Exam 2 Part 4

Question 1

What 3 things make up the cause of stuttering?

Answer 1

Heredity, environment, chance

Question 2

____ who stutter more likely to have relatives who stutter than _____ who stutter

Answer 2

Females, males

Question 3

Are males or females more likely to stutter?

Answer 3

Males

Question 4

True or false: there is a higher concordance (one who stutters and one who doesn’t) of stuttering in identical twins

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or false: Speech and language disorders are not common in people who stutter

Answer 5

False; common

Question 6

What can inhibit the recovery of children who stutter?

Answer 6

Presence of speech and language disorders

Question 7

What is the main etiology of adults who stutter?

Answer 7

After TBI

Question 8

What can increase a person’s disfluencies?

Answer 8

Higher arousal and anxiety

Question 9

True or false: Higher percentage of adopted stutterers relatives stuttered than expected

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What age is the majority of children who stutter?

Answer 10

2-5 years

Question 11

More people who stutter appear to use their ____ hemisphere rather than ____ hemisphere for language processing

Answer 11

Right, left

Question 12

Differences in brain laterality & processing can be result of different: (3)

Answer 12

organization of speech, language, & auditory function in the brains of PWS

Question 13

Stuttering results from inappropriate localization of some speech and language functions to the ____ hemisphere; inability to produce the rapid, precise, timing patterns necessary to produce speech

Answer 13

Right

Question 14

True or false: PWS are vulnerable to emotional interference because the right hemisphere is specialized for emotional processing

Answer 14

True