Fluency, Voice, Cleft Palate, and more

Which answer identifies "associated" or "secondary" behavors related to stuttering?

• Motor behaviors (i.e., eye blinking, nose wrinkling)

• Muscular tension in throat, jaw, chest, shoulders, stomach

• Circumlocution: talking around a particular word instead of saying it

• All of the answers

This is the definition of the fluency disorder called "stuttering"

• Frequent dysfluencies or dysfluencies of long duration when talking

• Difficulties with sentence formation during oral communication

• Substitution of one sound/word for another when explaining something

• Frequent dysfluencies or dysfluencies of long duration accompanied by rapid, disordered articulation and disorganized thought

What is vocal fold adduction?

• Having an extra set of vocal folds

• When vocal folds are closed or almost closed

• When vocal folds are open

• The process of adding material to the vocal folds for improved function

Vocal fold paralysis, laryngeal tumor, and absent laryngeal structures fall into this category

• Medical voice disorders

• Behavioral voice disorders

• Functional voice disorders

• Organic voice disorders

Oh no! My voice is gone! I must have:

When a speech sound is made with correct placement, but is distorted due to an anatomical issue

• articulation error

• obligatory distortion

• compensatory misarticulation

• resonance disorder

 A person changes the place or manner of sound production in response to their malformed anatomy

• compensatory misartiiculation

• obligatory distortion

• an educated guess

• error of mislearning

Oral speech sounds being produced with too much nasal acoustic energy

This type of resonance occurs when there is too little nasal energy when producing nasal sounds

• nasal emission

• cul-de-sac resonance

• hypernasality

• hyponasality

Babies with cleft palate have difficulty bottle/breast feeding due to

• mothers not producing enough breastmilk

• swallowing disorders

• not liking the taste of what they're being fed

• inability to build up negative oral pressure to produce a suck