Journal Reviews

Don’t be too apologetic: disclosing communication difficulties

2 March 2022 | | Speech and Language Therapy | cross-cultural, self-disclosure, stereotype threat, stigma, stuttering

People who stutter are frequently considered less intelligent or less confident, and are often discriminated against. These negative perceptions have been found to differ slightly across different cultural groups. For Hebrew speakers in Israel, having a stutter can have a...

SpeechEasy® for stuttering

1 May 2017 | | altered auditory feedback, stuttering, therapy

In this article, the authors describe their experiences with an altered auditory feedback (AAF) device: SpeechEasy® during a random clinical trial. AAF has been reported in other laboratory studies to reduce stuttering events without influencing the rate, intensity or frequency...

Efficacy of interventions for stuttering: literature review

1 January 2016 | | clinical effectiveness, stammering, stuttering, systematic review

This is the first part of a two-article review of the efficacy of different modalities of treatments used for treatment of stuttering / stammering. In this article, the authors describe their efforts to identify and quantify evidence on various interventions...