SPHHRNG 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Delayed Auditory Feedback, Speech Disfluency, Neurodevelopmental Disorder
14 Feb 2017
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Stuttering is the most common fluency disorder. Only a few children stutter their entire lives. The average onset of stuttering is 2-5 years old. The best listener response is to maintain eye contact. Stuttering has no associated language or speech or cognitive problems. Treatment can work even in adults because they have the ability to moify and evaluate their patterns of speaking to improve fluency. All speakers have some sort of disfluency: word/ phrase repetitions, hesitations, interjections. At age three: children repeat words/ phrases. At age 4 : repeat things only when they want to repeat things. Interruptions from sound to sound and word to word. Sound prolongations are more frequent in stuttering children with earlier onset. 3% syllable stutters in normally developing children. Struggle and tension while attempting to speak. Children who showed more signs of disfluency a year after onset will outgrow their stuttering. Tense up, blink, wanting other people to make phone calls for them.
