Presents a variety of approaches to stuttering and its treatment. Comprehensive reviews explain several important research areas and address their implications for treatment. The text presents data and interpretations from several different treatments for children and adults who stutter.
Presents a variety of approaches to stuttering and its treatment. Comprehensive reviews explain several important research areas and address their implications for treatment. The text presents data and interpretations from several different treatments for children and adults who stutter.
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-1-56593-904-2 (9781565939042)
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University of Georgia, Athens, USA
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Current themes in research and theory: recovery without treatment; definition and measurement of stuttering; implications of genetics research for stuttering treatment; on trying to learn from speech-motor control research on stuttering. Treatment procedures and outcomes: current status of the stuttering treatment literature; the fluent speech of children who received treatment for stuttering; developing treatment programmes for preschool children who stutter; assessing the impact of a common treatment for stuttering; toward cost-effective control of stuttering in adults; factors other than speech disfluency that influence the effectiveness of stuttering treatment; extraclinical generalization from stuttering treatments; toward effective treatments for stuttering.
