Stuttering
Subtitle: foundations and clinical applications
By: Ehud Yairi, Carol H. Seery.
Contributors: Seery, Carol H.
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780131573109
Subjects: Stuttering; Stuttering
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is stuttering? Event and disorder; title: Who and how many stutter?; title: When and how does stuttering begin? Onset and development; title: Where does it end? Advanced characteristics, rules, and phenomena; title: Why do people stutter? Evaluating theories and models; title: Is stuttering psychological? Psychoemotional, psychobehavioral, and psycholinguistic theories; title: Is stuttering "biological"? Neuromotor, genetics; title: Stuttering therapy : issues, directions, research, ethics; title: Evaluation of adults and school-age children; title: Adult therapy : focus on emotional reactions; title: Therapy for adults : focus on stuttering and fluency; title: Therapy for school-age children; title: Assessment of stuttering in early childhood; title: Treatment of preschool-age children who stutter; title: Other fluency disorders and multicultural/bilingual issues.