Speech Disorders In World War II: VIII. Stuttering

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Review of such material as is available on stuttering in the armed forces. The Army was apparently justified in inducting stutterers into the armed forces. The men observed with this symptom have generally made a good adjustment and have served their country well in Combat, Communication Zones and Zone of Interior assignments. Many of these soldiers would have profited by speech training as demonstrated in this paper, if it had been practicable for the Army to provide such instruction. Should the policy of universal military duty be inaugurated in this country, it is suggested that a more adequate, standardized test service for speech defectives be organized by the Surgeon General, and that those stutterers and other speech defectives otherwise capable of military service be sent to special centers where speech correction would be provided on a systematic basis.

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