Blocks and Repetitions in Stuttering and its Treatment

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Cardell, Elizabeth A
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2010
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The exceedingly complex disorder of stuttering has a long history of capturing public fascination and media attention. Quite regularly, we are confronted with television segments and printed articles that proclaim a “new cure for stuttering”. Some of these claims represent media over-exaggeration of good evidence-based treatments, but other claims are, simply, untrue. Furthermore, one only has to Google “stuttering treatment” to find a plethora of claims for miracle treatments. The reality is that stuttering appears to be tractable for many young pre-school aged children (e.g., through the Lidcombe Program; Onslow, Packman, & Harrison, 2003). However, once a person reaches older childhood, sadly, there is no one miracle treatment for stuttering and claims for “cures” become ethically questionable. Stuttering is not a unitary disorder and it is this heterogeneity amongst the genetic, neural, biochemical, cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences that makes it unlikely that a one-shoe-fits-all approach to treatment will ever emerge. It is important that the reader approaches Stuttering with this context in mind.

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International Journal of Disability, Development and Education

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57

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2

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Education systems

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Cardell, EA, Blocks and Repetitions in Stuttering and its Treatment, International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2010, 57 (2), pp. 225-232

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