Treatment Efficacy for Stuttering

Current themes in research and theory: recovery without treatment; definition and measurement of stuttering; implications of genetics research for stuttering treatment; on trying to learn from speech-motor control research on stuttering. Treatment procedures and outcomes: current status of the stuttering treatment literature; the fluent speech of children who received treatment for stuttering; developing treatment programmes for preschool children who stutter; assessing the impact of a common treatment for stuttering; toward cost-effective control of stuttering in adults; factors other than speech disfluency that influence the effectiveness of stuttering treatment; extraclinical generalization from stuttering treatments; toward effective treatments for stuttering.