Week 6:Stuttering (cont.), and cluttering

Question 1

What is cluttering?

Answer 1

-Cluttered speech is difficult to understand
-Often, the speaker is unaware of own unintelligibility: lack of self-monitoring skills

Question 2

What are symptoms of cluttering?

Answer 2

-Unusual speech rate: rapid or irregular, or
both
-Sounds and syllables get omitted
-robot-like speech when trying to speak slowly
- many non-SLDs
- articulation can sound slurred

Question 3

Why is cluttering different from stuttering?

Answer 3

• They dont really know what they want to say as their message gets lots in mazes
• in most cases they arent aware
• There are always rapis or irregluar speech rates
• mostly non SLDS
• speech rythm and melody is unusual in many cases

Question 4

Facts ab cluttering?

Answer 4

-unknown incidence or prevalence
-diffcult to diagnose
-disagreement on diagnosis criteria

Question 5

additional signs/symptoms of cluttering?

Answer 5

• disorganized lang or convo skills
• symptoms are controllable by the speaker to an extent(they can slow down w effort)
• social/vocational issues from cluttering
• sloppy handwriting
• low attention span
  -auditory perception difficulties