ch. 7: Fluency Disorders Flashcards
1
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Fluency
A
easy, rhythmical and evenly flowing
2
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Disfluency
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phrase repetitions, interjections, pauses and revisions
3
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What is Stuttering?
A
unusually high frequency or duration of repetitions, prolongations, and or blockages
4
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Incidence
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5%
5
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Prevalence
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1%
6
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When stuttering tends to occur: (3 ways)
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- speaking in long and complex utterances
- speaking to authority figures
- something needs to be said in a hurry
7
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When speech induces Fluency
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- singing
- using pretend voices
- engaged in choral reading
- talk to babies or animals
8
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Factors of Chronic Stuttering
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- Negative feelings & Attitudes
- Avoidance
- Difficulties w/ speech motor control
- Difficulties w/ language formulation
9
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treatment of stuttering
Modification Therapy
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1) cancellation
2) pull out
3) preparatory act
10
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Cluttering
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-rapid bursts of dysrhythmic, unintelligible speech
11
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Primary Stuttering Behaviors
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- occurs within the persons actual speech
- Part word repetitions
- Prolongations
- Blocks
12
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Part-word Repetitions
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- syllables (with or w/o schwa vowel)
- Interjections (“uh” or “um”)
- Phonemes (Base, b,b,b,b ball)
13
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ex: vvvvvvan
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prolongation in speech
14
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silent prolongations
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blocks, sounds that get stuck
15
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Secondary behaviors
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-counter productive behaviors as ppl try to avoid primary stuttering behaviors
