There are very few resources available (at this time!) for thinking about stuttering other than as an individual and biological problem to be fixed, but we've found a few. We'll update this page as the list grows; if you come across helpful literature please let us know. 

Stuttering Literature  

  • Holte, Doreen Lenz. 2011. Voice Unearthed: Hope, Help, and a Wake-Up-Call for the Parents of Children who Stutter. Holte.
                    While not quite a critical perspective on stuttering itself, this book nevertheless helpfully calls into question the                                  assumption that stuttering must be managed through techniques like speech therapy. 

Academic Stuttering Literature

  • Dolmage, Jay. 2013. Disability Rhetoric. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
                    Disability Rhetoric reads the history of rhetoric through the lens of disability studies. The final chapter focuses on                               stuttering and "The King's Speech," arguing that stuttering does not close down communication, but                                                     opens up new forms of meaning.
  • Paterson, Kevin. 2012. “It’s About Time! Understanding the Experience of Speech Impairment.” In Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone, and Carol Thomas, eds., Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. New York: Routledge, 165-177.
                    Paterson argues that what we understand as speech impairment is the result of particular expectations of time,                               and that bodies capable of speaking fluently have more "social capital."                       
                    This essay examines how disabled speech is produced between speakers and hearers, how the disabled                                             speaking body is constructed by capitalist values of efficiency and self-mastery, and how stuttering is a                                               "liminal" disability. 

Disability Literature

                    This presents the Social Model of Disability and is an important document in the history of disability politics,                                        offering one of the earliest alternatives to the predominant medical viewpoint.
  • Withers, A.J. 2012. Disability Politics & Theory. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing. 
                    Withers provides an excellent introduction to disability theory that is accessible for a non-academic audience.                                   The author is a disability activist and works hard to show how disability intersects with racial, economic, and                                       gendered oppression.

Academic Disability Literature

                    Hahn presents a policy-minded overview of the various models of disability and how they have been                                                               applied.