The hypothesis that a person stutters because he believes in the difficulty of speech, anticipates failure, and struggles to avoid it, is said to be consistent with experimental findings on the metronome effect, the adaptation effect, the effects of white noise and delayed auditory feedback, and operant control of stuttering. (Author/GW)

Designed for students, clinicians, and research workers in speech pathology, the text attempts to reiterate and discuss research into the etiology, incidence, and treatment of stuttering. Areas of consideration are the symptomatology of stuttering, current theories of the origin of stuttering, its incidence, the personality and physical factors in…