chapte 7 Flashcards
disorder of fluency that includes repetitions, prolongations, silent intervals, interjections, and excessive muscular effort
Stuttering
associated motor behaviors with stuttering
excessive muscular effort in speaking
facial grimaces
and hand and foot movements
_______ refers to the many forms of interruptions that prevent the easy, effortless, and smooth flow of speech
disfluencies
______ ___ _________ refers to the locations in the speech sequence where stuttering are typically observed
loci of stuttering
a strategy people who stutter use. They beat around the bush until the listener says the word they have been avoiding.
circumlocation
what some people who stutter tell us
their stuttering is uncontrollable
the harder they try to get out of stuttering the worse it gets
most listeners react unfavorably to their speech problem
people’s attempts to help them are useless
prevelance
1% in general population
4%in school age children
Famous people who stuttered
King George VI of England Vice President Joseph Biden Julia Roberts Prince Albert of Monaco Marilyn Monroe SIr Isaac Newton (Physicist)
Environmental explanation of the gender ratio is that
boys face greater demands for fluency than girls do
stutter tends to run in the family and there is greater concordance rate of stuttering in monozygotic twins
genetic explanation
when a person who stutters suddenly blocks on a word repeats syllables rapidly or prolongs a sound the vocal fold are behaving in an unusual manner
laryngeal dysfunction
helps view the larynx directly
fiberoptic scopes
laryngeal area which records electrical activity of the larynx
electromyography
moving xray pictures of laryngeal area
cineradiography
the child tries to avoid what the parents think is the problem: the normal disfluencies
parental diagnosis
