Stuttering

Question 1

T/F: 50% people that stutter are sensitive/perfectionists.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following are normal disfluencies?
A. repetitions
B. Prolongations
C. blocks of airflow or voicing in speech
D. All

Answer 2

D. All

Question 3

Prevalence is how widespread the disorder is, ______ is how many people have stuttered at some time in their lives.

Answer 3

Incidence

Question 4

_____ is increase in frequency of escape behaviors, and ______ is increase behaviors used to evade

Answer 4

Operant is increase in frequency of escape behaviors, and avoidance is increase behaviors used to evade

Question 5

Which of the following factors support natural recovery?
A. good scores on speech/lang test
B. no family history
C. early onset age
D. female
E. all

Answer 5

All

Question 6

Which theory is the capacity for rapid, fluent utterances are not equal to demands within the child or environment?
A. diagnosogenic theory
B. anticipatory struggle theory
C. capacities & demands theory

Answer 6

C. capacities & demands theory

Question 7

T/F: Secondary stuttering are repetitions/prolongations that result of constitutional factor

Answer 7

False, that is Primary Stuttering

Question 8

T/F: Secondary stuttering includes tension, struggle escape, and avoidance behaviors

Answer 8

True

Question 9

T/F: Secondary behaviors are severe in neurogenic stuttering.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

What can neurogenic stuttering be acquired through?
A. Stroke
B. Head trauma
C. Tumor
D. Parkinsons
E. All

Answer 10

All

Question 11

What are the emotions neurogenic stutterers have?

Answer 11

Annoyed, Frustrated (they are not fearful)

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT an indicator of cluttering?
A. excessive normal disfluencies
B. excessive collapsing or deletion of syllables
C. abnormal pauses
D. multiple secondary behaviors

Answer 12

D. multiple secondary behaviors

Question 13

Which disorders commonly co-occur w/ cluttering?

Answer 13

Parkinsons, ADHD

Question 14

T/F: Articulation problems cause people who clutter to have slurred or mushy sounding speech.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What is the major difference between clutterers and stutterers?
A. the speech rate
B. how aware they are of their speech disorder
C. the types of disfluencies
D. the amount of tension while speaking
E. all the above - they are all different

Answer 15

E. all the above - they are all different

Question 16

T/F: Altered Auditory Feedback includes masked auditory feedback (MAF), delayed auditory feedback (DAF), and frequency altered feedback (FAF).

Answer 16

True

Question 17

T/F: The Camperdown program is a Speech Restructuring treatment developed for adolescents, adults, and children.

Answer 17

False: Only adolescents and adults

Question 18

T/F: not all stuttering is genetic, 50% link to a family Hx, others are just born with it to unknown causes

Answer 18

True

Question 19

T/F: Treatment is solely based on pharmaceutical drugs w/o the need for ST.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

What types of disfluencies are observed in individuals w/ ADHD?

Answer 20

filled pauses, word repetitions

NOT blocks

Question 21

T/F: Solution Focused Brief Therapy is an approach that helps people identify the strengths and resources they already have to resolve their problems.

Answer 21

True