Pseudoscience and the SpeechEasy: Reply to Kalinowski, Saltuklaroglu, Stuart, and Guntupalli (2007)

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-83

  Bothe, Anne K ^a   Finn, Patrick ^b   Bramlett, Robin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pseudoscience; SpeechEasy; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247244715     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2007/010)     Document Type: Article

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