Be Cured]
III.	[My Search Continues]
IV.	[A Stammerer Hunts a Job]
V.	[Further Futile Attempts to Be Cured]
VI.	[I Refuse to Be Discouraged]
VII.	[The Benefit of Many Failures]
VIII.	[Beginning Where Others Had Left Off]

PART II—STAMMERING AND STUTTERING
The Causes, Peculiarities, Tendencies and Effects
I.	[Speech Disorders Defined]
II.	[The Causes of Stuttering and Stammering]
III.	[The Peculiarities of Stuttering and Stammering]
IV.	[The Intermittent Tendency]
V.	[The Progressive Tendency]
VI.	[Can Stammering and Stuttering Be Outgrown?]
VII.	[The Effect on the Mind]
VIII.	[The Effect on the Body]
IX.	[Defective Speech in Children, (1) The Pre-Speaking Period]
X.	[Defective Speech in Children, (2) The Formative Period]
XI.	[Defective Speech in Children, (3) The Speech-Setting Period]
XII.	[The Speech Disorders of Youth]
XIII.	[Where Does Stammering Lead?]