“When I left I tipped the scales at 20 pounds heavier than when I went to you.  My folks are certainly pleased to hear me talk without the straining and strangling exertion I had before in trying to force my words out.  Now they flow out nice and easy.”

Many children, both boys and girls, are under developed.  This may have resulted from several causes, but it is frequently traceable to the stammering or stuttering as an indirect cause.  The Bogue Unit Method takes these children in a poor physical condition and while eradicating the defect of speech, brings about a healthy physical development.  An Ohio woman reported excellent results in a letter which said: 

“I am glad to inform you that my son Allan since taking the treatment in June last, has not to my knowledge, stammered once, for which we are all very grateful to the Bogue Method.  I also wish to say that his physical condition is much improved and he has increased in weight about ten pounds.”

Regardless of the age of the student, there is an increased vitality flowing through the entire body, the powers of endurance are greatly increased and the health built up from every stand-point.  One man sent in an enthusiastic report in these words: 

“I am fine and healthy; the people down here say I don’t look like the same person.  I gained 17 pounds while I was out there.  I am talking fine.  My mother says I talk them nearly to death.  I talk them all to bed at night, so they put out the light on me so I will go to bed and hush.  I went down town Saturday night and the boys were sure glad to hear me talk without stammering.”

Even this physical improvement is not unusual.

Another man reports the change brought about in his condition as follows: 

“Just about two years ago I was one of the worst stammerers I know that ever was; it was simply awful.  I could not speak a word without the most terrible stammering you ever heard.  My parents were heartbroken over my condition, which grew worse all the time.  I did not grow and develop like my brothers.  My shoulders were stooped, my chest sunken—­in fact, I was in a terrible condition.  After staying with you for six weeks I came home and every one who knew me when I left was simply astonished at the improvement, not in my speech alone, but in my physical condition also.  Am stronger and well now and I say it is a comfort to be able to talk like other boys.”

This case is not an unusual one, however, for it is frequently found that the stammering child grows into a physically deficient man as a result of his speech impediment.

Concomitant with these physical betterments comes a changed mental attitude, whereby the former pessimistic outlook has been changed to an optimistic view of life.  The former abnormal timidity of the student has been replaced by a perfect confidence; the old unreasoning fear-of-failure is transformed into a feeling of supreme self-reliance; and the depressed, care-worn expression which may once have marked the stammerer’s countenance has given place to that of cheerfulness.