Quiz 4

Question 1

Why might it be hard for a clinician to consider a client’s needs?

Answer 1

We may relate a client to another client we have previously seen. Must make sure to look at each client with fresh eyes

Question 2

What is one challenge about diagnosing bilingual speakers with stuttering?

Answer 2

Determining whether or not the disfluencies come from a limited proficiency in another language

Question 3

What is one way to diagnose a bilingual speaker with stuttering?

Answer 3

See if they have any secondary behaviors or cognitive/emotional responses to their stuttering

Question 4

What are the main tasks in interviewing a client and their family?

Answer 4

Discern what an individual or family would like from the clinician, understanding the stuttering problem.

Question 5

Talking about stuttering, emulating it, and being aware of what’s happening during the moment of stuttering.

Answer 5

Confronting stuttering

Question 6

Measurement and evaluation of changes the client is making/has made over the short and long term

Answer 6

Continuing assessment

Question 7

The length of time, usually in seconds, that a stutter lasts. From my perspective, this includes the time when forward movement of speech is halted; therefore, the moment of the actual block, prolongation, or repetition is measured as well as the time taken by various starters, postponements, and other secondary behaviors.

Answer 7

Duration

Question 8

The capacity to understand another’s perspectives, beliefs, and emotions.

Answer 8

Empathy

Question 9

Data suggest that a procedure or measurement tool produces approximately the same result when used by different individuals or the same individual at different times

Answer 9

Evidence of reliability

Question 10

Comparison of results by different individuals using a measurement tool

Answer 10

Interrater reliability

Question 11

The extent to which speech sounds like that of a typical speaker who doesn’t stutter.

Answer 11

Speech naturalness

Question 12

Ways of speaking designed to induce fluency. Examples are slow rate, easy onset of voicing, and light contact of articulators.

Answer 12

Fluency shaping

Question 13

A federal law that mandates the procedures for gathering information and deciding on treatment of children in public schools

Answer 13

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 1997)

Question 14

A brief administration of one or more therapy strategies, used for the purpose of determining the effect on the client’s speech in an evaluation

Answer 14

Trial therapy

Question 15

Why is it important to ask open-ended questions during an interview?

Answer 15

It allows them to answer the question in their own words.

Question 16

What are examples of questions you may ask during a parent interview for a preschooler?

Answer 16

Issues during pregnancy, language skills compared to siblings, motor skills compared to siblings, family history of speech/language disorders, when stuttering first occurred, anything going on in the child’s life when the stuttering occurred, what parents believed caused the problem, if they avoid words or situations

Question 17

Children who are typically disfluent are likely to have what 3 disfluencies when they are younger than 3.5 years old?

Answer 17

Revisions, multisyllabic word repetitions, interjections

Question 18

What disfluencies are present in preschool children who stutter?

Answer 18

Part-word repetitions, single-syllable word repetitions, prolongations, tense pauses

Question 19

T/F: SSI-4 is not a tool for differentiating stuttering from normal disfluency but for assessing severity

Answer 19

True

Question 20

A hoarse voice may be especially significant in a preschool child who stutters because it may be a sign that the child has increased tension in their ________.

Answer 20

Laryngeal muscles