Therapy that helps a person who stutters produce more fluent speech is called - ANS
✔✔fluency shaping
One way that treatment for adults who stutter differs from treatment of children who stutter is -
ANS ✔✔providing knowledge about stuttering to the client
Rapid speech rate, as well as over use of questions and directives are considered to be: - ANS
✔✔communicative stressors
Prognosis for improvement in fluency may be influenced by: - ANS ✔✔all of the above
Family history, gender and neuroanatomical differences are: - ANS ✔✔predisposing factors
Physical differences between people who stutter and those with fluent speech include: - ANS
✔✔differences in gray matter near Broca's area
Head nods, leg movements and eyeblinks are examples of; - ANS ✔✔avoidance behaviors
Children with disfluent speech may be helped by: - ANS ✔✔modification of activities that are
stressful to the child
When children are between 2-6 years of age, warning signs of a fluency disorder may include: -
ANS ✔✔repetitions of parts of words
During assessment of stuttering, direct testing of syntax, vocabulary, etc is undertaken because:
- ANS ✔✔other speech-language impairments can co-exist with stuttering
, Ratings of the severity of stuttering include; - ANS ✔✔all of the above
Parents can help improve a child's disfluent speech by: - ANS ✔✔using operant training models
A fluency disorder is most likely diagnosed by: - ANS ✔✔B and C
Treatment procedures that help a client better manage the moment of stuttering are called: -
ANS ✔✔stuttering modification
Any speech behavior that disrupts the flow of speech, such as a pause or interjection is called: -
ANS ✔✔disfluency
The number of times per second that the vocal folds vibrate is called: - ANS ✔✔fundamental
frequency
The perceptual correlate of intensity is: - ANS ✔✔loudness
The most common vocal lesion in children is: - ANS ✔✔vocal nodules
The sound produced by vocal fold vibration is: - ANS ✔✔voice
Spasticity, breathiness and glottal fry are examples of disorders of: - ANS ✔✔Phonatory quality
Aphonia or dysphonia caused by a psychological disturbance is an example of: - ANS
✔✔spasmodic dysphonia