Fluency Disorders & Treatments

A clinician evaluates the speech of a 5-year-old child with a phonological disorder. The child is not intelligible to her kindergarten teacher and is placed in therapy to improve her intelligibility. Assuming that this child uses the phonological process of consonant-cluster reduction, which of the following is the word you would most likely put on a word list used for treatment?

• School

• Bus

• Recess

• Shin

Toni comes to you for an evaluation. According to her mother, Toni has a history of middle ear infections. Her mother reports that Toni is quite difficult to understand. For example, according to her mother, she says things like dut for duck, and tup for cup. This child is manifesting the phonological process of

• Backing

• Fronting

• Gliding

• Vowelization

You find that Crystal uses a number of phonological processes. One of these processes is stopping. You know this when you hear her make such an error as...

• tee/see

• bu/bus

• boad/boat

• pell/spell

The fluent stuttering treatment

• was developed by Van Riper and aims at reduced abnormality of stuttering

• was developed by Johnson and aims at reduced abnormality of stuttering

• was developed by Van Riper and seeks to eliminate stuttering and achieve normally fluent speech

A person who stutters is more likely to stutter on which of the following: Articles like the, a, an; The last syllable of a word; The last word in a sentence; The initial sound or syllable of the first word in a sentence.

• Articles like the, a, an

• The last syllable of a word

• The last word in a sentence

• The initial sound or syllable of the first word in a sentence

Which of the following are more typical dysfluencies (something normal speakers who do not stutter may do?): hesitations and fillers; blocks and silent prolongations; sound repetitions and rapid eye blinking; syllable repetitions and blocks.

• hesitations and fillers

• blocks and silent prolongations

• sound repetitions and rapid eye blinking

• syllable repetitions and blocks

The diagnostic process for speech sound disorders and fluency disorders begin with: Case history; Diagnostic testing; Language Sample; Observation.

• Case history

• Diagnostic testing

• Language Sample

• Observation

Stuttering and cluttering are the same. True or False?

• True

• False

In order to render a diagnosis of stuttering, secondary behaviors must be present. True or False?

• True

• False

Males stutter more than females. True or False?

• True

• False