If Your Child Stutters: A Guide for Parents

by Jane H. Fraser, Barry Guitar

This all new 7th edition is written for parents who are concerned about the speech of their young child. The goals of this book are to help you distinguish between normal disfluencies and stuttering and to enable you to begin working with your child with a better understanding of the problem. New Risk Factors Chart helps the reader determine whether or not stuttering is likely to become a serious problem. An authoritative, understandable book for parents, it includes what to expect in an evaluation and information on how to obtain insurance reimbursement for stuttering treatment. It is often used as a supplement to clinical treatment. This book represents the thoughts of many experts in the field of stuttering, all of whom attach great importance to early intervention in prevention of stuttering in the young child. Other contributors: Drs. Edward G. Conture, Carl Dell, David Prins, Harold Starbuck, C. Woodruff Starkweather, Charles Van Riper, and Dean Williams. 7th edition 2007. 64 pages

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Meeshy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This has some really good information if you have a stuttering child. The first half is to determine whether your child is a clinical stutterer or will grow out of it. The second half is for you to reference techniques to help your stuttering child. Really, the short informational hand-out is to let you know that it is okay that your child has some mixups in his speech and that you should seek assistance from a professional. It was given to me by my son's speech therapist and it has helped me cope with something I thought was my fault.