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 BOOK: NO MIRACLE CURES: A MULTIFACTORAL GUIDE TO STUTTERING THERAPY by Thomas David Kehoe. This book looks at five factors that may cause stammering: genetics, two neurological abnormalities, responses to stress and speech-related fears and anxieties, and suggests treatments for them. University College Press, 2006. Review (which links to where the book can also be read online).
BOOK: STUTTER, by Marc Shell. "Explores the phenomenon of stuttering from its practical and physical aspects to its historical profile to its existential implications." 2006.
BOOK: STUTTERING RECOVERY: PERSONAL AND EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES, by Dale F. Williams. This is a general survey of problems in stammering recovery which includes personal accounts of stammering problems. 2006. Review.
BOOK: ODYSSEY OF THE VOICE, by Jean Abitbol. A general history of the human voice for both the general and specialist student. Plural Publishing, 2006.
BOOK: MASTERING BLOCKING AND STUTTERING: A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO ACHIEVING FLUENCY by Bob G Bodenhamer. Based on concepts of NLP/Neuro-Semantics. Crown House Publishing, 2004. Reviews.
BOOK: BEYOND STAMMERING by Dave McGuire. Details the McGuire programme which includes a combination of physical techniques and mental strategies designed to deal with the fear of stammering and how to develop an assertive attitude to the problem. Souvenir Press 2003. Reviews.
BOOK: HOW TO CONQUER YOUR FEARS OF SPEAKING BEFORE PEOPLE, by John C. Harrison. 397 page A4 size manual - "a comprehensive program designed especially for people who stutter". 2004. Reviews.
BOOK: UNDERSTANDING STUTTERING, by Nathan Lavid. Short book which aims to present stuttering from a medical point of view and discuss effective treatment in layman terms. University Press of Mississipi, 2003.
BOOK: ADVICE TO THOSE WHO STUTTER, Stuttering Foundation of America. Ideas and advice by 28 speech pathologists who have all had a stutter. 1998. Review.
BOOK: COPING WITH STAMMERING by Dr Trudy Stewart and Jackie Turnbull, specialist speech and language therapists, Leeds, England. ISBN 0-85969-758-4. This is a self-help book for anyone who has a stammer, and who has questions and concerns and things they'd like to change and cope with more confidently. This book is also available for sale in the shop at £7.99 inclusive of UK postage and packing. Review
BOOK: THE STAMMERING HANDBOOK - a definitive guide to coping with a stammer. This book was written by Jenny Lewis, and checked, corrected and endorsed by ourselves.
BOOK: THE STUTTERER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE by Nicholas Tunbridge, Addison-Wesley, Sydney. ISBN 0201 44356 2. Review.
BOOK: STUTTERING - THE SEARCH FOR A CAUSE AND CURE by Oliver Bloodstein (Allyn and Bacon, Boston 1993) Oliver Bloodstein, author of the authoritative Handbook on Stuttering, has produced this much shorter, and rather excellent, layman's guide.
BOOK: THE NATURE OF STUTTERING, by Charles Van Riper. Waveland Press 1992. Seeks to define stuttering and its nature and development.
BOOK: LET'S TALK ABOUT STAMMERING by Renée Byrne. Published by the British Stammering Association. Revised edition 1991. Review.
BOOK: THERAPY FOR STUTTERERS. Produced by the Stuttering Foundation of America as No.10.
BOOK: SELF THERAPY FOR THE STUTTERER. Published by the Stuttering Foundation of America as No.12. Written by Malcolm Fraser.
BOOK: STAMMERING: PRACTICAL HELP FOR ALL AGES by Ann Irwin. Penguin 1980
BOOK: UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING STUTTERING by William D. Parry. A comprehensive new approach based on the Valsalva Hypothesis. 1992 (1st ed.) (William Parry's website and www.valsalva.org)
BOOK: STAMMERING - IT'S ANALYSIS, CAUSES AND CURE by R. Macdonald Ladell. 1958 (1940)
BOOK: STAMMERING: ITS NATURE, HISTORY, CAUSES AND CURES, by David Compton. Review.
BOOK: OVERCOMING STAMMERING by R Macdonald Ladell. Thomas 1977
BOOK: STAMMERING CORRECTION SIMPLIFIED by Ronald Muirden. "(Stammering) is only a bad physical habit whereby the speaking machine is awkwardly managed."
BOOK: STUTTER NO MORE. A simple technique for which the author claims a 93.4% success rate. By Martin F. Schwartz. Simon & Schuster 1991. Review.
BOOK: STUTTERING SOLVED, by Martin F. Schwartz. Heinemann 1976.
8 BOOKS: THE EUMETRO TREATMENT OF STAMMERING, by William Wareing. Book 1. health and habits; 2. breathing and mental tranquility; 3. breathing and voice and role played by the lips and tongue; 4. vocal gymnastics and the nerves; 5. mental stocktaking and consonants; 6. consonants and combined consonants; 7. reading and recitation; 8. thought control and the future. (Count the 8 books as one item.)
BOOK: FREEDOM FROM YOUR STAMMER, by Ulrich D. Bocks. 1966. Ulrich Bocks' own ideas on how a stammerer can achieve freedom from their stammer.
BOOK: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON STUTTERING, edited by Dominick A. Barbara. Charles C Thomas 1965. In short, simple, concise questions and answers the book is an attempt to bring together most of the important facts and theories about stuttering.
BOOK: STUTTERING AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, by Wendell Johnson. Dolphin (USA) 1961. How parents and teachers can help children and how adults can help themselves.
BOOK: STAMMERING AND ITS PERMANENT CURE by Alfred Appelt. Methuen, 1920
BOOK: THE STAMMERER'S CHOICE, by John Rumsey, M.A., former Consulting Speech Therapist to Guy's Hospital. 1950. A comparative survey of speech therapy.
Biography
BOOK: MY FAMILY MY STAMMER AND ME, by Rosemary Fisher. "The History of the Rise and Fall of a Stammer." Self-published. 2005.
BOOK: THE HAUNTING OF A FAVOURITE SON, by Noel Hodson. An inspiring and hopeful tale of a man crippled by an acute shyness known as social-phobia. Britannica, 2003.
BOOK: GARETH GATES - RIGHT FROM THE START (co-author Sian Solanas, Virgin Books). "This is my life so far from my perspective - from the moment i was born to becoming a No.1 popstar." Review.
BOOK: THE MAN WHO LOST HIS LANGUAGE, by Sheila Hale. Penquin Books 2002. Biographical account from Sheila Hale of her husband John Hale's stroke and her determination to find out what happened and how his life might be brought back to normal.
BOOK: LIVING WITH STUTTERING, edited by Kenneth St Louis. Popular 2001. A book for and about people who stutter as well as those who seek to understand and help them. Review.
BOOK: THE LIFE OF KENNETH TYNAN, by Kathleen Tynan. Methuen 1988. Biography of Kenneth Tynan written by his wife Kathleen Tynan. Moving personal story of one of the finest dramatic critics of the Twentieth Century.
BOOK: THE STRAIGHT MAN - MY LIFE IN COMEDY, by Nicholas Parsons (who overcame his stammer). Weidenfeldt and Nicholson. 1994.
BOOK: A RIGHT ROYAL BASTARD by Sarah Miles. Macmillan 1993. Actress who stammered in childhood. Hardback 358 pages.
BOOKLET: STUTTERING: A GIFT REJECTED. One man's victory over speech blocks, by M.G. Bradley. 1991. Review.
BOOK: A TASTE OF FREEDOM. Essays on life and stuttering, by Victoria Benson. National Stuttering Project of America 1990.
BOOK: CHANGING FACES by James Partridge. James Partridge shows how facial disfigurement is not a disability but a challenge that can be successfully overcome by developing self assertiveness and self confidence. Changing Faces 1990
BOOK: THE FACE OF ALL THE WORLD IS CHANGED: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STUDY WITH THE FOCUS ON STUTTERING, by Ida E. Whitten. Autobiography of Ida Whitten and how she overcame her stammer. Scott Zoller 1989.
BOOK: JUST A COUNTRY SOLICITOR by T Wilson Goad (Dalesman Books, Lancaster 1989) T Wilson Goad has been 'just a [stammering] country solicitor' for forty years. In this book he recalls cases from his early days in practice just after the war. Set in the Cumbria landscape, some of these stories have inspired scenes in the Granada TV series "Capstick's Law".
BOOK: NOT GOOD AT TALKING by Tim Newark. Barton 1985. A study of famous people with a stammer.
BOOK: TANGLED TONGUE, by Jock Carlisle. Biographical account of the inner world of a person who stammers. USA 1985.
BOOK: MY FATHER, DR VAN by Charles Van Riper (John M Longyear Research Library, 1982) Charles Van Riper's biography of his father's life and work as a physician in Northern Michigan.A fascinating insight into the family history of one of the godfathers of modern speech and language therapy - and a real catch for the BSA library as it has been out of print for a long time.
BOOK: A STUTTERERS STORY by Frederick P. Murray. IPP USA 1980
BOOK: THE P-P-PENGUIN PATRICK CAMPBELL selected by Kaye Webb (Penguin Books, 1966). Not so much a Penguin - more a rocking horse canter round the unlimited mind of an Irish peer - one of the last of a great herd of humorists that formerly roamed the paper plains of Fleet Street.
BOOK: GOOD PEOPLE - THE BEST OF SPEAKING OUT - from the magazine of the Canadian Speak Easy organisation, an anthology of short articles and stories. Edited by Mike Hughes. 284 pages. Review.
BOOK: TO SAY WHAT IS OURS. the best of 13 years of 'Letting Go' the Newsletter of the National Stuttering Project of America. Edited by John Ahlbach and Vicki Benson. 1994
BOOK: TO SAY WHAT IS OURS. the best of ten years of 'Letting Go' the Newsletter of the National Stuttering Project of America. Edited by John Ahlbach. 1990.
Fiction
BOOK: BLACK SWAN GREEN, by David Mitchell. In a dank village in Worcestershire Jason Taylor, a 13-year-old stammerer and poet, anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on earth. But he is in for a surprise. 2006. Review.
BOOK: DEAD LANGUAGES. A novel by David Shields. Knopf. 1989. The story of a young man who stutters so badly that he worships words. Reviews.
BOOK: I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves (Penguin Books, London) Into the autobiography of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culmintae in the deified insanity of Caligula. One of the foremost historical novels of our times, and the basis to the BBC series with Derek Jacobi portraying Claudius.
BOOK: CLAUDIUS THE GOD by Robert Graves (Penguin Books, London). In the sequel to I Claudius, a Republican Emperor writes the inside story of his reign. Men classed Claudius as a pitiful fool on account of his stammer, but the reign he describes is far from folly. Reluctantly launched into the purple, he emerges as a man who erred on the side of good nature and credibility, repairing the damage of Caligula's reign.
BOOK: THE TURN OF THE SCREW, by Henry James. Penguin 1994. Subtle and unconventional ghost story concentrating on the psychological rather than the actual.
Link to children's fiction.
History
BOOK: STUTTERING - A SHORT HISTORY OF A CURIOUS DISORDER by Marcel E Wingate (Greenwood Publishing, Westport CT, 1997).
BOOK: KNOTTED TONGUES by Benson Bobrick. Stuttering in history and the quest for a cure. Review.
Reference
(Not to be taken out, but can be consulted in the BSA office by appointment - telephone 020-8983 1003 or email dv@stammering.org)
BOOK: THE 2002 OFFICIAL PATIENT'S SOURCEBOOK ON STUTTERING, edited by James N. Parker & Philip M. Parker. Icon Health Publications 2002. Sourcebook for non professionals, physicians and healthcare providers wishing to pursue self-directed research. Background information, glossaries, references and directory information.
REPORT: EUROPEAN IDEAS EXCHANGE: APPROACH TO DISABILITY IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES BASED ON STUTTERING THERAPY ACHIEVEMENTS, Polish Stuttering Association. A report based upon the Conference held in Cracow 16th-19th November 2000.
RING BINDER: STUTTERING AWARENESS, European League of Stuttering Associations. Papers presented at an ESLA Seminar in Austria 1999 relating to the awareness of stuttering. Includes a paper by Norbert Lieckfeldt of the BSA.
BOOK: SOCIAL SERVICES YEAR BOOK 1999, Financial Times Management. Pitman Publishing. Guide to social services provision in the UK in 1999. Detailed information covering central and local government social services, education and health, non-statutory social welfare provision, voluntary, charitable and private organisations.
BOOK: DIRECTORY OF ADVOCACY AND INTERPRETING SERVICES IN EAST LONDON, East London and the City Health Action Zone.
REPORT: REPORT ON THE ELSA YOUTH MEETING, NIJMEGEN, NETHERLANDS 19-26 JULY 1997 compiled by Anita Blom and Edwin J Farr, European League of Stuttering Associations. Themes discussed include alternative communication through art, sign language and mime. Stuttering is described in brief, the formation of ELSA and its aims and objectives.
REPORT: REPORT ON THE ELSA YOUTH MEETING, LINKOPING, SWEDEN 26-29TH JULY, 1995, European League of Stuttering Associations. Themes discussed within the report describe the nature of stuttering in brief, the national associations of Europe, the formation of ELSA and its aims and objectives.
A4 BOOKLET: LIVING WITH COMMUNICATION IMPAIRMENT, Department of Clinical Communications Studies. Study commissioned by the Communications Forum focusing on communication impairment. The sample consisted of men and women with various impairments including stammering, autism, dysphasia, dyslexia, laryngectomy and hearing and visual impairment.
PAPER: THE GERMAN STUTTERERS SELF HELP ASSOCIATION AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE PREVENTION OF STUTTERING, by Oranna Christmann. Paper presented at the first IFA Congress in Munchen relating to the German Self Help Association (Bundesvereinigung Stotterer-Selbshilfe).
PAPERS & CD ROM: LET THE WORDS FLOW WITH DR FLUENCY, by Speech Therapy Systems Ltd. Computer based fluency program. See article on Dr Fluency software. A demonstration copy of Dr Fluency is installed at our office. Any speech and language therapist or BSA member wishing to try the software for themselves is welcome to use our facilities. Please call 020-8983 1003 to make an appointment.
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