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Recovery from stuttering / Peter Howell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language and speech disorders | Language and speech disordersPublication details: New York : Psychology, c2011.Description: x, 390 p., [2] p. of plates . : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848729162 (hbk.) :
  • 9781848729162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8554 22
Contents:
(Publisher-supplied data) Definitions, Stuttering Severity, and Categorization Instruments -- Epidemiology -- Symptomatology -- Genetic Factors and Their Impact on Onset and Recovery of Stuttering -- CNS Factors in Investigations Into Persistent and Recovered Stuttering -- Cognitive Factors -- Language Factors -- Motor Factors -- Environmental, Personality, and Emotional Factors -- Models That Attribute Stuttering to Language Factors Alone -- Theories That Explain Why Altered Feedback Improves the Speech Control of Speakers Who Stutter and General Theories of Speech Production That Include Accounts of Stuttering -- Model That Proposes an Interaction Between Language and Motor Factors: EXPLAN -- Early Diagnosis of Stuttering and Its Prognosis to Teenage Years and Beyond -- Subtyping -- Application to Treatment and General Issues About Recovery.
Summary: This is a guide to the evidence, theories & practical issues associated with recovery from stuttering in early childhood & into adolescence. The text examines evidence that stuttering is associated with a range of biological & psychological factors, & assesses theoretical accounts that attempt to integrate these findings.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

(Publisher-supplied data) Definitions, Stuttering Severity, and Categorization Instruments -- Epidemiology -- Symptomatology -- Genetic Factors and Their Impact on Onset and Recovery of Stuttering -- CNS Factors in Investigations Into Persistent and Recovered Stuttering -- Cognitive Factors -- Language Factors -- Motor Factors -- Environmental, Personality, and Emotional Factors -- Models That Attribute Stuttering to Language Factors Alone -- Theories That Explain Why Altered Feedback Improves the Speech Control of Speakers Who Stutter and General Theories of Speech Production That Include Accounts of Stuttering -- Model That Proposes an Interaction Between Language and Motor Factors: EXPLAN -- Early Diagnosis of Stuttering and Its Prognosis to Teenage Years and Beyond -- Subtyping -- Application to Treatment and General Issues About Recovery.

This is a guide to the evidence, theories & practical issues associated with recovery from stuttering in early childhood & into adolescence. The text examines evidence that stuttering is associated with a range of biological & psychological factors, & assesses theoretical accounts that attempt to integrate these findings.

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