Communication Sciences and Disorders 4411A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Speech Disfluency, Prolongation, Cluttering
26 Dec 2018
School
Department
Professor
Document Summary
Effortless flow of speech: rate of speech, pauses in speech, stress of syllables/words, inflection/intonation of utterances, disfluency. Disruption or breakdown in flow of speech. Normal disfluency: everyone experiences minor interruptions in flow of speech at times. Be familiar with what is typical and atypical in developing a stutter. Interrupted flow of speech: repetitions or prolongations of sound/syllable/phrase, articulator posture and bodily posture are affected, who disorder of rhythm of speech, they know what they want to say but can"t say it. I"m tiiiiiimy thompson : silent/tense pause (known as a block) I want a i want a ice cream cone . He went to the uh circus : um or ahhh, revision or incomplete phrase. Secondary characteristics: develop overtime due to stuttering, bodily movements/struggle (coping mechanisms or cues to help with stuttering difficulties, facial grimaces blinking eyes, distorting mouth, head movements looking away, body movements excessive leg movement.
