Fluency

Question 1

A professor is teaching a fluency course and asks her students to identify a core stuttering behavior from the list:
1. whole word rep
2. interjections
3. part word rep
4. secondaries

Answer 1

Part word repetition

Part word repetitions or sound/syllable repetitions, prolongations, and blocks are the CORE stuttering behaviors

Question 2

Research has indicated in persistent development stuttering, there was strong evidence of a primary deficit in the left hemisphere in the…

Answer 2

Lateral premotor cortex and primary motor cortex

Question 3

While treating a pt who clutters, clinician targets areas of communication breakdowns. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of cluttering that will need to be addressed?

A. rate that is abnormally rapid and irregular
B. frequent use of pauses
C. prosodic patterns that dont conform to syntactic and semantic constraints
D. normal coarticulation among sounds, especially multisyllabic words

Answer 3

D. normal coarticulation amoung sounds, esp multisyllabic words