Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 38

88 “STAMMERING HELD - HANDIGAP TOGRLS ““Woman Educator Says Those " With Defective Speech Rare-| ly Become Leaders. s;,)IOL"\'T HOLYOKE, Mass., Septem- sber 18.—Lisping and stammering are | 2 no longer thought “cute,” and in this ‘day and age they may prove to be Y fatal economic and social handicaps. ~in the opinion of Dr. Sarah M. Stinch . field, professor of psychology at Mount * Holyoke College. Prof. Stinchfield has ‘made a four-year study of the problem of speech defect in college students at *Mount Holyoke and finds in addition that they are symptoms of serious character defects as well. ‘Girls with speech defects rarely become leaders in college activities or rise to the top in scholarship or in creative work,” Prof. Stinchfield said. ‘While some of the girls who lisp and stutter do have superior mental en- ‘dowments, most of them fall ini *classes whose scholarship s low. Th almost never belong to honor societi ~in college, and in the future they _apt to be seriously handicapped in the business or professional worlds.” > Unsettled home conditions, domi- neering parents and feelings of in feriority in the hume because of an older brother or sister who is more brilliant are often to blame for emo tional instability. Prof. Stinchfield ex *plained. Unlike the ¢ of adolescent bovs, sex problems are not as a rule WAt the root of the evil in girls. seated feelings of inferjority the home or «chool are at the hot- Mom of the inabilit children to ex- *press themselves to talk Tnormally in many ¢ $Home life or school life be 1o blame. Prof. Stinchfield say sand the cause should be sought o “nd attention cted to correcting The defect. Private schools do better \than the public schools in cultivating 1good speech habits, as shown by the \Eirls examined. 200,000 DOLLS GOING FROM U. S. 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