Cluttering: A matter of perspective

The evolution of a discipline such as speech-language pathology pivots around three points: theoretical underpinnings, research questions and methodologies, and clinical acumen. Moreover, the advancement of a given discipline rests on the extent to which these three elements are integrated. Cluttering, however, has attracted little interest in the United States until rather recent times, having experienced a long hiatus of relative neglect by speech-language pathologists. This hiatus was preceded by an initial spurt of clinical insights from phoniatrists and logopedists originally trained in Europe during the early decades of this century.