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Rarely does a textbook transcend the ordinary to be universally considered a “classic”. The esteemed A Handbook on Stuttering, now in its 6th edition, continues to be the only existing work that offers a comprehensive review of evidence-based knowledge about the etiology, nature, and treatment of stuttering. Since the last edition was published there have been numerous important advances in research on stuttering, particularly with regard to brain research and language development. This edition captures these new developments, without losing the historical information that makes it so unique.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 3 reviews)

Good for older research

This book will make you an expert on stuttering research from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Some later research is covered, but much is missed. This might sound like a problem, but there was much fascinating, now ignored research done in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Digging through this book you'll find some real surprises, e.g., two studies that unsuccessfully attempted to "distract" stutterers into fluency, or a study finding that stutterers are fluent when crawling. Reading this book makes you realize how the Ph.D.s ignored the research when touting their theories of stuttering (and that hasn't changed). But no one can accuse Bloodstein of ignoring research, at least before 1960.
September 18, 2005

The only book on stuttering--all others are pretenders!

Dr. Bloodstein's work will endure long after the current "how to make stuttering disappear" books via sleight of hand or "secret techniques" have been "swept away by the reality of their utter failure". Not an easy read, but an essential one for any clinician, scientist, or person who stutters. A complete reading will make one well-informed as to the nature of stuttering and decades of research findings- plus Bloodstein's cogent synthesis and interpretations. The critique on therapy in the back of the book is compelling, but all too often ignored.
August 14, 2000

Authoritative but dry as a bone

This is probably the most important book on stuttering in print today. It is also one of the driest volumes in speech-language pathology I have ever read. Will tell you more about stuttering than you may want to know. Significantly, the material on treatment covers only 50 pages out of 600, so this is not the book you want to spend your money on if you are a speech therapist looking for treatment material. This is more of an overview of every scrap of research done on the subject since day one. Touches on every study ever done on the subject. Difficult reading because of its very dry, academic nature. Reads like one long journal article. ZZzzzzzz
February 02, 1999

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