The Origin and Treatment of Stammering

This is practical and scientific treatise on the Cause and Treatment of Speech Defects with original illustrations showing the difference between mild and severe types of stammering. Lectures delivered before Elocutionists' Conventions and Medical Societies with suggestions for treatment. Combining the application of his system with the knowledge that the author received in the best schools on this continent to correct speech defects and voice development, the author found "a method for the cure of stammering", based on an educational basis, a method of stuttering based on scientific psychological and physiological laws that underlie and govern the art of perfect speech, a method of treating stuttering, which consists in returning to the fundamental principles and building speech through a course of study based on a scientific, educational basis. A method of stuttering treatment, in which the student not only learns to speak correctly and flawlessly, but also to manage and control willpower in this regard, with the development of perfect speech, which refers to the affected higher nerve centers, as well as control over the speech organs. This treatment, "The Lewis Phono-Metric Method", is supported not only by some of the best businessmen and professional men in the country, but also received the highest support from renowned schools of public speaking and culture of the voice, as well as other institutions for the treatment of speech defects.