Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders

Silverman (Marquette U. Medical College of Wisconsin) examines contemporary and historical theories of the etiology of stuttering and other fluency disorders. The author draws on 40 years of clinical experience in speech-language pathology and some 60 years of personal experience as one who stutters. The third edition includes updated material on stuttering; expanded material on cluttering, neurogenic acquired stuttering, and psychogenic acquired stuttering; a new chapter on the prevention of stuttering as an impairment, a disability, a handicap, and an overlay; and the addition of instructional objectives at the beginning of each chapter. For upper-division undergraduate and masters-level graduate students, and practicing clinicians. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Titles of related interest also from Waveland Press: Silverman, Essentials of Professional Issues in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (9781577662914) and Van Riper-Smith, An Introduction to General American Phonetics, Third Edition (ISBN 9780881336719).