Sounds are produced in a very gentle manner with little pressure or tension
Relaxed breath patterns
What is abdominal breathing to reduce tension and provide good breath support?
Preparatory Sets
What is using strategies before you say a word to reduce disfluencies?
Secondary behaviors
What are ineffective behaviors that we use/develop to try to help with fluency?
More likely to stutter (boys or girls)
What are boys?
Slowing down speech production
What is slower speech rate?
Easy onset
What is initiating sounds in an easy, gentle manner?
Pull-outs
What is using your strategies in the middle of a disfluency?
Avoidance behaviors
What are behaviors we develop to avoid having to speak in situations where we might have difficulty or to avoid having to say certain words or sounds?
Stuttering has a genetic factor so it tends to run in ________.
What are families?
Using abdominal breathing to reduce tension and improve breath support
What are relaxed breath patterns?
Light contacts
What is producing sounds in a gentle manner with little pressure or tension?
Cancellations
What is using strategies after a disfluency to produce the word fluently?
Self-advocacy
What is speaking up for ourselves in order to achieve a goal that is important to us, such as not having to speak in front of a class?
Marilyn Monroe, James Earl Jones, Emily Blunt, B.B. King, and Shaquille O’Neal
Who are famous people who stutter(ed)?
Initiating sounds in an easy, gentle manner
What is easy onset?
Stretched speech or sliding
What is stretching sounds out to reduce tension?
The purpose of cancellations
What is to practice using strategies to help with fluency?
Throat clearing, blinking, turning your head
What are examples of secondary behaviors?
1% of the world's population
What is the estimated percent of people who stutter?
Allowing some air to escape before beginning voicing
What is passive exhale?
Pausing and Chunking
What is taking brief pauses to allow for taking breaths and planning?
The best way to use strategies
What is preparatory sets?
Using a different word than the one you intended to use, not eating lunch with your friends, not answering a question that someone asks you
What are examples of avoidance behaviors?
What are the ages when children often start to stutter?