A review of the research evidence suggests that labelling the nonfluent child as a stutterer may not always be warranted. Premature labelling and its influence upon the child's self-concept and progressive socialization were evaluated. (Editor/RK)

Forty-three undergraduates and twelve graduate students evaluated their own outer and inner beauty before and immediately after a pseudostuttering assignment. Both groups had significant downshifts in both parameters of beauty. Pseudostuttering assignments were found to be an effective means for allowing student clinicians to experience negative…

This volume contains six papers presented by speech therapists at a conference dealing with principles and procedures that are crucial to transfer and maintenance of the modification of stuttering and the production of increased fluency. E. G. Conture, in "The General Problem of Change," addresses some of the general issues which affect…

A survey of research and experimentation in the field of stuttering is presented for those engaged in teaching or studying speech therapy, speech pathology, and psychology. The background to stuttering is discussed as are definition, diagnosis, and measurement. The perceptual, organic, perseverative, expectancy, diagnosogenic, and conflict…

Directed to the stammerer, the text provides a course of correction based on normal speaking principles. Speech re-education is described in terms of the following: the attitude needed; faults of breathing, vocalization, and articulation; discovery of the natural voice; pace; breathing; volume and resonance; mental conception; and corrective…