Stuttering: Science, Therapy & Practice

By Thomas David Kehoe

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965718107
• ISBN13: 9780965718103
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Casa Futura Technologies
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 4.8"

Customer Reviews

a reference work

The front cover of this book describes itself as the "most complete book about stuttering", and in one sense that is a correct assessment. Thomas Kehoe has pulled together an enormous amount of research about stuttering and put it into a 300 page book. This is the book's greatest strength, but it can also be a weakness. The reader should know what he is reading this book for and what he hopes to get out of it so he knows what to expect.The book is broken up into three sections: Science, Therapy, and Practice, and the focus of each section is how each relates to stuttering and stuttering therapy. The book follows the idea of "the more you know, the better off you are" and with that in mind Thomas Kehoe collects all the research he can find about stuttering, breaks it out into organized sections and drops it all in the book. Kehoe does not draw conclusions from any of the research (though he does say what worked for him and what didn't). Kehoe takes a subject and shows all of the research on it, even if one bit of research disputes what is said by another. This is good because we can see how there are no pat answers in regards to stuttering and we need to figure out what will work best for each individual stutterer, but it also becomes frustrating because of the sheer volume of information contained in this book without a conclusion being drawn. The reader is left to fend for himself to try to figure out what he wants to do and how to go about it. The greatest benefit of this book, I believe, is as a reference work. Kehoe references many other books on stuttering as well as internet sites and places to go to work through stuttering. There is a value in the book, but please do not go into this book expecting a direct answer on how to work on your stuttering.