Understanding stuttering / Nathan Lavid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavid, Nathan.

Series:

Understanding health and sickness series.

Understanding health and sickness series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech disorders.

Stuttering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Health & sickness -- Consumer Health -->. Stuttering is an affliction that affects every ethnicity and every culture equally, some sixty million people worldwide. Five percent of children stutter. Typically this debilitating condition emerges when a child is between the ages of two and six. Twenty percent of these children will continue to stutter as adults. Although it is so pervasive, there is great misunderstanding about stuttering. Socially isolating those it strikes, the disorder prevents them from the kind of candid discussions that would help them gain an understanding of it. In turn, s

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Stuttering Defined; 2. Who Stutters?; 3. The Biology of Stuttering; 4. Treatments for Stuttering; 5. Searching for a Cure; Appendix A: How to Converse with Children and Adults Who Stutter; Appendix B: Sources of Additional Information; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [87]-95) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48471-0

9786612484711

1-60473-043-9

OCLC:

55535317