Understanding Stuttering [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454744403321
• Autore: Lavid Nathan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-48471-0; 9786612484711; 1-60473-043-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (110 p.)
• Collana: Understanding Health & Sickness
• Disciplina: 616.8554
• Soggetti: Medicine; Speech disorders; Stuttering; Speech Disorders; Language Disorders; Communication Disorders; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Nervous System Diseases; Diseases; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Stuttering Defined; 2. Who Stutters?; 3. The Biology of Stuttering; 4. Treatments for Stuttering; 5. Searching for a Cure; Appendix A: How to Converse with Children and Adults Who Stutter; Appendix B: Sources of Additional Information; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Health & sickness -- Consumer Health -->. Stuttering is an affliction that affects every ethnicity and every culture equally, some sixty million people worldwide. Five percent of children stutter. Typically this ; debilitating condition emerges when a child is between the ages of two and six. Twenty percent of these children will continue to stutter as adults. Although it is so pervasive, there is great misunderstanding about stuttering. Socially isolating those it strikes, the disorder prevents them from the kind of candid discussions that would help them gain an understanding of it. In turn, s