Full Description
This comprehensive volume showcases cutting-edge research on stuttering from a wide range of perspectives including neuroscience, genetics, epidemiology, speech-motor control, language effects, machine learning, disability studies, treatment options and assessment. Featuring the work of a diverse range of specialist authors from around the globe, the book discusses psychological, neuroscientific and medical aspects of stuttering.
Several core topics are introduced by tutorial chapters written by specialists. These explain modern approaches in a way that is accessible to non-specialists, sometimes introducing developments not yet applied to stuttering research that have the potential to impact future work on stuttering. Tutorial chapters are followed by content chapters digging deeper into the topic, and highlighting a range of up-to-date research in the field. The book also features discussions of neuroplasticity in people who stutter, and explores a range of assistive technologies including virtual reality and mobile apps.
The Routledge International Handbook of Stuttering will be essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of fluency disorders, speech and language pathology, communication studies and applied linguistics.
Contents
Preface - Peter Howell and Max Gattie
Part 1: Perspectives on Stuttering
1. Stuttering in Cultural Contexts - Hamid Karimi
2. Disability and Neurodiversity: Impairment Effects for Stuttering - Max Gattie
3. Clinical characterization of diagnostic and statistical perspectives on stuttering - Roaa Alsulaiman & Zhixing Yang
Part 2: Assessment of Stuttering
4. Psychometric assessment in stuttering research - Phil Reed
5. Comprehensive, Client-Centered Assessment of Stuttering: Goals, Procedures, and Outcomes - Ken Logan
6. Types of stutters, the speech that they are targeted on and forms that stuttered events take - Peter Howell
Part 3: Biological Bases of Stuttering
7. Risk factors in childhood onset stuttering: research results and methodological challenges - Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross
8. Genetics of Stuttering - Angela Morgan and Sarah Horton
9. Genetic factors, cellular trafficking deficits, and the role of neuroglia in stuttering - Dennis Drayna
10. The Neural Bases of Stuttering in Children: Advances in Neuroscience Research - Soo-Eun Chang & Ho Ming Chow
11. Acquired stuttering: recent developments - Catherine Theys & Eloïse Fairbairn
12. Adult brain studies with People who Stutter: On cycles, hypes, chance findings and paradoxical effectiveness - Anna Elfers and Martin Sommer
Part 4: Systems Control Theory for Stuttering
13. Speech Motor Control and its Role in Stuttering - Ian Howard and Peter Howell
14. Altered Auditory Feedback in Stuttering - Liam Barrett
15. Subcortical Sensorimotor Activity in Stuttered and Non-Stuttered Speech - Max Gattie
Part 5: Assistive technologies
16. Evaluating Digital Interventions in Stuttering Therapy - Fjorda Kazazi
17. Towards Intelligent Machine Learning Models of Stuttered Speech - Liam Barrett and Kevin Tang
Part 6: Treatments for Stuttering
18. Treatment Efficacy unlocks Sensorimotor Potential for Stable Speech Production Strategies in Adults who Stutter - Torrey Loucks, Daniel Aalto and Jessica A. Harasym
19. Stuttering management: Key considerations for clinical decision-making - Elaina Kefalioanos, Linn Gutt and Georgie Johnson
20. Internalising symptoms in people who stutter - Ria Bernard and Hilde Hofslundsengen
21. Behavioural Inhibition, Attentional Bias, and Executive Function: A Holistic Approach to Supporting Children Who Stutter - Victoria Tumanova and Dahye Choi
Epilogue - Peter Howell and Max Gattie
