Week 4: Consequences, treatment, and, management

Question 1

What is fluency shaping?

Answer 1

Aims for stutter free speech by altering timing and tension of all speech, stuttering or not

Question 2

What is stuttering modification?

Answer 2

aims to accept the stutter but modify it by changing attitudes towards stutter and assuming control over “something”.
Its used before, during, and after stuttering events

Question 3

What are 3 types of stuttering treatments?

Answer 3

Fluency shaping, stuttering modification, and avoidance reduction

Question 4

what are the techniques of Stuttering modification?

Answer 4

• prepset: used when sensing before stuttering to ease into speech
• pullout:used during to slide or stretch out a sound
• cancellation: after disfluency, pause, and start again repeating the previously stuttered word

Question 5

What are the techniques of fluency shaping?

Answer 5

• rate control
  -prolonged syllables
  -easy onset:letting out air before speech
• light articulation

Question 6

what is avoidance reduction?

Answer 6

-Focus on identifying and eliminating ‘avoidance behaviors’
- avoidance behavior–> stuggle–>neg thoughts–>avoidance–>avoidance behavior

Question 7

What are the 2 types of disfluencies?

Answer 7

-stuttering like disfluencies(sld)
- non stuttering like disfluencies(non-sld)

Question 8

What are some SLDs?(stuttering like disfluencies)

Answer 8

-monosyllabic word repetition
- sound repetition
-syllable repetition

Question 9

What are some non-SLDs?

Answer 9

• revision
• unfinished word
  -phrase repetition
  -interjection
  -polysyllabic word repetition