On the importance of scientific rhetoric in stuttering: A reply to Finn, Bothe, and Bramlett (2005)

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-76

  Kalinowski, Joseph ^a   Saltuklaroglu, Tim ^b   Stuart, Andrew ^a   Guntupalli, Vijaya K ^a,c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altered auditory feedback; Delayed auditory feedback; Pseudoscience; SpeechEasy; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247282048     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2007/009)     Document Type: Article

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