Background The growing range of available treatment options for people who stutter
presents a challenge for clinicians, service managers and commissioners, who need to have …

Much attention has been directed recently toward the problem of measuring occurrences of
stuttering with satisfactory levels of interjudge agreement. This paper reviews the prominent …

Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders, Fifth Edition is designed for graduate
students who are beginning their first in-depth experience in fluency disorders, as well as …

The goal of this book is to call attention to a systematic scientific approach to studying and
treating stuttering via the strategies of operant conditioning, learning theory, and single …

It has been shown that people who stutter can speak with greatly reduced stuttering after
treatments that use variations of Goldiamond's (1965) prolonged-speech (PS). However …

Abstract See Crinion (doi: 10.1093/brain/awy075) for a scientific commentary on this article.
Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting 5% of children, and persisting in 1 …

This research is a long-term follow-up of a previously published, controlled trial on the
effectiveness of 3 stuttering treatments (intensive smooth speech, parenthome smooth …

BACKGROUND: Despite many years of research, there is no certainty regarding the cause
of stuttering. Although numerous interventions have been developed, a broad-based …

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effectiveness of a nonprogrammed,
operant treatment for school-age children who stutter. The treatment was administered by …

Much research and clinical work in speech-language pathology depends on the validity and
reliability of data gathered through the direct observation of human behavior. This paper …