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Recovery from stuttering /

"This book is a comprehensive guide to the evidence, theories, and practical issues associated with recovery from stuttering in early childhood and into adolescence. It examines evidence that stuttering is associated with a range of biological factors such as genetics and psychological factors...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howell, Peter, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis Group, ©2011.
Colección:Language and speech disorders.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • General aspects of developmental stuttering. Definitions, stuttering severity, and categorization instruments
  • Epidemiology
  • Symptomatology
  • Factors related to developmental stuttering based on experimental studies. 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
  • Theoretical frameworks on developmental stuttering. 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
  • Practical issues in developmental stuttering. Early diagnosis of stuttering and its prognosis to teenage years and beyond
  • Subtyping
  • Application to treatment and general issues about recovery.