9/23/13-Fluency review for exam 1 Flashcards
What is stuttering not caused by?
- imitiation
- nervousness
- shyness
- demanding parents
- emotional trauma
What 2 tests are discussed in chapter 3?
- SSI
- OASES
What does SSI measure? and then how is it converted?
- measures frequency, duration, and physical concomitants of stuttering
- these are then converted to a numerical rating system which corresponds to the severity of stuttering
What 4 related sections does OASES examine?
- the speakers perception of the stuttering impairment
- the speaker’s affective behavioral and cognitive reactions to stuttering
- the speakers limitations when communicating in daily activities
- the impact of stuttering on the speakers overall participation in life
What does SSI stand for?
Stuttering severity instrument
What does OASES stand for?
Overal experience of the speaker’s experience of stuttering
what was OASES normed on?
300 people who stutter
What does OASES contain?
contains 100 items divided into 4 related sections
What are signs that a child will develop chronic stuttering?
depends on:
- nature of child’s disfluencies
- frequency of disfluencies
- situational variability
- presence of struggle/secondary behaviors
- child’s reaction to disfluencies
- familial history
- child’s gender
What is the best practice for assessing stuttering behaviors?? ***** ON EXAM
-Counting disfluencies
What is the nature of disfluencies?
- identify specific vowel/consonant patterns
- core features
- secondary behaviors–presence of struggle/accessory behaviors
- sounds, syllables, words, phrases
- Situational variability
- Location of disflluencies
- how handicapping is the stuttering (social, emotional, academic)
- family history
- parent reactions to disfluencies
- motivation
What areas of a chid’s life do you look at to assess how handicapping the stuttering is?
- social
- emotional
- academic
What are 2 theories discussed for stuttering? The founder(s)? Years?
- Cerebral Dominance Theory (Dr. Lee Edward Travis & Dr. Samuel Orton–1920s)
- Diagnostic/Semantogenic theory (Dr. Wendell Johnson –1930s)
What are the different approaches for fixing stutters/fluency?
-stuttering modification therapy
- fluency shaping
- Boberg & Kully (1920s)
- Speech Processing Therapy (1997)
- Precision Fluency Shaping (1966)
- Onslow & Packman (1997)
Who came up with the speech processing therapy approach?
-Dahm 1997
