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Because I Stutter
Wendell Johnson
New York: D. Appleton and Company (1930)
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Enjoy. - Nicholas Johnson
Dust Jacket, Front Cover
A young man who has stuttered from childhood tells the story of his
life, frankly revealing how his "awkward tongue" has moulded
the development of his mind, his personality, ambitions, and attitudes
towards life. It is a very vivid and human story, of absorbing interest
for everyone afflicted with a speech defect, and of unique scientific value
for parents and teachers of stutterers.
Dust Jacket, Inside Flap
Because I Stutter
By Wendell Johnson
Mr. Johnson describes the purpose of his unique book in the opening
paragraph:
"I am a stutterer. An awkward tongue has moulded my life -- and
I have only one life to live. . . . I shall try therefore, to tell what
it means to stutter . . . to describe the influence that stuttering has
had on the development of my personality, my ambitions, my fundamental
attitudes towards life."
Mr. Johnson is a young man, now a graduate student in psychology at
the University of Iowa. He has been under the treatment of specialists
in the Speech Clinic at that University, and his disability is gradually
yielding to treatment. His book is of unique scientific importance, for
it is the first subjective stydy of stuttering ever made by a stutterer,
and as an autobiography -- which in essence the book is -- of a gifted
young man set apart from his fellows by "an awkward tongue,"
it is a deeply appealing human document.
With an introduction by Edward Lee Travis [sic], Director of the
Speech Clinic in the State University of Iowa.
$1.50
D. Appleton and Company
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2005****
[Title Page]
BECAUSE I STUTTER
BY
WENDELL JOHNSON
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
LEE EDWARD TRAVIS, Ph.D
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1930
COPYRIGHT, 1930 BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
THE MEMORY OF
MY MOTHER
By generous encouragement and suggestions Carl Emil Seashore and Lee
Edward Travis have greatly assisted me in the writing of this book. As
to the subject matter, it is my own life, in which a great many people
have played such parts as I am gradeful for, I regret that a more definite
acknowledgment would be quite impossible.
W.J.
CONTENTS
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who wish to cite a passage to refer to the page number in the original
hard copy book. - NJ]
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