Nature and Treatment of Stuttering: New Directions

Contributors. Preface. I. CHILDHOOD STUTTERING. 1. Epidemiology and Genetics of Stuttering, Susan Felsenfeld. 2. Home Environments and Parent-Child Interaction in Childhood Stuttering, Ehud Yairi. 3. Disfluency Characteristics of Childhood Stuttering, Ehud Yairi 4. Learning and Its Role in Stuttering Development, C. Woodruff Starkweather. II. STUTTERER-NONSTUTTERER DIFFERENCES. 5. Stuttering: A Psycholinguistic Perspective, Nan Bernstein Ratner. 6. Respiratory and Laryngeal Control in Stuttering, Margaret Denny & Anne Smith. 7. Brain Imaging Contributions, Ben C. Watson & Francis J. Freeman. III. ETIOLOGICAL VIEWS OF STUTTERING. 8. Stuttering as an Anticipatory Struggle Reaction, Oliver Bloodstein. 9. Stuttering as a Covert Repair Phenomenon, Herman Kolk & Albert Postma. 10. Stuttering: A Dynamic, Multifactorial Model, Anne Smith & Ellen Kelly. 11. Stuttering: Why Science Hasn't Solved It, William H. Perkins. IV. CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN. 12. Evaluating Childhood Stuttering, Edward G. Conture. 13. Therapy for Younger Children, C. Woodruff Starkweather. 14. Therapy for Children's Stuttering and Emotions, Barry Guitar. 15. Clinical Management of Children: Direct Management Strategies, Peter R. Ramig & Ellen M. Bennett. 16. Managing of Cluttering and Related Fluency Disorders, Kenneth O. St. Louis & Florence L. Meyers. V. CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF ADULTS. 17. Modifying Stuttering - The Stutterer's Reactive Behavior: Perspectives on Past, Present, and Future, David Prins. 18. Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Control Stuttered Speech in Adults, Mark Onslow & Ann Packman. 19. Instrumentation for the Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering, Klaus Bakker. 20. Stuttering and the Measurement of Speech Naturalness, Nicholas Schiavetti & Dale Metz. 21. Self-Measurement and Evaluating Stuttering Treatment Efficacy, Roger J. Ingham and Anne K. Cordes. Afterword. Index.