Stewart, Trudy,

Navigating adult stammering : 100 points for speech and language therapists / Trudy Stewart. - xxi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. - Navigating speech and language therapy .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The person who stammers
The therapist
The therapeutic relationship
Beginning sessions: the narrative, goal setting and assessment
Therapy: general points
Therapy: fluency modification or 'speak more fluently' approach
Therapy: stammering modification or 'stammer more easily' approach
Therapy: 'stammer more proudly'
Psychological approaches
Maintaining positive outcomes and planning for the re-emergence of roles and behaviours
Support networks
Final thoughts
Appendix 1: Formal assessments currently in use
Appendix 2: Cognitive restructuring: learning to manage unhelpful thoughts

"This book, the first in an exciting new series, provides speech and language therapy students, newly qualified, and beginning stammering specialists with 100 key points that will help form a strong foundation for their work supporting adults and teenagers who stammer. Comprised of practical, relevant and useful advice from an experienced clinician, chapters break advice down into sections which include information about the therapeutic relationship, therapeutic approaches and signposts to further resources. Throughout the book, comments from stammering specialists describe what they wish they had known at the start of their career. This book:

9781032012520

2021056482


Stuttering--Treatment.
Speech therapy.

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