Stuttering A Short History of a Curious Disorder

Subjects:

• Education » Special Education
• Sociology » Physical/Mental Disabilities
• Psychology » Physiological Psychology

Reviews:

• Enlightening and carefully documented. It is well written and would be enjoyable to a student, practitioner, or person who stutters.
  —Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists
• This is a book that clinicians who deal with stuttering will find interesting and provocative to read.
  —ASHA Leader

• Endorsement From Nancy J. Cox
  Assistant Professor of Medicine, The University of Chicago: As a geneticist, I value the perspective Dr. Wingate's historical treatment of stuttering provides.... [His] ability to interweave historical information with expert commentary on the local perspectives of time and place, as well as his no-nonsense evaluations of the contributions that the theories of the time make to our understanding of the nature of stuttering will be appreciated by both lay and scientific readers.
• Endorsement From Maryann Peins, Professor Emerita of Speech Pathology
  Douglass College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: [A] thoughtful and scholarly presentation of an important topic. This impressive book is a welcome contribution to the current state of knowledge about stuttering.
• Endorsement From Curtis E. Hamre
  Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University: [Wingate's] unrelenting quest for truth on the nature of stuttering takes the reader on a journey from ancient philosophic to modern scientific efforts to explain humanness, speech, and defects thereof.....While the book is enjoyable reading for a broad audience, it is especially enlightening for clinicians, professors, and other students of this 'curious disorder.'
• Endorsement From Robert E. Potter, Professor
  Department of Applied Behavioral and Communication Disorders
  University of Oregon: The book is totally an enjoyable read stylistically and a solid contribution to the historical tracings and current assertions about intervention strategies which should prove useful to academians, clinicians, and bearers of one of the most enigmatic disorders of communication.
• Endorsement From Colleen B. Wilcox
  Superintendent of Schools
  Santa Clara County, California: Perhaps the best known thinker around the intricacies of stuttering, Marcel Wingate has condensed centuries of information on stuttering into an amazingly readable, often surprising, and always enjoyable book.

Table of Contents:

• Tables and Figures
• Preface
• Introduction
• Long Ago and Far Away
• Eoanthropus to Anno Domini
• Anno Domini to 1700
• The Significant Interim
• 1700-1900
• Early Twentieth Century
• "Modern Times"
• A Decade of Formative Transition
• A View with Room
• Still Wandering
• The Legacy
• Other Dimensions
• Denouement
• Synopsis and Sequelae
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index