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A New Approach to Stuttering: Diagnosis and Therapy (Speech and Language Disorders) by Zbigniew Tarkowski is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The author presents a new approach to the therapy of stuttering. Instead of accepting stuttering and trying to make it more fluent, he prefers to motivate a patient to effectively battle the condition. This book presents a theoretical basis for such an approach and offers diagnostic tools, including normalized and standardized scales as well as questionnaires for examining patients with stuttering in different age groups. While guest authors review research on the effects of pharmacotherapy, which is regarded as controversial by many, the author focuses on discussing the approach and achievements of Central and Eastern European therapists which have not been heard of in the USA and Western European countries. He supports systemic therapy which affects all the basic stuttering factors, i.e. speech disfluency, logophobia, muscle tension and interpersonal communication in a comprehensive way. Speech disfluency is not regarded as a problem, but merely as an obstacle on the way to accomplish a patient's personal goals. The author presents particular methods for solving the problems of patients with stuttering and considers motivation to therapy important, though it is reduced due to the

Who reads A New Approach to Stuttering: Diagnosis and Therapy (Speech and Language Disorders)?

Author

Zbigniew Tarkowski

Publisher

Nova Biomedical

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781536100143

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Health & Fitness, Psychology