Therapy of Stuttering: Preschool Through Adolescence (Orientation to Therapy for Preschool, Early School and Adolescent School Children)

Bringing 35 years experience to this very complex and demanding field, Richard Ham's Therapy of Stuttering: Preschool Through Adolescence serves as the perfect orientation to therapy among stuttering children and as an idea reference for professionals. This lively, informative text presents some of the approaches currently involved in therapy and distributes them across three age groups: preschool, early school, and adolescent school children. Clinicians will find this unique volume full of useful information that can greatly aid them in their decision making. Included is a review of the various theories of stuttering and an author's critique of these theories. A detailed look at various evaluation points possibilities so that measures needed or points to be considered can be selected as they apply. A brief discussion of preparation for and planning of therapy is included. And an in-depth examination of different procedures and methods of therapy where important topics, such as the controversies between fluency reinforcement theory and symptom modification theory, are thoroughly discussed.