ch. 7: Fluency Disorders

Question 1

Fluency

Answer 1

easy, rhythmical and evenly flowing

Question 2

Disfluency

Answer 2

phrase repetitions, interjections, pauses and revisions

Question 3

What is Stuttering?

Answer 3

unusually high frequency or duration of repetitions, prolongations, and or blockages

Question 4

Incidence

Answer 4

5%

Question 5

Prevalence

Answer 5

1%

Question 6

When stuttering tends to occur: (3 ways)

Answer 6

• speaking in long and complex utterances
• speaking to authority figures
• something needs to be said in a hurry

Question 7

When speech induces Fluency

Answer 7

• singing
• using pretend voices
• engaged in choral reading
• talk to babies or animals

Question 8

Factors of Chronic Stuttering

Answer 8

• Negative feelings & Attitudes
• Avoidance
• Difficulties w/ speech motor control
• Difficulties w/ language formulation

Question 9

treatment of stuttering

Modification Therapy

Answer 9

1) cancellation
2) pull out
3) preparatory act

Question 10

Cluttering

Answer 10

-rapid bursts of dysrhythmic, unintelligible speech

Question 11

Primary Stuttering Behaviors

Answer 11

• occurs within the persons actual speech
• Part word repetitions
• Prolongations
• Blocks

Question 12

Part-word Repetitions

Answer 12

• syllables (with or w/o schwa vowel)
• Interjections (“uh” or “um”)
• Phonemes (Base, b,b,b,b ball)

Question 13

ex: vvvvvvan

Answer 13

prolongation in speech

Question 14

silent prolongations

Answer 14

blocks, sounds that get stuck

Question 15

Secondary behaviors

Answer 15

-counter productive behaviors as ppl try to avoid primary stuttering behaviors

Question 16

-looking away, open jaw, purse lips, eye blinks, facial grimaces, change words, limb movements

Answer 16

Secondary stuttering behaviors

Question 17

Which is most distracting, primary or secondary?

Answer 17

secondary, bc it involves the movements of the rest of the face and body

Question 18

What do differences tell us?

Answer 18

ppl can outgrow their stutter, or learn to manage it well

Question 19

Neurological differences in stutterers

Answer 19

• more activation in R hemisphere
• more activation in the cerebellum
• less activation in the L hemisphere, speech and lang areas

Question 20

2 common myths about stuttering?

Answer 20

• Stuttering is a nervous reaction

- Overly sensitive parents

Question 21

MIDVAS was coined by who?

Answer 21

Van Riper; 1973

-used to explain treatment to stuttering

Question 22

MIDVAS stands for…

Answer 22

-M: Motivation
-I: Identification
D: Desensitization
V: Variation
A: Approximation
S: Stabilization