Treatment efficacy for stuttering : a search for empirical bases / edited by Anne K. Cordes and Roger J. Ingham. - San Diego, Calif. : Singular Pub. Group, c1998. - xiv, 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Papers based on a 3-day "State-of-the-Art Conference" held at the University of Georgia in March, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current themes in research and theory: recovery without treatment; definition and measurement of stuttering; implications of genetics research for stuttering treatment; on trying to learn from speech-motor control research on stuttering. Treatment procedures and outcomes: current status of the stuttering treatment literature; the fluent speech of children who received treatment for stuttering; developing treatment programmes for preschool children who stutter; assessing the impact of a common treatment for stuttering; toward cost-effective control of stuttering in adults; factors other than speech disfluency that influence the effectiveness of stuttering treatment; extraclinical generalization from stuttering treatments; toward effective treatments for stuttering.

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Stuttering--Treatment--Congresses.

RC424 / .T698 1998

616.855 406 COR I