SHS 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Speech Disfluency, Etiology

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Speech and Hearing Science
• Course: SHS 170
• Professor: Mudar

Document Summary

Fluent speech: ability to move the speech production apparatus in n effortless, smooth, and rapid manner, results in a continuous, uninterrupted forward flow of speech. Normal disfluency: children are not born as fluent speakers, fluency requires physical maturation and language experiences, children exhibit hesitations, interruptions, and revisions in their utterance (disfluencies, age 2. Stuttering: involuntary repetitions of sounds and syllables, sound prolongations, broken words, incidence: 1% of the population, age of onset: 90% between 2 to 7 years; 10% after 7 years, male-female ratio: more in boys than in girls. 3-4 males to 1 female who stutters: family history: 50% have a relative who stuttered. Part word repetition: sound or syllable repetition at the (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs of wo(cid:396)ds (cid:894)e(cid:454). (cid:862)m(cid:373)(cid:373)(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:373)(cid:373)(cid:455)(cid:455)(cid:863) Monosyllabic whole-word repetition: repetition of e(cid:374)ti(cid:396)e wo(cid:396)d (cid:894)e(cid:454). (cid:862)i i i i(cid:863)(cid:895) Prolongations of sounds and syllables: inappropriate lengthening of sounds and syllables. Blocks: articulators in place but no sound is produced for.