Recent advances in the treatment of stuttering: A theoretical perspective

The reader will learn about: (1) two hypothesized methods of preparing utterance motor plans-speech concatenation and speech construction; (2) how behavioral treatment programs make use of speech construction to promote fluency in persons who stutter; (3) why therapy procedures based on cognitively driven speech construction produce faster and superior results than those based on motorically driven speech construction; and (4) the empirical evidence that suggests that speech concatenation is the source of stuttering.