Stuttering, Third edition provides a comprehensive overview of the etiology and development of stuttering and covers appropriate approaches to accurate assessment and treatment.

In this edition, 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.

Stuttering, Third edition also features a new chapter on preliminaries to assessment as well as new information on differential diagnosis of stuttering versus other fluency disorders.

The appendices include forms for diagnosis and evaluation.

Contents

Nature of Stuttering

1. Introduction to Stuttering
2. Constitutional Factors in Stuttering
3. Developmental, Environmental, and Learning Factors
4. Theories about Stuttering
5. Normal Disfluency and the Development of Stuttering

Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering

6. Preliminaries to Assessment
7. Assessment and Diagnosis
8. Preliminaries to Treatment
9. Treatment of Borderline Stuttering
10. Treatment of Beginning Stuttering
11. Treatment of Intermediate Stuttering
12. Treatment of Advanced Stuttering
13. Related Fluency Disorders

Index

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