Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Stuttering

Why do people stutter? What is the best treatment? This program from The Doctor Is In looks at the impact of stuttering on children, teenagers, and adults, and shows therapies designed to help them. The emphasis is on learning to live with a long-term problem that does not have to stand in the way of social enjoyment and career success. The program shows a support group for people who stutter, demonstrates new methods of including family members in therapy, and looks at experiments at NIH where the search is on to find the physiological cause(s) of stuttering. A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center production. (28 minutes)

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Item#: BVL4227
Copyright date: ©1990
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-3639-8


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