Psychological aspects of chronic tonic and clonic stuttering: suggested therapeutic approaches.
A comparison of the personality profiles and intellectual functioning of 12 tonic and 18 clonic stutterers indicated that the groups could be discriminated on measures of verbal IQ, object relations, social isolation, somatization, and cognitive processing. Findings are examined in terms of the impact of type of functioning on maintenance of stuttering, and implications for treatment are discussed.
Feinberg
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Fluency Readiness Program, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago, USA. Afraid2speak@aol.com
Griffin
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Levey
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012934:Social Isolation / Q000523:psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D013070:Speech Therapy; D013342:Stuttering / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D013803:Thematic Apperception Test