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Speech Disfluencies

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Handbook of Child Behavior Therapy

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Stuttering and cluttering are two prominent types of childhood speech fluency disorders. The disfluencies in cluttering may consist of excessive speed, articulation, phonological and language defects, and lack of awareness (Stansfield, 1988). Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised (DSM-III-R) included cluttering (American Psychiatric Association, 1987), the DSM-IV no longer classifies it as a disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). For this reason, and because of the relative paucity of research on cluttering, this chapter will focus on stuttering.

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    Raymond G. Miltenberger

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Miltenberger, R.G., Woods, D.W. (1998). Speech Disfluencies. In: Watson, T.S., Gresham, F.M. (eds) Handbook of Child Behavior Therapy. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5323-6_7

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