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Book, page 141 / 147 CHAPTER VIII A HEART-TO-HEART TALK WITH PARENTS If you are the mother or father of a child who stammers, you should first of all read Chapters IX to XIV, inclusive, in Part Two of this book. These chapters deal with the speech disorders of children from before the first spoken word up until the age of 21, when structurally as well as legally the mind and body of the infant merge into that of the adult. No mother or father can understand their child's disorder without having read these Chapters. To fail to understand is to multiply the chance for error in deciding what to do. Therefore, I repeat, if you are the mother or father of a boy or girl who stammers, read chapters on Child Stammering before you go further. There are three mistaken beliefs in the minds of many parents of stammering children which must be rooted out before the child will have an opportunity to be cured of his trouble. These beliefs are: 1--That the child will outgrow his trouble and therefore need only be permitted to "grow older," at which tune the trouble will disappear. 2--That the child could stop stammering if he would try--that the trouble is but a malicious habit of the child's, which he could put away from him if he would. 3--That the child's trouble is incurable and that nothing can be done for him. All of these beliefs are entirely fallacious and based purely upon ignorance of the cause and progress of the child's trouble. There is not the slightest scientific foundation for them, they are not beliefs based on facts or upon experience--yet in many homes, they constitute the chief obstacle between the stammering child and his
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