Fluency Disorders: Stuttering

Question 1

What is fluency?

Answer 1

Refers to the rhythm of speech. It’s the ability to speak easily, quickly, and without frequent stops and pauses

Question 2

What is disfluency?

Answer 2

When a speaker has a disruption in rhythm, rate, smoothness, effort, or automaticity.

Question 3

What is a fluency disorder?

Answer 3

Speech with an usually high rate of stoppages that disrupt the flow of communication and are inappropriate for the speakers age, culture, and linguistic background

Question 4

What are the risk factors for stuttering?

Answer 4

Predisposing factors meaning, carrying a genetic trait, gender or having an overly sensitive temperament. Precipitating factors age, stressors, self awareness.

Question 5

What are the common disfluencies?

Answer 5

Repetitions, prolongations, and blocks

Question 6

What are the core disfluencies and or primary features of stuttering?

Answer 6

Part word repetitions, single syllable word repetition, sound prolongations, and blocks.

Question 7

What are the secondary behaviors?

Answer 7

They are developed by a person who stutters in order to avoid or escape stuttering so they might yawn or blink as well as do a head jerk and add fillers to their speech. Escape behaviors or avoidance behaviors. Word and sound avoidance and situation avoidance.

Question 8

What is cluttering?

Answer 8

A fluency disorder where the speaker talks abnormally fast, irregular or both