Kathleen Scaler Scott, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, is a practicing speech-language pathologist, board-certified specialist in fluency disorders, and associate professor of speech-language pathology at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. She has been a practicing clinician for over 25 years in school, hospital, and private practice settings. Her clinical and research work has included focus on the impact of executive functions on daily speech and communication. Dr. Scaler Scott's research interests are largely in cluttering, atypical disfluency, and clinician training and treatment effectiveness. She is the co-editor of Cluttering: A Handbook of Research, Intervention, and Education (2011) and co-author of Managing Cluttering: A Comprehensive Guidebook of Activities (2013), both with Dr. David Ward. Dr. Scaler Scott has spoken nationally and internationally on the topics of fluency and social pragmatic disorders. She is a certified special education and elementary education teacher and was the first coordinator of the International Cluttering Association.

Dedication Acknowledgments About the Author Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Background, Terms, Definitions, and State of the Research Chapter 3. Principles for Working With Concomitant Disorders Chapter 4 Executive Functioning and Disorders of Speech Fluency Chapter 5. Articulation, Phonological Disorders, and Apraxia Chapter 6. Intellectual Disability Chapter 7. Learning Disabilities, Auditory Processing, and Language Disorders Chapter 8. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Chapter 9. Autism Spectrum Disorder Chapter 10. Selective Mutism Chapter 11. Gifted and Talented Chapter 12. Concluding ThoughtsReferences Index