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Assessment of Fluency Disorders

  • University of Memphis

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Abstract

Among the diverse speech and language disorders we work with as clinicians, fluency disorders seem to maintain a sense of ambiguity and challenge. We have certainly made great strides in understanding various potential causes of stuttering; nevertheless, a definitive notion of its etiology continues to elude researchers. By its very nature, stuttering is a condition of inherent contrasts. It involves surface features that are easily accessible for measurement and analysis, but is almost always complicated by a vast underlying set of emotions that are more difficult to label and organize but that are critical to our assessment and treatment. Sheehan (1970, p. 14) aptly described overt.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Guide to Clinical Assessment & Professional Report Writing in Speech-Language Pathology, Second Edition
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages295-334
Number of pages40
ISBN (Electronic)9781040138977
ISBN (Print)9781630913724
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2024

Keywords

  • accessory behaviors
  • avoidance behaviors
  • between-word disfluencies
  • blocks
  • broken words
  • clusters
  • cluttering
  • core behaviors
  • covert stuttering
  • disfluency
  • dysfluency
  • escape behaviors
  • incipient stuttering
  • interjections
  • locus of control of behavior
  • prolongations
  • real-time analysis
  • repetitions
  • revisions
  • running starts
  • spontaneous recovery
  • stutter-like disfluencies
  • tremors
  • within-word disfluencies

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