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Dear Sir: I hope that you are not disposed to contribute to the injury of the 200,000 or 300,000 stammering pupils in the public schools ; so I make a few corrections to the features in Mrs. Mabel C. Gifford's report, recently published in The Review, which would contribute to their injury if not corrected.Those injurious features are :(1) Endorsement of the Bluemel theory, also the Swift theory.(2) Advocacy of breathing and articulatory exercises.(3) Disparagement of the spontaneous recoveries.The Bluemel Theory Mrs. Gifford is right in finding the Bluemel theory very convincing.None other than Dr. Makuen was carried away by the plausible presentation of it, and it is probably the most accepted view in this country.But Dr. Makuen quickly repudiated it as " .not altogether satisfactory or conclusive, . ..";Fletcher classified it with Swift's theory and found both to "seem on their face to be so palpably wrong that a lengthy investigation

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