SLHS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wendell Johnson, Speech Disfluency, List Of Voice Disorders
21 Feb 2017
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22 typically developing orphans treated as if they have poor fluency disorder. Components to speech: breath: breath disorder, articulation: artic/phon. disorder, resonance: voice disorder, fluency: fluency disorder. What is fluency: speech with appropriate. Interjection: revision, disflue(cid:374)cies do(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)ays det(cid:396)act f(cid:396)o(cid:373) co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)icati(cid:448)e (cid:395)uality. What is a fluency disorder: speech with an unusually high rate of disfluencies that disrupts the flow of communication. Stuttering like disfluencies: speech that hinders social communication or educational/occupational performance. Stuck on first part of word, repeat many times. Prevlence and incidence: prevalence of stuttering. 1% over life time (people who stutter for more than 6 months) 3:1 at onset, 7:1 in adolescence (males more likely) females are more likely to recover: family history. 60-70% have positive family history for stuttering: recovery. 4 years post-onset, about 75% recover from stuttering. Developmental and environmental factors that can influence stuttering. Assessment of stuttering: questionnaire, case history, systematic observation. Referral: warning signs for developmental fluency disorders.
