What Everyone Should Know

Title: "What Everyone Should Know About Stuttering"
Author: Sally Bowman
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DESCRIPTION

'What Everyone Should Know About Stuttering," is a 19-page handbook designed to provide the lay public with information about stuttering. The author addresses a variety of topics such as the definition of stuttering, myths regarding stereotypes of stutterers, the history of stuttering, treatment programs, attitudes toward stuttering, characteristics of stuttering, stutterers' reactions to moments of stuttering, situational fears, anticipatory reactions, avoidance techniques, individual differences among stutterers, and incidence.

The handbook Includes Illustrative drawings to enhance the text. It was designed to "help reinforce and validate information that speech clinicians dispense to patients and their families, and to be used by the latter as a handy reference while that patient undergoes treatment procedures."

Handbook, Reviewed: ASHA (1985): 27(1)