Further reading
The Evidence Hub catalogs primary research. This page points to longer-form references and communities that shape contemporary practice: verbal diversity, access, and participation. We trust these sources because they are the ones SLPs rely on right now.
The state of the art for stuttering practice
Stuttering Therapy Resources - stutteringtherapyresources.com
The current reference point for clinicians working with people who stutter from a verbal-diversity perspective. The publishing and community arm associated with J. Scott Yaruss and Nina Reardon-Reeves. The site combines practical guides, the OASES assessment tool, parent and teacher booklets, free clinical handouts, and a regularly-updated blog that has become the closest thing the field has to a living document on how stuttering is now understood. Yaruss's article on his current definition of stuttering is a particularly clear summary.
Spero Stuttering - sperostuttering.org
A community-led organization for people who stutter and the speech-language professionals who work with them. Spero has rapidly become a central node in the network of clinicians, researchers, and people who stutter advancing identity-based approaches. Programs include peer support, the SLP Book Club, the Professor Brown Bag Series for SLP educators, and live and recorded educational events. Both a referral resource for clients and a community to engage with as a clinician.
Books
Campbell, Constantino & Simpson, eds. (2019). Stammering Pride & Prejudice: Difference not Defect. J&R Press.
The foundational book of the contemporary stuttering pride movement. Edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, and Sam Simpson, with contributions from people who stutter and from clinicians. Brought social-model thinking into mainstream stuttering discourse and laid the groundwork for the same authors' 2022 academic paper Stuttering and the social model. Read alongside the social model of communication page for context.
Yaruss & Reardon-Reeves (2017/2025). Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide. Stuttering Therapy Resources.
The current go-to clinical guide for working with children ages 2 to 6 who stutter. Co-authored by J. Scott Yaruss and Nina Reardon-Reeves. The book combines family-centered support with attention to children's communication attitudes and self-perception, framed within Stuttering Therapy Resources' broader emphasis on verbal diversity. Stuttering Therapy Resources link.
Reardon-Reeves & Yaruss (2013/2025). School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide. Stuttering Therapy Resources.
The current go-to clinical guide for working with school-age children who stutter. The companion volume to the early-childhood book, with the same orientation: addressing communication attitudes, support systems, and the impact of stuttering alongside speech work, rather than treating speech reduction as the only goal. Stuttering Therapy Resources link.
Hall & Boisvert (2025). Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Extended Reality in Speech-Language Pathology: Integrating Technology into Clinical Practice. Plural Publishing.
An edited volume on the integration of AI, automation, and extended-reality technologies into speech-language pathology practice. Edited by Nerissa Hall and Michelle Boisvert. Gareth Walkom (founder of withVR) co-wrote a section of the introduction (covering the future of the field) and contributed a chapter on use cases of XR in speech-language pathology. Plural Publishing link.
Rizzo & Bouchard, eds. (2023). Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions. Springer.
The closest the field has to a canonical reference work on clinical VR. A 17-chapter edited volume covering anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, addictions, eating disorders, pain, autism, ADHD assessment, stroke and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, and virtual standardized patients. Edited by Albert "Skip" Rizzo (USC Institute for Creative Technologies) and Stéphane Bouchard (UQO), both senior figures in clinical VR research. Speech, voice, and hearing are not covered as standalone chapters, but the adjacent chapters on social-anxiety exposure, virtual classroom assessment, and stroke and TBI cognitive rehabilitation overlap with several Evidence Hub topics. Springer link.
Suggestions welcome
If a resource we should know about is missing - particularly one that takes a verbal-diversity perspective on stuttering, voice, or communication - send the reference and a sentence on why it matters to hello@withvr.app. The list will grow as the field grows.
This page is editorial commentary. It does not replace primary research, and citations to books or communities here are not equivalent to citations of peer-reviewed studies. For peer-reviewed evidence on specific clinical questions, see the Evidence Hub studies and topic pages.
Know of a resource that should be here? If a book or community on VR in clinical practice, on stuttering, on voice, on hearing, or on verbal-diversity framing of communication differences is missing, send the reference to hello@withvr.app.