Clinical
Practice
Practice
This is the clinician quality of understanding the feelings of the client to “walk in their shoes”.
EMPATHY
When assessing younger children, one conversational play sample is collected with the SLP, and another with this person.
Parent/Guardian
This term is used for factors that trigger or hasten the events of stuttering.
PRECIPITATING FACTORS
In this initial procedure, the client explores current stuttering behaviors & reactions to find targets of future change.
IDENTIFICATION
In this fluency shaping technique, the oral structures touch each other gently.
LIGHT ARTICULATORY CONTACTS
This fluency-enhancing instrument provides “altered auditory feedback.”
SPEECHEASY
When assessing adults, the “Job Task” typically elicits this type of connected speech sample.
MONOLOGUE
This term is used for factors that maintain or aggravate stuttering after it has started.
PERPETUATING FACTORS
In this procedure, the client aims to remain relaxed and less reactional during moments of stuttering.
DESENSITIZATION
This fluency shaping technique is achieved by grouping fewer words together and pausing noticeably between the groups.
CHUNKING or PHRASING
The most common metric (measured units) of overall speech rate.
WORDS PER MINUTE
Stuttering severity is usually based on three parts: 1) stuttering frequency, 2) avg. duration of the 3 longest stuttering moments, and this third component.
CONCOMITANT or SECONDARY BEHAVIORS
This term is used for factors that are often associated with a disorder, but do not necessarily cause the disorder.
RISK FACTORS
This technique is also called
pre-block modification.
PREPARATORY SET
This fluency shaping technique ensures sufficient airflow is exhaled to initiate and support the entire utterance.
BREATH MANAGEMENT
This term is an alternative description of the condition known as “choral reading”
UNISON SPEECH or READING IN UNISON
The Modified Erickson Scale measures this aspect of the client’s difficulty with stuttering
ATTITUDES
This term is used for an SLP’s prediction of whether a client is likely to recover from a disorder.
PROGNOSIS
This is another term for voluntary stuttering.
PSEUDOSTUTTERING
In fluency shaping, this behavioral term refers to praising the client’s performance.
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
OASES is a testing instrument designed to elicit information about
the impact of stuttering (social, academic and vocational)
Are Pseudostuttering and voluntary stuttering the same thing?
YES
This term refers to treatment in which the child attends sessions or is instructed to change talking behaviors.
DIRECT THERAPY