Fluency

Voluntary stuttering can be useful in desensitization both to the actual stuttering behavior and to aversive listener reactions.

• true

• false

The shaping of normally fluent speech would include all of the following EXCEPT:

• Establishing normal breath flow

• Light contact

• Slowing rate

• Using preparatory sets and pull-outs

In the Lidcombe program, parents: 

• Reinforce fluent speech during structured and unstructured activities using verbal contigencies

• Use cancellations, pull-outs, and preparatory sets

• Use light articulatory contact, easy onsets, and continuous phonation

• Use more requests for correction than praise

Those who emphasize "Fluency Shaping" would give very little attention to teaching the person who stutters to use ___________________ to achieve fluency:

• Cancellations

• Light articulatory contact

• 
  Slow rate

• Easy onsets

Before the client is ready to work on "preparatory sets" they must already have succeeded with pull-outs.

• true

• false

Desensitization generally begins with situations that are most aversive and stressful, then gradually works backward to situations that are least aversive and stressful.

• true

• false

Persons who stutter often experience more severe disfluency when they:

• sing

• are in a stressful situation

• use delayed auditory feedback

• all of the above

Which of the following is arranged from least to most severe?

• repeating, blocking, fixating

• repeating, blocking, prolonging

• fixating, repeating, prolonging

• repeating, prolonging, blocking

• repeating, avoiding, struggling

During cancellation, the client should immediately stop at the first sign of stuttering, then say the word as easily and fluently as possible.

• true

• false

Modification techniques should be taught to the client in the following order:

• Pull-Out --> Preparatory Set --> Cancellation

• Cancellation --> Pull-Out --> Preparatory Set

• Preparatory Set --> Cancellation --> Pull Out

• Cancellation --> Preparatory Set --> Pull Out

• Pull-Out --> Cancellation --> Preparatory Set