Facts
The definition of stuttering
What is a speech challenge that involves disfluent speech, specifically repetitions, blocks, and prolongations?
The definition of disfluency
What is when speech is interrupted or is lacking smooth flow?
The purpose of stuttering strategies
What is to gain more smooth control of speech, thus reducing the amount of disfluencies?
The reason we practice strategies in speech therapy
What is so that we can practice gaining control of our speech, thus increasing the fluency in our speech and so that we can receive feedback on how our strategies are working?
What is when we "fake" a type of disfluency or stutter
Describe how stuttering impacts a person (do people who stutter stutter the same way and at the same severity level?)
What is stuttering varies per person and at times the severity and types of disfluencies can come and go?
Name the three main types of disfluencies
What is repetition, prolongation, and blocks?
List 3 strategies
What is any of the following: cancellation, light contact, slow rate, stretchy speech, revision, easy onset.
Demonstrate slow rate
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What is the purpose behind pseudostuttering
What is so that we can practice our strategies with a disfluencies during structured speech activities
Describe the statistics of stuttering
What is stuttering is more common in males, impacts people worldwide (about 70 million), and impacts about 3 million Americans?
The type of disfluency when a sound, syllable, or word is said one or many times more than planned
What is a repetition?
Define how to use slow rate
What is when you control your speech rate by slowing down, without sounding robotic?
Demonstrate easy onset
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Demonstrate a prolongation
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Describe the cure for stuttering
What is there is no cure for stuttering?
The type of disfluency where a sound or part of a word is stretched out for a few seconds
What is a prolongation?
Define how to use light contact and easy onset?
What is when you lightly touch the articulators before saying the word you might stutter on and when you ease or breathe into the sound you are about to say?
Demonstrate light contact
Demonstrate a repetition
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Describe how stuttering is treated
What is there is no cure for stuttering, so a person can receive speech therapy to work on understanding stuttering and learning and using strategies that help promote fluent speech?
The type of disfluency where the word is stuck, you are unable to say the word
What is block?
Define cancellation
What is when you stop at the word you are stuttering on, take a pause and breath, and start the word or sentence again?
Demonstrate cancellation
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Demonstrate a block