The Routledge International Handbook of Stuttering

Preface - Peter Howell and Max Gattie

Part 1: Perspectives on Stuttering

1.       Stuttering in Cultural Contexts - Hamid Karimi

2.       Disability and Neurodiversity: Impairment Effects for Stuttering - Max Gattie

3.       Clinical characterization of diagnostic and statistical perspectives on stuttering - Roaa Alsulaiman & Zhixing Yang

Part 2: Assessment of Stuttering

4.        Psychometric assessment in stuttering research - Phil Reed

5.       Comprehensive, Client-Centered Assessment of Stuttering: Goals, Procedures, and Outcomes - Ken Logan

6.       Types of stutters, the speech that they are targeted on and forms that stuttered events take - Peter Howell

Part 3: Biological Bases of Stuttering       

7.       Risk factors in childhood onset stuttering: research results and methodological challenges - Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross

8.       Genetics of Stuttering - Angela Morgan and Sarah Horton

9.       Genetic factors, cellular trafficking deficits, and the role of neuroglia in stuttering - Dennis Drayna

10.   The Neural Bases of Stuttering in Children: Advances in Neuroscience Research - Soo-Eun Chang & Ho Ming Chow

11.   Acquired stuttering: recent developments - Catherine Theys & Eloïse Fairbairn

12.   Adult brain studies with People who Stutter: On cycles, hypes, chance findings and paradoxical effectiveness - Anna Elfers and Martin Sommer

Part 4: Systems Control Theory for Stuttering     

13.   Speech Motor Control and its Role in Stuttering - Ian Howard and Peter Howell

14.   Altered Auditory Feedback in Stuttering - Liam Barrett

15.   Subcortical Sensorimotor Activity in Stuttered and Non-Stuttered Speech - Max Gattie

Part 5: Assistive technologies    

16.   Evaluating Digital Interventions in Stuttering Therapy - Fjorda Kazazi

17.   Towards Intelligent Machine Learning Models of Stuttered Speech - Liam Barrett and Kevin Tang

Part 6: Treatments for Stuttering             

18.   Treatment Efficacy unlocks Sensorimotor Potential for Stable Speech Production Strategies in Adults who Stutter - Torrey Loucks, Daniel Aalto and Jessica A. Harasym

19.   Stuttering management: Key considerations for clinical decision-making - Elaina Kefalioanos, Linn Gutt and Georgie Johnson

20.   Internalising symptoms in people who stutter - Ria Bernard and Hilde Hofslundsengen

21.   Behavioural Inhibition, Attentional Bias, and Executive Function: A Holistic Approach to Supporting Children Who Stutter - Victoria Tumanova and Dahye Choi

Epilogue - Peter Howell and Max Gattie

Biography

Peter Howell is Professor of Experimental Psychology at University College, London, U.K. He has published widely in the field of fluency disorders.

Max Gattie is a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University, Chicago., U.S.A. He is a person who stutters, and completed his Ph.D. research into stuttering at the University of Manchester, U.K.