A handbook on stuttering / Oliver Bloodstein, Nan Nernstein Ratner, Shellley B. Brundage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloodstein, Oliver, author.

Contributor:

Brundage, Shelley B.

Ratner, Nan Bernstein.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stuttering.

Medical Subjects:

Stuttering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 pages)

Edition:

7th edition.

Other Title:

A handbook of stuttering

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Plural Publishing, Incorporated, 2021.

Summary:

The revised edition of A Handbook on Stuttering continues its remarkable role as the authoritative, first-line resource for researchers and clinicians who work in the field of fluency and stuttering. Now in its seventh edition, this unique book goes beyond merely updating the text to include coverage of roughly 1,000 articles related to stuttering research and practice that have been published since 2008. This extended coverage integrates the more traditional body of research with evolving views of stuttering as a multi-factorial, dynamic disorder.

Contents:

Defining and Describing Stuttering

The Demography of Stuttering: Across the Lifespan, Families, and Communities

Early Childhood Disfluency and Stuttering Onset

Developmental, Medical, Familial, and Educational History of PWS, and the Social and Vocational Impacts of Stuttering

Theories and Models of Stuttering

Motor and Sensory Abilities

Anticipation, Anxiety, and Stuttering

Personality and Temperament

Cognitive and Linguistic Abilities

Conditions Under Which Stuttering Fluctuates

Myths and Mysteries about Stuttering

Assessment of Stuttering

Treatment.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781635503180

1635503183

OCLC:

1235903581