Exam 2: Lecture 13

Question 1

List the clinician qualities that distinguish a clinician from a technician in terms of clinical decision making (5).

Answer 1

1. Client directed
2. Flexible procedures
3. Treatment alternatives
4. Open focus, on person
5. Dynamic

Question 2

List the technician qualities that distinguish a technician from a clinician in terms of clinical decision making (5).

Answer 2

1. Technique directed
2. Pre-planned procedures
3. Dogmatic treatment
4. Narrow focus, on problem
5. Static

Question 3

What clinician skills should a clinician possess (EX: show more flexibility)?

Answer 3

1. Become less inhibited
2. Open your focus
3. Calibrate to the client (Both therapeutically and personally)
4. Take risks (e.g., voluntary stuttering)
5. Challenge the client
6. Sense of humor

Question 4

What are differences in procedures due to in the clinical management of stuttering?

Answer 4

1. Changing nature of the disorder of stuttering
2. Effect of age itself

Preschool age
School age
Adults

Question 5

What are the goals of preschool treatment?

Answer 5

1. Primary goal: Improve their fluency
2. Help parents and teachers provide a fluency-facilitating environment
3. Help child develop normal speech fluency by changing the child’s communicative patterns.
4. Help child and family maintain healthy, appropriate attitudes toward communication.

Question 6

What is a fluency-facilitating environment?

Answer 6

Parents and teachers can change their own speech to help the child change his.