ew as to be almost an exception, but where those cases exist,
they must be regarded as incurable. The re-educational process used in
the successful method of curing stuttering and stammering will not
replace a defective organ of the body with a new one. It will not cure
harelip or cleft palate, nor will it loosen the tongue of the child who
has been hopelessly tongue-tied from birth.

A boy was brought to me some years ago by his parents in the hope that
his speech trouble might be eradicated, but it was found upon
examination that he had always been tongue-tied and that the deformity
would not permit of the normal, natural movements of the tongue
necessary to proper speaking. I immediately told the parents the
unfortunate condition of their son and frankly stated that in his
condition there was no possibility of my being able to help him.

DISEASED BRAIN: Taking up the second class--those who have a diseased
condition of the brain--these cases, too, are very rare. I have met but
a comparatively few. Where a lesion of the brain has occurred, and a
distinct change has thus been brought about in the physical structure
of that organ, an attempt to bring about a cure would be a waste of
time--hopeless from the start.

THE PROCRASTINATORS: The third type of incurable cases is that of the
stammerer or stutterer who, against all advice and experience, has
persisted in the belief that his trouble would be outgrown and who has
by this means allowed the disorder to progress so far into the chronic
stage as to make treatment entirely without effect.

This type of incurable is very numerous. They usually start in
childhood with a case of simple stuttering which, if treated then,
could be eradicated quickly and easily. From this stage they usually
pass into the trouble of a compound nature, known as combined
stammering and stuttering. Here, also, their malady would yield readily
to proper methods of treatment, but instead of giving it the attention
so badly needed, they allow it to pass into a severe case of Spasmodic
Stammering, and from this into the most chronic stage of that trouble.
The malady becomes rooted in the muscular system. The nervous strain
and continued fear tear down all semblance of mental control and in
time the sufferer is in a condition that is hopeless indeed, a
condition where he is subject for the pity and the sympathy of every
one who stammers, and yet a condition brought on purely by his own
neglect and