This edited volume collects in-depth chapters about a wide variety of topics important to data-based stuttering treatment and stuttering treatment research, creating the first book to address current knowledge about stuttering in the context of current d

Using an evidence-based approach, this textbook and clinical reference gives you the tools to determine the optimal treatment to eliminate or reduce a client's stuttering. Moreover, it guides you step by step through the implementation of all the latest tested and proven treatments. Treatment of Stuttering begins with a discussion of basic concepts that helps you better understand the science underlying the treatment options. The book is then organized into sections, with an overview chapter beginning each section that offers a critical evaluation f the treatments covered in that section. The final chapter shows you how to manage specific clinical scenarios, taking advantage of everything you've learned from the text. Features to Help You Treat stuttering successfully- Summary tables beginning each section offer a quick overview of the core elements of the treatments covered in the section. Key terms that you need to understand are in bold in the text and defined in the glossary. Case studies with critical thinking questions put you in the place of a speech pathologist evaluating clients, deciding treatments, and solving problems. Chapter review questions enable you to access your grasp of key concepts as you advance in the text. Suggested readings lead to additional information about specific Stuttering treatments. Written by leading speech pathologists Barry Guitar and Rebecca McCauley, Treatment of Stuttering is a reference you can count on to guide you to the best treatments for your clients. Book jacket.

This book is a clinical resource for speech-language pathologists who work with school-age children who stutter. It provides comprehensive assessment and intervention strategies designed to enhance positive therapy outcomes.

Stuttering: An Integrated Approach to Its Nature presents the most comprehensive textbook on the topic today, providing an overview of the etiology and development of stuttering and details, appropriate approaches to accurate assessment and treatment. Exploring a variety of practice settings, this core introductory book grounds all topics in a firm basis of the disorder’s origin and nature. This edition has been thoroughly updated to address all current methodologies.

This state-of-the art volume is a follow-up to the 1999 publication, Stuttering Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap, edited by Nan Ratner and E. Charles Healey. Like its predecessor, the current book is an edited collection of the presentations from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Annual Leadership Conference in Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Among the topics covered are evidence-based practice, impact of the self-help and support groups, meta-analyses of selected assessment and intervention programs, current theories of stuttering, and the predicted path of stuttering intervention in the future. The authoritative representation of contributors offers the reader the most up to date presentation of fluency issues, with a special emphasis placed on the practical clinical implications of fluency assessment, treatment, and evolving theories of the disorder. The book is written for fluency specialists and graduate students in programs of fluency disorders. It will also be valuable for the clinicians who wish to upgrade their skills in treating fluency disorders.

Chapters in the first section review five areas of inquiry-- spontaneous recovery, definition and measurement, genetics, speech motor control, and stuttering theory--while seeking treatment implications of that knowledge. The second section focuses more directly on the evaluation of treatment options and treatment outcomes, and addresses both direct and indirect treatments for children and adults. The 12 contributions are based on papers presented at a State-of-the-Art Conference held at the University of Georgia, March 1997. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Provides guidance for the early assessment, diagnosis, and the treatments and adjunctive therapies available for each disorder of fluency. This work includes an overview of the knowledge regarding the influence of language and phonology on stuttering, and the implications these factors have for assessment and treatment.