| Description |
1 online resource (99 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Understanding health and sickness series |
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Understanding health and sickness series.
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| Contents |
Stuttering defined -- Who stutters? -- The biology of stuttering -- Treatments for stuttering -- Searching for a cure |
| Summary |
Health & sickness -- Consumer Health -- & . Stuttering is an affliction that affects every ethnicity and every culture equally, some sixty million people worldwide. Five percent of children stutter. Typically this debilitating condition emerges when a child is between the ages of two and six. Twenty percent of these children will continue to stutter as adults. Although it is so pervasive, there is great misunderstanding about stuttering. Socially isolating those it strikes, the disorder prevents them from the kind of candid discussions that would help them gain an understanding of it. In turn, s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-95) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Stuttering.
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Stuttering -- physiopathology
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Stuttering -- therapy
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Stuttering
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Hearing & Speech.
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MEDICAL -- Audiology & Speech Pathology.
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Stuttering.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002155417 |
| ISBN |
9781417507924 |
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1417507926 |
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9781604730432 |
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1578065720 |
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1604730439 |
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9781578065721 |
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1578065739 |
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9781578065738 |
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1282484710 |
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9781282484719 |
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9786612484711 |
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6612484713 |
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