Working with People Who Stutter: A Lifespan Approach

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Therapy for Stuttering presents a comprehensive, eclectic approach to stuttering intervention beginning with a multifactorial model and clear guidelines for assessment of the problem. Key components of therapy programs are presented in an accessible, outline format for ready use in the clinic with children, adolescents, and adults. The authors stress the need to tailor therapy programs to individuals given all the factors that affect their communicative needs and the extent to which stuttering interferes with communication. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate level courses on stuttering.

Do You Stutter: Straight Talk for Teens (VHS Videocassette)

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Do You Stutter: Straight Talk for Teens (VHS Videocassette)

Manufacturer: Stuttering Foundation of America
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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An excellent resource for teens and adults, their families, teachers, physicians, and speech-languate pathologists. Certain to further the understanding of stuttering and what can be done to help, this video provides information about: what stuttering is; concerns and feelings associated with stuttering; ways to help yourself and where to find help.

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Stutter
Marc Shell
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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ASIN: 0674019377

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One person can't help stuttering. The other can't help laughing. And in the way one bodily betrayal of better intentions mirrors the other, we find ourselves in the gray area where mind and body connect--and, at the damnedest moments, disconnect. In a book that explores the phenomenon of stuttering from its practical and physical aspects to its historical profile to its existential implications, Marc Shell plumbs the depths of this murky region between will and flesh, intention and expression, idea and word. Looking into the difficulties encountered by people who stutter--as do fifty million worldwide--Shell shows that, however solitary stutterers may be in their quest for normalcy, they share a kinship with many other speakers, both impeded and fluent.

Stutter takes us back to a time when stuttering was believed to be "diagnosis-induced," then on to the complex mix of physical and psychological causes that were later discovered. Ranging from cartoon characters like Porky Pig to cultural icons like Marilyn Monroe, from Moses to Hamlet, Shell reveals how stuttering in literature plays a role in the formation of tone, narrative progression, and character. He considers such questions as: Why does stuttering disappear when the speaker chants? How does singing ease the verbal tics of Tourette's Syndrome? How do stutterers cope with the inexpressible, the unspeakable?

Written by someone who has himself struggled with stuttering all his life, this provocative and wide-ranging book shows that stuttering has implications for myriad types of expression and helps to define what it means to be human.

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Stutter-Free Speech
George H Shames , and Cheri L. Florance
Manufacturer: C.E. Merrill Pub. Co.
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Though a writer, I couldn't have written this.

Man in the Moon
K. A Young
Manufacturer: Whyte Dove Press
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ASIN: 0970899955
Release Date: 2001-08-31

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Maxey Dove is an overly imaginative girl who has convinced herself her peers will accept her and that her absentee father will return to see her if only she can star in a school play ... but she stutters. To achieve her goals, she must learn to consider others and face the challenges of reality without giving up on her dreams.

Book contains no offensive language, sexual innuendo, descriptions of violence, or sorcery. These books are NEW AUTHOR-AUTOGRAPHED LIMITED FIRST EDITIONS.

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Though a writer, I couldn't have written this........2006-05-11

When I began reading this book, it was not comfortable, not quite like anything I would have written. It wasn't about me or anyone necessarily like me and, by the time I finished it, I was very glad of this. The story didn't feel forced. Instead, it was as though I had watched some part of the life of a very real little girl unfold before me, through her eyes. It was her story and I was better for having known her. I felt she had really lived, I wanted to believe she had lived and that I had been there for her... even if only somewhere in me.
The illustrations are cleverly rendered from the child's point of view. This gave the work a feeling of intimacy, as though peeking into someone's journal. There are things in the narrative which don't make sense at first--perhaps exaggerated or romanticized, one wonders--but the authentic perspective of a child comes through as the reasons and the motives begin to come together. As a father of two daughters, I believe any parent would find this work a special glimpse into the joys and the pains of children. I didn't want to put it down until I had finished.

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Sometimes I Just Stutter
Eelco de Geus , and Eelco de Geus
Manufacturer: Stuttering Foundation of America
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 093338842X

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Very useful!

Advice to Those Who Stutter
The Stuttering Foundation
Manufacturer: Speech Foundation of America
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 093338839X

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Offers practical advice written by twenty-eight men and women speech pathologists who themselves stutter, advising what helped them and what they believe will help anyone who stutters control his or her difficulty.

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Very useful!.......2000-06-26

Very useful book writen by people who really know about stuttering for others who stutter and do not have idea about what to do about it.

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Because I stutter
Wendell Johnson
Manufacturer: D. Appleton
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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In 1777 several of the world's greatest men gathered together to create a book that would champion rationalism, free thinking, and secularism--the Encyclopédie. Such leading minds as Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire conceived of a work that would tear down the social order dominated by the Crown and Church, a brave act at a time when heresy could still be punished by death. During the years it took to produce all twenty-seven volumes, the writers faced exile, jail, and censorship. But when they were done, they had created a book that would provide the foundation for the Enlightenment and change the world forever. Novelist and historian Philipp Blom presents the story behind the sixteen-year struggle to create the Encyclopédie, the men who wrote it, the powerful forces that tried to suppress it, and the tremendous impact it had on the world.

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Easy Reading Generalizations But Not Bad.......2007-03-10

This volume is a bit thin as history but an easy read and useful for those who want an easy way to get their head around d'Alembert and Diderot's Encyclopedie project. I like the book but don't consider it "high book" scholarship. With those qualifications, however, I'd recommed for the casual reader. D'Alembert's Preface to the Enclopedie is far "deeper," and provides a better summary. This is a nice book, worth having, but a bit of a coffee table edition, perhaps.

Encyclopedie.......2006-12-17

Philipp Blom is a delightful writer and this is a fascinating and highly entertaining history of the great French Encyclopedie created over the course of 25 turbulent years in the mid-1700s. Despite the title, this is really a book about people, with the encyclopedie as thread to tie the stories together. I have very little background in 18th C European/French history Blom makes it entirely accessible for novice and expert alike (although I suspect many of the stories here are well worn, but new to me, and well told). Probably the greatest compliment is I want to learn more about those involved, probably starting with a biography of Rousseau. This book easily sits besides Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything" and Henry Hitchings "Defining the World". As another reviewer mentioned, anyone with an interest in Wikipedia will find it fascinating.

The real importance of the Encyclopedie comes to life in this history of its controversies.......2005-12-03

What was the real significance of the 'Encyclopedie' by Diderot and d'Alembert? Many will say its size and date of appearance marked it as special: Philipp Blom reveals its significance lie in its blend of politics, honesty and ideas which went against the Church and Crown alike in its effort to provide unbiased truth. Its publication was to underwrite the values of two centuries to come, with philosophers Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and medical scientist Louis de Jaucourt living through arrest, imprisonment, attacks and more for their achievement. The real importance of the Encyclopedie comes to life in this history of its controversies.

A good read.......2005-09-04

Not the usual turgid history book of pre-revolutionary France but instead a very good, readable depiction of the trials and difficulties of creating the Encyclopedie. The prose is fluid and the book almost reads like a novel.

Before the Wikipedia..........2005-08-10

At a time when postmodern critiques of the Enlightenment downplay its significance it is useful to look at the phenomenon beyond abstraction in its particulars and vivid detail. Here the history of Diderot and his Encyclopedia brings the moment to life, and is a reminder of what the philosophes wrought in world still dominated by Church and King. The immense task of the work against the perils of censorship is close to a working miracle, and the tribulations of Diderot from the first lettre du cachet that put him in Vincennes prison are heroic. Diderot's dissatisfaction with his labors seem irrelevant now since this world-historical contribution to the Information Revolution is his great legacy.

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This new edition of J. E. Gordon's classic introduction to the properties of materials used in engineering answers some fundamental and fascinating questions about how the material world around us functions. In particular, Gordon focuses on so-called strong materials, such as metals, wood, ceramics, glass, and bone. For each material in question, Gordon explains the unique physical and chemical basis for its inherent structural qualities in irrepressibly fresh and simple terms. He also shows how an in-depth understanding of these materials' intrinsic strengths (and weaknesses) guides our engineering choices, allowing us to build the structures that support our modern society. Philip Ball's new introduction describes Gordon's career and the impact of his innovations in materials research, while also discussing how the field has evolved since Gordon wrote this enduring example of first-rate scientific communication.

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Good Text, as an engineering student.......2006-11-10

Good text for fracture mechanics enthusiasts- material failure, strength of materials.
Good reading, if you are an engineer, scientist, or not. Great examples. Dry british writing, but if you can get through it and the silly jokes, you can learn a lot.

Must Read.......2004-08-05

Reading this before embarking on university studies was an inspiration and I still come back to it now, it has a lot to offer all ages and disciplines.

A great book, but buy "Structures" instead.......2004-07-11

This book is part of the Princeton Science Library, the best collection of books on mathematics and science for the intelligent layman. Like other books in that series, it is succinct and clearly written. I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. All of the positive reader reviews are right on.

Because I liked it so much, I purchased "Structures," also by Professor Gordon. As it turned out, that book covers the same material, but in greater breadth and depth, and with more illustrations. There's much to be said for reading both books, but if you're only going to read one, "Structures" is the one.

Thoroughly Enjoyable!.......2004-07-02

I wish to echo the comments of all the previous reviewers. This is a delightful book!

Subjects such as elasticity of materials quickly bog down in mathematical detail and in the process of learning the subject, the student or interested person may quickly lose touch with what they're actually trying to grasp. This book is mostly a nonmathematical treatment (there are only a handful of mathematical formulas, chemistry equations and graphs throughout the book) which describes in a practical way what really happens with materials. Of course a deep understanding of this topic requires the full mathematical treatment, but this book certainly makes the subject accessible and engaging to anyone interested in the question "Why Don't You Fall Through the Floor?"

I agree with the reviewer who felt this is the kind of book that an undergraduate engineering, physics or applied mathematics student should read along with the more technical textbooks when first introduced to the subject of behavior of materials.

Elegant, Simple and Fascinating.......2001-10-24

Professor Gordon is the sort of teacher I would have appreciated in school. One imagines him as a grey haired gentleman in rumpled slacks and cardigan with a pipe and sneakers who makes it his kindly mission in life to fill his students with a zest for his chosen calling.

His explanations are elegant, simple and fascinating. I can't think of higher praise for someone trying to make sense of a discipline as complicated as materials science.

The problem with most academics is an inherent need to appear learned. This leads to obscure and convoluted explanations that are, if not overtly, at least subconsciously designed to maintain the gap between the ignorant masses and the enlightened adepts. Even when such academics make a conscious attempt to simplify, their efforts are too often sabotaged by the bad habits of a lifetime.

This is why good popularisers are so difficult to come by, and why the Gordons of the world should be so prized.

This book isn't just about the science of materials, but about how such an exotic subject actually connects with our everyday lives. We live in a certain way, and not in a different way, because of the strengths, weaknesses, costs and working difficulties in the materials that we use. I don't think most laymen ever bother thinking about the world in quite this way.

This book is not actually meant for engineers or scientists, although most such technos would greatly benefit from reading it (if only to learn the meaning of true grasp and clarity). Its true benefit is to those curious laymen who wish to know more, but who find the usual explanations beyond them.

This book should be required reading for all undergraduates, not just aspiring scientists or engineers. In fact, it should be especially required for non-technical types.

The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
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The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor

Manufacturer: Penguin Books, Limited
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The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor

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The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor Second edition
James Edward Gordon
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
J. E. Gordon
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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