ABSTRACT
Despite decades of research and clinical work in the area of stuttering, it is the perception of many that a gap exists between how researchers and clinicians view the disorder. Many researchers claim that clinicians employ practices with dubious roots to either efficacy or basic research in stuttering; that they are “not up on the literature.” By contrast, it is not unusual to hear clinicians claim that most published literature appears to have little direct relevance to clinical concerns in the treatment of stuttering. This gap in the appreciation of what clinicians and researchers perceive they can offer each other appears to be an ongoing problem in the field of stuttering.
