SPA 422 Quiz 1

The person who has the affliction and all of his past experiences, psychological makeup, neurological machinery, and abilities

TRUE or FALSE
Little or no evidence that person-first terminology reduces stigma or is percieved less negative than direct lables
True False

Description of behaviors that make up stuttering

Implies abnormal fluency (Same as stuttering) (dysarthria, dysphasia)

Implies breaks in fluency; generic term which is preceded by "abnormal" or normal

Synonymous with disfluency (term discontinued)

Similar to todays stuttering and cluttering; British usage; some clients prefer this term because iti s less emotionally loaded

Fluency disorder that often accompanies stuttering characterized by rapid or irregular speech rate; excessive normal disfluencies and repetitions

Stuttering (typically in adults) that begins after an identifiable neurological insult or lesion
Result of stroke, tumer, TBI

Stuttering that begins after childhood and is clearly associated with psychopathology

Smooth, effortless talking with no stuttering; facility in speaking a (foreign language); continuity and ease of speaking in aphasia

Symptom-oriented perceptual definition focuses on:

typical stuttered disfluencies

Stuttering defined in terms of observer agreement

Deviation or person-based definitions focuses on:

Stuttering is defined in terms of

Overt feature of stuttering

Not learned; physiological

Core behavior

Learned; strategies to get through the stuttering

Avoidance behaviors

Postponement devices (behaviors that delay-but do not avoid feared sounds, words or situations)

Behaviors used to initiate the feared word; seemingly endless variety: blinks, head nods, gasps

Behaviors that are used to terminate closures or blockages; sudden movements, may or may not be deliberate

Articulators are "pre-set" prior to the speech attempt with increased tension

Common response to tense laryngeal closure; attempt to move oout of blocked position

Stutterer exhales most of tidal air, the nattempts to talk- speech sounds strained and weak

Severe stutterers' attempts to interrupt closures

Behaviors designed to hide or cover up the act of stuttering; Range of normal to strange appearing behaviors; coughing, laughing, covering mouth

Not observable reactions

Convert reactions

Classification of fears

Other covert reactions

Said stuttering as a disorder of motoric timing and coordination

Complexity from most to least stable