SPA-2001 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Speech Disfluency, Motor Speech Disorders, Congenital Disorder

• School: FSU
• Department: Communication Science and Disorders
• Course: SPA-2001
• Professor: susanmaddox

Document Summary

Define fluency disorder: describes some sort of communication pattern that contains dis/dysfluencies, dysrhythmic speech. Understand the fluency continuum : hyperfluent: fast paced and typicaly no fillers such as um or like. Typical disflueny includes whole word repetitions, interjections, and syllable repetitions. Then there is people with stuttering or completely disfluent. Define stuttering: a disruption of the normal flow of speech. When is stuttering present? when there is inappropriate pauses/hesitations, words or phrases repeated 3x or more, sense of loss of control, or inappropriate prolongation of sounds. List and define the three communication dimensions: efficiencies: how easily, quickly, and rhythmically a person can move forward with speech. Assertiveness: responding to teasing, comments about speech, and handling situations. Understand types/examples of normal-type disfluencies: whole word repetitions, phrase repetitions, restarts, and interjections/fillers. Understand types/examples of stuttered-type disfluencies: part word repetitions, audible sound prolongations, silent blocks/holding onto a sound silently, broken words, abnormal hesitations, whole word or phrase repetitions that 3x or beyond.