Exam 2

Question 1

What are 3 contributions to disfluency?

Answer 1

Prolongation, repetition, hesitation

Question 2

Effortless flow of speech

Answer 2

Fluency

Question 3

An abnormally high frequency or duration of stoppages in the forward flow of speech.

Answer 3

Stutter

Question 4

What are 3 types of stuttering?

Answer 4

Prolongations, blocks, repetition

Question 5

Stuttering that includes mostly frequently produced for more than 2 times

Answer 5

Repetition

Question 6

Stuttering that includes airflow continuing, movement stops as short as .5 seconds

Answer 6

Prolongations

Question 7

Stuttering that includes everything stops, tremors, tenseness; pause before producing a phoneme

Answer 7

Blocks

Question 8

What are some secondary behaviors of disfluencies?

Answer 8

Escape, avoidance

Question 9

Speaker attempts to terminate the stutter & finish the word

Answer 9

Escape

Question 10

Behavior done when speaker anticipates a stuttering episode

Answer 10

Avoidance

Question 11

What are some examples of avoidance?

Answer 11

Head nods, eye blinking, saying “uh”

Question 12

True or false: there is a genetic source of stuttering when passed from parent to child

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What are some feelings and attitudes a patient with disfluencies may experience?

Answer 13

Embarrassment, shame, frustration

Question 14

When is the onset of stuttering?

Answer 14

2 word utterances and puberty (18 months-12 years)

Question 15

What is the incidence of stuttering?

Answer 15

5-15%