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About William G. WebsterWilliam G. Webster, PhD, is a person who stutters. To quote one reviewer of the book, he is also "an educator, researcher, and administrator who has worked on stuttering throughout his life."
The first twenty-two years of his career included being a professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he established an active research program focused on the brain mechanisms underlying stuttering. The results of that research have been published in refereed journal articles and edited book chapters, have been presented at professional conferences, and form the core of this book. He co-authored a clinical manual entitled Facilitating Fluency: Transfer Strategies for Adult Stuttering Treatment Programs, and that work forms a second core of this book. Then, in 1991, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and in 2002, Director of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in London, Ontario. From 2005 until his retirement in 2016, he was Dean of the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has four grown children and resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his wife, Anne. |
Stuttering and its Management:
What the Brain Tells Us
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In this book, Will Webster, as a retired academic who stutters, shares something of his lifelong personal and professional relationship with stuttering. Included in that journey is the neuropsychology research he conducted into what is different about the brain of the person who stutters and what changes in the brain as the person goes from periods of fluent speech to periods of marked difficulty, and vice versa. He then ties together the peer reviewed research findings with his personal experiences to provide a neuropsychological model and practical framework for strategies to mitigate stuttering and enhance communication ease and success.
The book is written for the lay person, particularly the lay person who stutters. People who stutter will gain insight into the cause and nature of their stuttering and its variability. Their family members, teachers, mentors, and even employers will gain insight into how to encourage and support those who stutter. The book will also be of interest to students and professionals who work with people who stutter because of the research-informed perspective on the experience and management of stuttering. The book carries a hopeful and realistic message that stuttering does not have to limit career choices, activities, or social life. |
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What to Expect
Introduction: What Do We Mean by Stuttering? Part I: The Early Years of a Boy/Young Man Who Stuttered Chapter 1. First Words and Early Days (1944-1961) Chapter 2. Laying the Foundation: Undergraduate Years (1961-1965) Chapter 3. Preparing for Neuroscience Research: Graduate Studies (1965-1970) Part II: Time to Set the World on Fire Chapter 4. My World as a Young and New Professor Who Stuttered Chapter 5. The Brain of the Person Who Stutters: Speech Motor Control Chapter 6. The Brain of the Person Who Stutters: Hemisphere Activation Chapter 7. Lessons from Stuttering Treatment Part III: Putting It All Together: Strategies for Managing Speech Chapter 8. From University Scientist to University Administrator Chapter 9. What has the Brain Taught Me? |
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Origins of Professional Psychology in Canada (1925-1965)
Reflections of a Pioneer
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Edward C. Webster was one of the earliest vocational guidance and industrial psychologists in Canada. He opened his practice in 1936 and was also a long-time professor of psychology and university administrator. During the last decade of his life, he began to document his perspective on early professional psychologists—almost all of whom he had known personally—and the nature of the profession, its origins and evolution in Canada, and the interplay between the emergence of psychology as a profession and the development of the Canadian Psychological Association.
Sometime after Edward died in 1989, his son and the executor of his estate, William G. Webster, found his drafts, notes, and correspondence with others. As a retired academic psychologist himself, William felt that his father had a most interesting story to tell. Working with his son, David E. G. Webster, William compiled Edward’s recollections of and reflections on the early years of the profession, those pre- and immediately post-World War II, and those through to the mid-1960s, when a pivotal conference set the trajectory for professional psychology and professional psychologists in Canada. With new information not previously published by Edward Webster or others, Origins of Professional Psychology in Canada (1925–1965) brings forward the thought-provoking, authentic reflections of a man whose ground-breaking contributions to applied psychology forever changed the field. |
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What to Expect
Obituary of Edward C. Webster, 1909-1989 Chapter 1. Definition and Overview Chapter 2. Professional Psychology Between the Two World Wars Chapter 3. Early Pioneers of Industrial/Organizational Psychology in Canada: Issues of Identity, Role and Training. Chapter 4. Psychology and the Canadian Army during the War Years: 1939-1945 Chapter 5. Training Professional Psychologists Chapter 6. Early Professional Psychologists and the CPA: The Interplay. |
