A NEW CLINIC IN NEW YORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 14

A NEW CLINIC IN NEW YORK

Americans took very rapidly to "the English version of the- baby centre and, with a great deal of money at their command, established them on a large scale. The same thing happened with the dental clinics, -which are probably far ahead of anything of the kind in the world. In the realm of practical politics the new clinic for defective speech which has just been established' in New York is probably as useful an institution as could be imagined. " Children- who stutter and lisp and have general difficulties in speech are far more numerous than is generally thought. The defect is passed over as being unimportant ot-'hopeless, and the child who might have been cured of an embarrassing complaint becomes an 1 adult who is , mostif.;.often incurable. At certain hospitals and institutions speech .clinics are already in existence, since speech is most easily affected by*a nervous, indisposition. The hew clinic is being established among a. more general public, which it hopes to pave from a later and far more difficult condition by means of immediate treatment. -Stuttering,, stammering, lisping, inability to pronounce certain sounds are all declared to be curable, if only they . can be taken in time, and the difference to the nervous- child who is afflicted with any one of them is evident. Whether 'all. the clinics—the dental, the mental hygiene, the posture correction clinicare calculated eventually to turn out the '; ijirteqt man open to question. Sfe,