Books of logopedics

Psychosomatics of Stuttering. Why stutterers speak fluently.

Zbigniew Tarkowski

"The author of the publication [...] has been dealing with stuttering for years, from both the scientific and practical point of view, by running stutterers' therapy. Therefore, he is very experienced which reflects in the book. It begins accurately, with an interview of a therapist with a stutterer [...]. It is a very well aforethought introduction. Next the author deliberates on stuttering from the viewpoint of psychosomatics and then starts to pore on the main issue: why stutterers speak fluently. There are many hypothesis cited [...] Because of many examined stutterers, the author plays a role of research coordinator. It is a very innovative and effective method [...] Generally, the book is written in a very interesting way [...] It is easy to read and even some detailed divagations do not bore but build the pressure."

An excerpt from the review by
professor Tomasz Zaleski

Screening Logopedics Test

Zbigniew Tarkowski

It consists of 4 subtests: Understanding, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation. It has specific norms. It is made for a quick selection of children retarded in speech. It includes a handbook and an instruction.

Child's Vocabulary Test. Methods of stimulation

II enlarged edition
Zbigniew Tarkowski

It consists of 3 sub-tests: Creating Subordinate Words, Defining Notions, Creating Main Words. It has norms. It is made for assessment of vocabulary which is recognized as a very important indicator of a speech and intellectual development.
The second edition has been enlarged by adding a chapter about methods of stimulating child's vocabulary (exercises in defining, recognizing, naming, classifying, generalising, analogy and verbal fluency).

Language Skills Test

Zbigniew Tarkowski

It consists of 7 sub-tests: Understanding a Fable, Vocabulary, Inflection, Correcting Clauses, Asking Questions, Requests and Orders, Telling a Fable. It consists of a handbook and an instruction.

Below, there are books published by the ORATOR Foundation which are already out of print.

A change of attitudes towards stuttering.

Zbigniew Tarkowski

"The latest publication by Zbigniew Tarkowski, dedicated to speech disfluency problem, will surprise a reader once again, just like it surprised me. This time he grasps stuttering from a social perspective which means that he considers social attitude towards the disorder and its stereotypes. The author conducted a very interesting experiment and received extremely interesting results.

Z. Tarkowski, an experienced therapist and academic teacher, suggests a model of changing attitudes towards stuttering. As a practitioner logopedist and psychologist, I completely support the author's propositions especially those about an innovative system of preparing therapists to work with stutterers."

An excerpt from the review by
professor Grażyna Krasowicz-Kupis

Coopers' Stuttering Assessment Questionnaire

Adaptation: Mieczysław Chęciek

It consists of 7 trials: Stuttering frequency, Disfluency periods, Avoiding reaction assessment, Unnatural reactions, Essence of stuttering, Perception of stuttering by a stutterer, Perception of stuttering by a logopedist. It consists of a handbook and an instruction.

Speech Disfluency and Logophobia Questionnaire

Zbigniew Tarkowski

It consists of 3 trials: Speech disfluency, Logophobia, Neurovegetative reactions. It also includes therapeutic programme: relaxation, desentisation, psychodrama and sociotherapy. It consists of a handbook and an instruction.

Dialogical Articulation Test

Anna Majewska-Tworek

It is a new, more objective form of examining child's pronunciation. The test has a scale of a phonetic and phonological dexterity development for children aged 3,0-6,11.

Development of Articulation Skills in Pre-school Children

Anna Majewska-Tworek

The book is a supplement and enlargement of Dialogical Articulation Test.

Development of Children' Speech - A Therapeutic and Stimulating Programme

Zbigniew Tarkowski, Celina Jurkiewicz

A handbook: contains essential information about speech retarded children and describes how to use the programme. Exercises and aids: this is a set of exercises with aids, useful for affecting parents attitude, eliminating difficult child's behaviour and developing his/her speech.
Individual programme: it is a child's therapy workbook dedicated for a therapist; it includes a pattern of a therapeutic contract, a description of a child's potential, specific cognitive and language areas polls, a therapy plan and strategy. The workbooks are sold as sets of 5.
A child's therapy workbook dedicated for a child: it enables registration of stimulation and therapy. It is a collection of exercises and tasks for children, parents and carers. The workbooks are sold as sets of 5.

Child's Thinking Test

Małgorzata Młynarska, Tomasz Smereka

It is an interesting method of assessing a way of processing verbal information and creating an appropriate strategy of stimulation and therapy. It consists of 2 parts: a handbook and aids.