A Handbook on Stuttering

The revised edition of A Handbook on Stuttering continues its remarkable role as the authoritative, first-line resource for researchers and clinicians who work in the field of fluency and stuttering. Now in its seventh edition, this unique book goes beyond merely updating the text to include coverage of roughly 1,000 articles related to stuttering research and practice that have been published since 2008. This extended coverage integrates the more traditional body of research with evolving views of stuttering as a multi-factorial, dynamic disorder.

Comprehensive, clear, and accurate, this text provides evidence-based, practical information critical to understanding stuttering. By thoroughly examining the intricacies of the disorder, A Handbook on Stuttering, Seventh Edition lays the foundation needed before considering assessment and treatment.

New to the Seventh Edition

• A completely reorganized table of contents, including two new chapters.
• The deletion of approximately 1,000 non-peer-reviewed references from the previous edition to assure discussion of the highest quality evidence on stuttering.
• New content on the development of stuttering across the lifespan and assessment.
• Given the Handbook’s historic role as a primary reference for allied professionals, a new chapter that addresses myths and misconceptions about stuttering
• Expanded coverage on the role of temperament in childhood stuttering
• Expanded coverage of brain-based research, genetics, and treatment findings.
• A thoroughly updated chapter on conditions under which stuttering fluctuates
• Brief tutorial overviews of critical concepts in genetics, neuroimaging, language analysis and other relevant constructs, to better enable reader appreciation of research findings.
• A greater selection of conceptual illustrations of basic concepts and findings than in prior editions
• Integrated cross-referencing to content across chapters
• A PluralPlus companion website showing the deleted content from the previous edition

Review

“…The purpose of this book is to help others understand the nature of stuttering and better utilize the information we now have available to us… This handbook provides an initial broad review, and then goes on to highlight the variables that influence fluency in children and adults throughout their lives.   
This book is meant for people of many clinical fields, as well as for those who stutter and their families across the lifespan. It is detail oriented and provides a wide variety of information that people who stutter can learn and benefit from.
One area that is different from other clinical books is Section III Number 12: Myths & Mysteries about Stuttering. This is a new section and the authors have gone to great lengths to describe the myths and mysteries related to stuttering. …
Overall, I recommend this book to every speech-language pathologist and graduate student who is working with people who stutter. The sections on assessment and treatment are very thorough, and the authors recommend many new assessment tools and therapy materials that are available today. …”
–Lorelei J. Peirson, MA, Biola University, in Doody’s Reviews (February 2022)

“…This book shows that stuttering is not some indomitable, mythical beast but a penetrable disorder, albeit ‘multi-factorial,’ that has been scrupulously studied for decades.
Through not only presenting the most up-to-date and accurate research on stuttering but also synthesizing it in a cohesive and thought provoking manner, the authors arm the reader with a unique and accessible guide. Contrary to previous editions, …, Ratner and Brundage go beyond strict chronology and reorder chapters to answer the questions ‘people tent to twant answered before others.’ They also add two chapters – one addressing pressing facts about stuttering (Chapter 12) and one on assessment (Chapter 13) – unprecedented in the history of the Handbook. The effect is that clinicians along with those who stutter have direct, easy access to succinct information about the speech disorder.
This edition preserves Oliver Bloodstein’s characteristic ability to convey a working knowledge of stuttering and bequeaths his resolve in the field to the next generation. By guiding the reader through research on stuttering, from old to the new, the Handbook shows how we came to know what we know and imparts a nuanced and motivating understanding of stuttering. In other words, we are dealing with an expansive yet reliable and steady foundation of knowledge rather than a fire hose that people can effectively learn from and in turn practically use to further advance knowledge about stuttering. A book is special when it’s likely to help inspire the very articles that will feature in its next edition.”
–Edward Shvets in The Stuttering Foundation Magazine (Spring 2022)
 

Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
Reviewers
Acknowledgements

Section I. Understanding the Nature of Stuttering

Chapter 1. Defining and Describing Stuttering
Chapter 2. The Demography of Stuttering: Across the Life Span, Families, and Communities
Chapter 3. Early Childhood Disfluency and Stuttering Onset
Chapter 4. Developmental, Medical, Familial, and Educational History of PWS, and the Social and Vocational Impacts of Stuttering
Chapter 5. Theories and Models of Stuttering

Section II. The Quest for Underlying Mechanisms

Chapter 6. Central Neurological Findings
Chapter 7. Motor and Sensory Abilities
Chapter 8. Anticipation, Anxiety, and Stuttering
Chapter 9. Personality and Temperament
Chapter 10. Cognitive and Linguistic Abilities

Section III. Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering

Chapter 11. Conditions Under Which Stuttering Fluctuates
Chapter 12. Myths and Mysteries about Stuttering
Chapter 13. Assessment of Stuttering
Chapter 14. Treatment

References
Index

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