Fluency
Characteristics of Stuttering
Disfluency
Classifications
Lesson 1
100
This is the aspect of speech that refers to continuity, rate, rhythm, and effort.
What is the definition of fluency?
100
A. Repetitions of sounds/syllables/words B. Prolongation of sounds C. Blocks
What is core behaviors?
100
" The dog is uh cute", is an example of...
What is normal disfluency?
100
Stuttering is "Disorders in the rhythm of speech, in which the individual knows what they wish to say, but at the time is unable to say it because of involuntary, repetitive prolongation or cessation of a sound.
What is symptomatic definition?
100
Latin for free flowing
What is fluency?
200
What are the four dimensions of fluency?
1. Continuity of speech (smoothness) 2. Rate of speech (fast/slow) 3. Rhythm of speech 4. Effort with which speech is produced
200
By product of stuttering behaviors
What is secondary behaviors?
200
The generic term disfluency refers to breaks that are...
What is normal, abnormal, and ambiguous?
200
Stuttering can be defined only via internal verification.
What is internal definition?
200
A 200-250 msec gap of silence
What is a pause?
300
Human beings are built in such a way that speech production requires only minimal mental and physical effort.
What is the law of least effort?
300
How do you differentiate escape and avoidance behaviors?
Escape behaviors happen during/in the moment while avoidance behaviors happen before in order to avoid the situation.
300
"Look at the buh-buh-ba-baby"
What is part-word repetitions, an abnormal disfluency?
300
Whatever is perceived as stuttering by a reliable observer.
What is a consensus definition?
300
A Vice President who stutters.
Who is Joe Biden?
400
How is speech a motoric act?
Because it involves communication intent, planning, programming, execution and speech.
400
Difference between prolongation and blocks.
What is movement in silence, found in prolongation, and no movement in silence, found in blocks.
400
How is disfluency different from dysfluency?
Disfluency refers to breaks while dysfluency leans more towards disordered/stuttering.
400
What does a person do when he stutters.
What is a descriptive definition?
400
We use these to gain attention, social reasons, and to invite people into the conversation.
What is sociolinguistic purpose of pauses?
500
Refers to pauses, rhythm, intonation, stress, and rate.
What is the temporal parameters of fluency?
500
Talks around the word, goes around and does not go straight forward. While in this situation they will say "desk" instead of table, in order to avoid stuttering.
What is circumlocution versus word change?
500
"Uhm I like to uh go to Disneyland". This is an example of...
What is a non word filler or interjection?
500
Why does a person stutter?
What is explanatory definition?
500
The four systems important for speech production.
What is respiratory, phonation, resonance, and articulation?