definitions
When words are spoken easily, smoothly, in a forward flow...
What is Fluent Speech?
There is an actual physical cause for stuttering.
What is Organic Theory?
Occurs in adults of any age after a stroke, TBI, infection, or tumor...
What is Neurogenic Stuttering?
The professional responsible for identifying and planning an appropriate treatment program for a person who stutters.
What is the SLP?
The plan for no treatment.
What is Natural Recovery?
When one word does not flow smoothly and quickly to the next...
What is disfluent speech?
There is a learned response to conditions which results in stuttering.
What is Behavioral Theory?
What is forms of communicative stress?
The process of gaining information from the client, family, and other professionals involved in the client's life.
What is the case history & interview process?
The treatment that educates the family on creating an easy going environment for the young child showing early signs of stuttering.
What is Indirect Treatment?
Errors like sentence revision, pauses filled with um, ah, uh, or infrequent part-word repetitions...
What is Normal Disfluency?
Stuttering in a symptom of a unconscious internal conflict.
What is Psychological Theory?
Blinking, tapping, head jerks, jaw movement with stuttering moments...
The process of measuring the core behaviors of stuttering and calculating a score.
What is Standardized Stuttering Assessment?
The program for preschool children in which the family provides the treatment in various ways throughout the day with weekly monitoring by the SLP.
What is the Lindcombe Program?
Errors that involve prolongations, whole or part word repetitions with excess tension....
Clinicians help people who stutter by assuming it is a reaction to flawed speech production programming.
What is Covert Repair Hypothesis?
Remaining silent, agreeing easily, seldomly interacting ...
What are common avoidances?
Ruling out a tumor or other organic reason for stuttering.
What is the Medical Assessment?
The treatment program that works to reduce rate of speech by focusing on prolongation of syllable production in speech.
What is Fluency Shaping?
A fluency disorder characterized by a rate that is perceived to be abnormally rapid, irregular or both for the speaker.
What is Cluttering?
Clinicians help people who stutter by asserting that the environmental demands are greater that the person's capabilities.
What is the Demands and Capacities Model?
What can disrupt fluency?
Determining the person who stutters feelings and attitudes about stuttering.
What is an informal assessment?
The treatment program based on the work of VanRiper in 1973 and that uses 3 techniques to reduce or eliminate stuttering.
What is Stuttering Modification Techniques?