Stuttering / Joseph S. Kalinowski, Tim Saltuklaroglu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalinowski, Joseph S., author.

Saltuklaroglu, Tim, author.

Contributor:

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (U.S.)

Series:

NIDCD fact sheet.

NIH publication ; no. 10-4232.

NIDCD Fact Sheet

Publication ; no. 10-4232

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stuttering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Diego, California ; Oxford, England ; Brisbane, [Queensland] : Plural Publishing Inc., 2006.

Summary:

This textbook presents a new paradigm for understanding the nature and treatment of stuttering based on recent discoveries in neuroscience. The authors illustrate how visible stuttering manifestations are actually a solution to a central problem, acting as a compensatory mechanism for a central involuntary block, rather than a problem in themselves. This book features methods that reduce stuttering by inhibiting this central block, through the use of sensory and motor tools, notably mirror neurons, and shows readers that stuttering is not a condition that can be effortlessly ""trained out"" of

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Stuttering and the Person Who Stutters""; ""3. Searching for an Invariant to Define Stuttering:What Is Necessary and Sufficient for Stuttering and How Do We Assess Its Impact?""; ""4. Contemporary Methods of Treating Stuttering""; ""5. Stuttering Inhibition via Mirror Neurons and the Perception-Production Link""; ""6. Second Speech Signals: Sources of Gestural Redundancy""; ""7. Therapy""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-59756-832-5

OCLC:

911246552