Stuttering Treatment in the New Millennium: Changes in the Traditional Parameters of Clinical Focus

A while back, there was a car commercial that boasted, “This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.” As we enter the new millennium, the same might be said of stuttering: from multiple perspectives, our view of stuttering, stuttering treatment, and appropriate preparation for those who provide stuttering treatment is changing. In this chapter, we discuss some challenges that face our discipline, to set the chapters that follow into current context.