This new Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the etiology and development of stuttering and details appropriate approaches to accurate assessment and treatment. A new chapter on related fluency disorders discusses evaluation and treatment of stuttering associated with neurological disease or trauma, psychological disturbance, or mental retardation, and explains how developmental stuttering can be differentiated from these conditions. This edition also features a new chapter on preliminaries to assessment as well as new information on differential diagnosis of stuttering versus other fluency disorders. Appendices include forms for diagnosis and evaluation.

Ch. 1 Introduction to stuttering 3
Ch. 2 Constitutional factors in stuttering 31
Ch. 3 Developmental, environmental, and learning factors 71
Ch. 4 Theories about stuttering 105
Ch. 5 Normal disfluency and the development of stuttering 137
Ch. 6 Preliminaries to assessment 173
Ch. 7 Assessment and diagnosis 217
Ch. 8 Preliminaries to treatment 277
Ch. 9 Treatment of borderline stuttering 293
Ch. 10 Treatment of beginning stuttering 321
Ch. 11 Treatment of intermediate stuttering 349
Ch. 12 Treatment of advanced stuttering 391
Ch. 13 Related disorders of fluency 435