exam 1

Question 1

gerlach

Answer 1

-pros and cons that adults decide to change when living with a stutter; talks about why adults who stutter may not change

Question 2

gerlach results

Answer 2

5 themes to pros of change: enriching one’s social relationships, feeling better in social interactions, developing healthier sense of self, gaining autonomy, communicating easier

Question 3

gerlach cons of change

Answer 3

experiences discomfort, expending resources, and recgonzing that some things may not change. adults may not seek treatment

Question 4

daniels

Answer 4

most kids have anxiety about speaking in class. adults interviewed about their time in school. K-12. retrospective study

Question 5

daniels result

Answer 5

most had an overall negative feeling about school; used coping strategies and lingustic strategies to help/be more fluent

Question 6

klompas

Answer 6

adults, south african population, how stuttering has affected different domains of their life: education, social life, employment, etc. did interviews

Question 7

klompas results

Answer 7

claimed stuttering affected academic performance, specifically between teachers and classmates, didn’t affect friends but others acted negatively towards them

Question 8

karimi

Answer 8

assess relative and absolute reliability of the 2 most frequently used stuttering outcomes measures, %ss and SR scales

Question 9

karimi results

Answer 9

absolute reliability results were unacceptable for %ss and sr scores. which suggests these measures are not suitable to detect small changes within individual participants. relative reliability findings suggest that they are suitable.
realtive = good
absolute = bad

Question 10

yairi

Answer 10

presence of stuttering was indiciated by any of the following criteria
-parental description of stuttering episodes
-parental severity rating of stuttering of higher than 1 on the rating scale
-investigators observation of speech characteristics judged

Question 11

walsh

Answer 11

which factors can be used to determine if stuttering will still persist in pre-school

Question 12

walsh results

Answer 12

the sex, family history, non-word repetition performance, presence of certain SLDs indicate a persistence of stuttering

Question 13

yairi, ambrose, paden, throneburg

Answer 13

whether parameters of frequency of disfluency, acoustic characteristics of disfluencies, secondary head and facial movement, phonological and language skills, nonverbal skills, and genetics can be used to help predict persistence and recovery. no single predictor has been identified.

Question 14

yairi, ambrose, paden, throneburg results

Answer 14

no single predictor was identified to be solid

Question 15

jones, menzies, onslow

Answer 15

gap in slps treating patients who experience psychological problems due to stuttering; different measurement qualities and we don’t know which ones are the best to use

Question 16

jones, menzies, onslow results

Answer 16

CAT and OASES-S were found to have the most evident support of their measurement properties

Question 17

illinois study

Answer 17

stuttering does not appear to arise from the normal disfluencies of young children, parents who suspect stuttering are often correct, 2/3 of speech of children who stutter are slds, parents indicate some degree of emotional/physical stress, associated characteristics often present at onset, more severe and complex stuttering overtime is not linear