General Info
Fluency disorder characterized by a rapid and/or irregular speaking rate, excessive disfluencies, and often other symptoms such as language or phonological errors and attention deficits
What is cluttering?
What is false?
An assessment of the severity of cluttering with the acronym: CSI.
What is the Cluttering Severity Instrument?
The clinical professional who can diagnose cluttering.
What is a Speech-Language Pathologist?
Reduced voice onset times, irregular syllable durations, severely shortened vowels, and compressed consonant clusters.
What are additional characteristics of cluttered speech?
Cluttering and stuttering can co-exist.
What is true?
Primary reason for seeking the evaluation, birth and developmental history, onset, course, past treatment, family history of speech or language disorders, and prior treatment.
What are things to consider when evaluating someone who clutters?
Rambling, run-on verbalizations that add nothing to the content of the message.
What is a Cluttering “Maze”?
Word-finding difficulties, poor reading ability, poor storytelling abilities, and poor memory skills.
What are possible characteristics of a person who clutters and stutters?
A person who clutters’ speaking rate may be irregular.
What is true?
Awareness of the patient towards his/her speech problem, oral-motor coordination exercises, relaxation drills, memory strategies, and rate control techniques.
What are possible focus points for cluttering treatment?
Word-finding difficulties, poor reading ability, poor storytelling abilities, and poor memory skills.
What are possible characteristics of a person who clutters and stutters?
Cluttering is often masked by this separate disorder.
What is stuttering?
A person who clutters’ speech is better when he/she is calm.
Patient will watch a video of themselves speaking and be asked to identify moments of good speech and cluttering.
What is an example of Heightened Monitoring?
Pronunciation (articulation) and language problems are often reduced if the person who clutters can achieve this.
What is a slower rate?
Lack of awareness of the problem, family history of fluency disorders, poor handwriting, and confusing, disorganized language or conversational skills.
What are possible additional symptoms of cluttering not linked to speech production?
Cluttering involves excessive breaks in the flow of speech.
What is true?
Involves pausing for a moment after disfluency occurs, taking a moment to think about what when wrong, and then attempting the word again.
What is cancellation/increased pausing?
Unfinished words, interjections, and revisions occur in clusters of disfluencies.
What are the most common disfluency categories in cluttered speech?