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From: Ken Logan
Date: 06 Oct 2010
Time: 21:02:33 -0500
Remote Name: 74.179.112.136
Hi Kim, I just wanted to add to Kelly's comments that many of the books that we reviewed in the article that Kelly mentioned are listed on the Stuttering Homepage too. If you poke around on the main page, you should find the link for the "children's book" section. In our article, we tried to provide a bit of critical analysis on things like the accuracy with which stuttering was depicted, whether speech therapy was mentioned, etc. As you might expect, the plots of the stories for younger children are much simpler than those for older children...so, there won't be any "high detail" explorations of stuttering. You might check out, for example,the Mary Marony series (author = Suzy Kline) which features a young girl who stutters as the central character. In the books, she faces challenges with her speech as well as some other aspects of daily life. They were all the written in the 1990's and I would imagine that they'd be readily available in the children's section of most public libraries.