SLHS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Speech Disfluency, Stuttering, Self-Awareness
21 Oct 2016
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Ability to produce speech effortlessly and automatically is compromised. A disruption in any of the elements above. Not every disfluency is considered a disorder. Articulators and airflow completely stop during the production of a sound. Can i come with you? c . Word and sound avoidance substitution , circumvolution, postponers. Negative feelings toward communication fear , embarrassment, shame. For the majority of children, stuttering begins for no apparent reason. Hard to identify, because results from complex interactions of 2 types of factors. Individuals constitutional factors that make him susceptible to a fluency disorder. Boys are more likely to develop a fluency disorder and slower to recover. Difficulty in coordinating and timing the motor activities required for fluent speech. Developmental and environmental factors that can worsen stuttering. Average age of emergence is 3 years for boys and 2. 5 years for girls. Aware of their disfluencies etiology -focused classifications. Emerges in early childhood (2-5 years) and cause is unknown.
