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Fluency

Terms in this set (13)

Stuttering
anticipatory, apprehensive, hypertonic avoidance reactions
what a person does to avoid stuttering - a social role conflict
when the forward flow of speech is interrupted by a metrically disrupted sound, syllable, or word or by the speaker's reactions thereto
Cerebral dominance theory
persons who stutter are less likely than their fluent peers to have developed unilateral cerebral dominance
speech that contains ___% or more disfluencies may be judged to be dysfluent
5%
preschoolers stutter more on _______
function words
older children stutter more on _______
content words
genetic hypothesis
high familial incidence, high rate in identical twins, well-established gender ratio in the prevalence of stuttering
neurophysiological hypothesis
abnormal neuromotor organization, aberrant laryngeal functions may be defective
what does cognitive therapy focus on?
On changing the client's distorted beliefs about self-efficacy and the need to speak with complete fluency
psychological methods of treatments
psychoanalysis
psychotherapy
counseling
Fluent Stuttering Method
stutter-more fluently, goal is modified stuttering (VanRiper), cancellations, pull-outs, preparatory sets
-teach
-desensitize
-modify
-stabilize treatment gains
-counseling
fluency shaping method
Speak-more-fluently, establish normal fluency, slow
and deliberate sounding fluency
Fluency Reinforcement Method
reinforce fluent speech in naturalistic conversational contexts
Direct Stuttering Reduction Methods
person who stutters is taught to stop talking after each disfluency, withdraw reward
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