Ten factors that school clinicians should consider in determining treatment of children who stutter include, among others, increasing clinicians' confidence in treating stuttering, setting long-term and short-term goals, involving parents and teachers in treatment, and determining when the child is ready to be dismissed from treatment. (SW)

This is primarily a book for the classroom teacher, although it will also prove useful to parents, child-guidance workers, physicians, and others who are concerned with the development and training of children with speech handicaps. Contents include "Speech Improvement as an Educational Problem,""Recognizing Speech Disabilities,""The Development…

To describe language development, two longitudinal case studies and a model for studying the patterns of interaction between children and adults are provided. Three groups of children exhibiting developmental speech and language disorders are then presented. First, stuttering children are discussed, with attention given to theory and experimental…