Stuttering
Subtitle: an integrated approach to its nature and treatment
By: Barry Guitar.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Stuttering; Stuttering -- Treatment; Stuttering -- diagnosis; Stuttering -- etiology; Stuttering -- therapy
Description: From the Publisher: This new Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the etiology and development of stuttering and details appropriate approaches to accurate assessment and treatment. A new chapter on related fluency disorders discusses evaluation and treatment of stuttering associated with neurological disease or trauma, psychological disturbance, or mental retardation, and explains how developmental stuttering can be differentiated from these conditions. This edition also features a new chapter on preliminaries to assessment as well as new information on differential diagnosis of stuttering versus other fluency disorders. Appendices include forms for diagnosis and evaluation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.