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Poetry. In Shiela Murphy's poetry an insistent fluency propels the ear and mind through highly focused, musical creations that evidence the infinite capacity of language. The reader is drawn into a swirl of simultaneously careful and serendipitous craft. "I always return to Murphy's ability to stand the quotidian on its head. This is what enables her poetry to perform so brilliantly. There is no privileging of the hermetic or obscure, but Murphy manages to preserve oblique angles of approach that allow varied readings of any poem"-John Tritica. ... Read more

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THIS 104 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Stammering: Its Cause and Cure, by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417913770. ... Read more

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Not a good book at all, more like paying for a brochure.
This book gives you some background on stammering/stuttering but offers no cure or advice on how to cure.It's pretty much a brochure for his in-person course at some hospital.The writers style is weird at best with repeating the same type of stories over and over and over again just to fill pages.I hope you have a better time with this book then I did. ... Read more

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The majority of adolescent stutters have a long history of dysfluency and as they approach the final years of their schooling they may become apprehensive about their future, particulary in relation to further education, career options, job interviews etc. The treatment of this age group is further complicated by the experience of adolescence itself, and the problems presented by this group are very different to those posed by young children or adults who stutter.

This book presents a Communication Skills Approach to the treatment of adolescent stuttering which has been developed over many years of clinical experience. ... Read more

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The last five to ten years have shown a remarkable increase in research which tries to uncover the dynamics of speech motor processes behind fluent and dysfluent speech. This book presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of recent developments and future directions in theory and research in speech motor control and physiological mechanisms in stuttering. Leading authorities present and discuss the main theories of speech motor control in speech and stuttering, i.e. action theory, programming models, and the multilevel control model. The broad scope of recent developments in research in speech motor coordination using simultaneous measurements is described. New methods in recording and processing speech motor processes and the acoustical signal are presented in more detail (i.e. brain electrical mapping technique, X-ray micro beam pellet tracking technique, and procedures in acoustical analysis). Much attention is devoted to progress in methodological approaches by tutorial papers on the relationship between acoustical measures, physiological parameters and chapters on the methodological aspects of simultaneous measurements. The problems in studying young stutterers's speech production are also discussed at length. ... Read more

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Stuttering has long been regarded as one of the most puzzling human phenomena. Owing to our limited knowledge of its apparently complex nature, it has been difficult to apply readily what is known about other forms of behavioural disorder in order to advance our understanding and treatment of stuttering. However, this book asserts that relatively recent applications of the concepts of neuropsychology to dyslexia, a comparable communication disorder, offer reasonable and functional insights into the development of stuttering behaviours. The primary objectives of this book are to provide rational views on the neuropsychologic and neurophysiologic bases for: the stutterer's repeated occurrences of their stuttering behaviours; the stubborn resistance of these behaviours to traditional, past, and current therapy methods; and the need for clinic programmes to utilize practical psycho-social means for implementing the neuropsychological approach in order to obtain more consistent beneficial therapy results. ... Read more

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This book should be of interest to undergraduates of speech language therapy and phonetic study. ... Read more