Exam 1 Flashcards
CASS protocol 5-point self-ratings (+never)
Frequency, intensity, struggle, duration and effort
Speaker’s perception examination
Naturalness, spontaneity, smoothness & fluency
Variability of stittering
By situation (at work, at home, in social situations)
Over time (greatest, least difficult during the prior week)
Disability of stuttering
The limitation on ability to communicate
The limitation affected by
severity, feelings and attitudes
Handicap is
Limitation it puts on individuals’ lives
Lack of fulfillment they have in social life, school, job and community
Five dimensions of stuttering
Social dimension
Motor control when speaking
Emotional dimension
Linguistic dimension
Cognitive dimension
Taxonomy (unambiguous stuttering moments)
Repeated movements
Fixed postures
Superfluous behaviors
Core behavior approach
Repetitions
Prolongations
Blocks
Secondary behavior approach
Escape
Avoidance
Distribution of stuttering moments
Initial word consonants
-more common on consonants than vowels
-90% occur on the initial sounds of words
-1st word of a clause
-1st word of an utterance (most common)
Rare at the end of words
Stutter on content or words with little semantic content more?
Content words more
Stressed syllables are stuttered more?
True or false?
True
The more complex the grammar is, the more stuttering the person will produce
True or false?
True also utterance length
Adaptation effect
Read the same thing more, stutter less
