A Handbook on Stuttering
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 141804203X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 568 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The person who stutters: personality 8. The person who stutters: cognitive and linguistic abilities 9. Subject Index. Theories of stuttering 3. Diagnosis and treatment Appendix: Results of Treatment References. Early stuttering and normal disfluency 13. The person who stutters: central neurological findings 5. Symptomatology 2. The person who stutters: developmental history and home environment 10. The person who stutters: other physical findings 7. Stuttering as a response 11. The person who stutters: motor abilities 6. Stuttering as a response: some controversial phenomena 12. Inferences and conclusions 14. Prevalence and incidence 4. 1. Author Index
Many good parts, but out of date Oliver Bloodstein's A Handbook on Stuttering for Professional Workers wasfirst published 1959. He wrote brief summaries of all of the researchfindings in the field of stuttering. This totaled 88 pages. In 1969 heexpanded the booklet and shortened the title to A Handbook on Stuttering.New editions were published in 1975, 1981, 1987, and 1995.For the 2007 edition, Bloodstein asked Nan Bernstein Ratner to bring thebook up to date. The result is over 500 pages covering 2800 studies!However, the book needed an overhaul, not just an update.The book's structure reflects stutterin. "The only book on stuttering--all others are pretenders!" according to A Customer. Dr. Bloodstein's work will endure long after the current "how to make stuttering disappear" books via sleight of hand or "secret techniques" have been "swept away by the reality of their utter failure". Not an easy read, but an essential one for any clinician, scientist, or person who stutters. A complete reading will make one well-informed as to the nature of stuttering and decades of research findings- plus Bloodstein's cogent synthesis and interpretations. The critique on therapy in the back of the book is compelling, but all too often ignored.. Authoritative but dry as a bone This is probably the most important book on stuttering in print today. It is also one of the driest volumes in speech-language pathology I have ever read. Will tell you more about stuttering than you may want to know. Significantly, the material on treatment covers only 50 pages out of 600, so this is not the book you want to spend your money on if you are a speech therapist looking for treatment material. This is more of an overview of every scrap of research done on the subject since day one. Touches on every study ever done on the subject. Difficult reading because of i
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NYUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD
The esteemed A Handbook on Stuttering, now in its 6th edition, continues to be the only existing work that offers a comprehensive review of evidence-based knowledge about the etiology, nature, and treatment of stuttering. Rarely does a textbook transcend the ordinary to be universally considered a "classic". Since the last edition was published there have been numerous important advances in research on stuttering, particularly with regard to brain research and language development. This edition captures these new developments, without losing the historical information that makes it so unique.