Stuttering prevalence, incidence and recovery rates depend on how we define it: Comment on Yairi & Ambrose' article Epidemiology of stuttering: 21st century advances

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 290-293

  Brocklehurst, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LETTER; MUSCLE TONE; SELF REPORT; STUTTERING;

DEFINITION; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STUTTERING; THEORY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STUTTERING;

EID: 84887006929     PISSN: 0094730X     EISSN: 1873801X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2013.01.002     Document Type: Letter

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