ABSTRACT

Stuttering Recovery: Personal and Empirical Perspectives is a highly original and engaging book serving to not only educate readers on topics related to stuttering, but also to stimulate discussion. The author interweaves personal accounts of people who stutter with informational chapters highlighting up-to-date research on recovery-related issues such as therapy, support groups, listener reactions, risk-taking, and dealing with family members and significant others.

Reader-friendly and understandable, this book incorporates various perspectives to teach and illustrate the different aspects of recovery. Chapters are paired with stories presenting all sides of the recovery process -- the humorous and serious, the uplifting and frustrating, the thoughtful and emotional, and everything in-between. The result is a text that is entertaining and instructive.

Stuttering Recovery: Personal and Empirical Perspectives is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, clinicians, speech-language professionals, people who stutter, significant others, and anyone else who has an interest in fluency disorders.

chapter 1|10 pages

What Is Stuttering? What Is Recovery?

chapter 2|5 pages

Eighth-Grade English Class

chapter 3|16 pages

How to Read Research (and Non-Research)

chapter 5|16 pages

Recovery and Therapy

chapter 6|9 pages

The Depo

chapter 7|7 pages

Support Groups

chapter 8|7 pages

The Meeting

chapter 9|8 pages

The Stereotyping of People Who Stutter

chapter 10|9 pages

A Visit From St. Notker

chapter 11|9 pages

Listeners

chapter 12|16 pages

Stories of Listeners

chapter 13|9 pages

Friends, Family, and Significant Others

chapter 14|4 pages

The Family Dinner

chapter 15|7 pages

Self-Improvement Is Worth the Risk

chapter 16|7 pages

The Match of a Lifetime

chapter 17|17 pages

Odds ’n Ends

chapter 18|4 pages

The Bottom Line

chapter 19|11 pages

Questions for Discussion

chapter 20|9 pages

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