Stuttering core behaviors and fluency disorder treatment approaches tested on the Praxis Speech-Language Pathology exam.
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- What are the three core behaviors of stuttering?
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Repetitions, prolongations, and blocks.- What is a repetition (as a stuttering core behavior)?
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Producing a sound, syllable, or word more than once before moving on.- What is a prolongation (as a stuttering core behavior)?
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An extended, audible stretching of a sound.- What is a block (as a stuttering core behavior)?
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An inappropriate stoppage of airflow or voicing during speech.- What is a part-word repetition?
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Repeating part of a word, such as a single sound or syllable.- What are secondary (accessory) behaviors in stuttering?
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Learned physical reactions used to escape or avoid a moment of stuttering, such as eye blinking or head jerking.- What is an avoidance behavior in stuttering?
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A strategy used to prevent an anticipated stutter, such as substituting a word.- At what age does stuttering typically begin?
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Between about 2 and 5 years old.- Are males or females more likely to stutter?
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Males, about 3 to 4 times more likely than females.- What percentage of children who begin stuttering are estimated to recover without treatment?
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About 75 to 80 percent.- Who proposed the diagnosogenic theory of stuttering?
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Wendell Johnson.- What does the diagnosogenic theory claim causes stuttering?
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Stuttering begins when a listener, often a parent, labels a child's normal disfluencies as stuttering.- What is the Demands and Capacities Model of stuttering?
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Stuttering results when environmental and communication demands exceed a child's capacities for fluent speech.- What is covert stuttering?
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Stuttering that a speaker actively hides through avoidance so it is not obvious to listeners.- How does cluttering differ from stuttering?
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Cluttering involves a rapid, irregular speech rate with excessive disfluencies, rather than the classic repetitions, prolongations, and blocks of stuttering.
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