Fluency Assessment

Question 1

Disfluency counting provides an impression of surface level characteristics. It doesn’t tell you…

Answer 1

how much they stutter in different situations, how they feel.

Question 2

Fluency sample should be ____ to ____ words

Answer 2

200 to 400

Question 3

Convert words to syllables stuttered by …

Answer 3

multiplying the% of stuttered words by 0.7.

Question 4

Examples of Physical Tension locations

Answer 4

Laryngeal (pitch change), Chest, Lips, Face, Tongue, etc.

Question 5

Secondary Behaviors include

Answer 5

distracting noises, facial grimacing, head movement, movement of extremities

Question 6

Demands Capacities Model

Answer 6

Preschool stuttering, limiting the demands and increasing the capacities of children in motoric, emotional, linguistic, & cognitive domains of fluency

Question 7

What would parents say in the demands and capacities model?

Answer 7

Make sure talking WITH them not TO them. So, parents would be making observational comments, so the child doesn’t have to respond, lessens demands