COMD 500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intellectual Disability, Hypotonia, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
29 May 2017
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Characterized by stops, starts, and hesitations in the speech. Affect a relatively small number of people compared to other communication disorders: about 1-2% of the population is affected. Longest documented communication disorder in history: fluency: a descriptive term used to characterize the flow of speech during. Disturbance in the normal fluency and timing patterns. Disturbance in social communication, academic performance, or occupational achievement as a result of the fluency disturbance. Core vs secondary features: core features primary characteristics of the disorder. Block (stoppage of movement and airflow: secondary features secondary symptoms, secondary behaviors result from excessive mental and physical efforts to promote fluent speech and to disrupt disfluent speech. Avoidance behaviors and examples: word and sound avoidance: person changes the sound or word that s/he knows will likely be stuttered. I am from ch-ch- . the windy city: circumlocution. He told me, uh, when we met, uh, we were at the mall .
