Cluttering

The Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering–Adults (OASES–A), is a self-report that measures the impact of stuttering on a person’s life in various situations. The OASES–A instrument will provide valuable information about Mr. Smith’s feelings, attitudes, and self-awareness in regards to his stuttering and cluttering. Mr. Smith revealed an overall total score of 3.06, a moderate-to-severe impact rating, signifying that he may not speak fluently or communicate easily in most speaking situations, exhibit notable physical tension during stuttered speech. Additionally, he may avoid communicating in specific situations, and experience significant limitation in the ability to communicate his needs and wants. The Stuttering Severity…

Before listening to the stories of “Recovered” People who Stutter (PWS), I thought I had a basic understanding of what stuttering was, the feelings that pertained to stuttering, and the treatment techniques that Speech-Language Pathologists used in therapy. The following speakers, I chose to listen to, were panelists at ASHA Conventions through the years 1996-2011: Kristin Chemela, Barry Guitar, Lawerence Molt, William Murphy, Lois Nelson, and David Shapiro. Listening to these panelists greatly…

Megan Washington first confessed to having a speech impairment in 2014 at a TedX conference in Sydney. She had grown up with her parents and sister, living in Papua New Guinea since her birth in 1986. At the age of 10 Washington moved to Brisbane with her family where she spent most of her highschool years. Within this period of her life Megan Washington developed a stutter, which she hid from the world as she followed her dreams to become a world known singer. Her speech is being presented at a…

Stuttering exists across linguistic and cultural groups in both monolingual and bilingual speakers. In the United States, diversity is the new majority made up of a kaleidoscope of racial and ethnic minorities. Inherent in these cultural groups are personal attitudes toward disability, communicative disorders, and stuttering. Culture and language are closely intertwined as they represent ways in how individuals perceive, understand, and interact with the world. With this rise in ethnically…

Integrated Approach Advance Stuttering Individuals with advanced stuttering are usually older adolescents or adults who have been stuttering for many years. Susan is 18 years of age. (Guitar, 2014, p. 290) Her pattern are well entrenched and consist of blocks, repetitions, and prolongations that are usually accompanied by tension and struggle. There are also escape and avoidance behaviors. (Guitar, 2014, p. 290) Susan has developed negative anticipations about speaking situations and…

The definition of pride per Webster’s dictionary is, “a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements.” Pride is something that took Anita Bloom thirty years to accomplish as she stutters. Today she is an international speaker, vice chair of the European League of Stuttering Associations, a member of the advisory board for the International Stuttering Association, and she has her own stuttering consultant company. It took her over thirty years to be proud of her…

It is always eye opening to watch and read things that are through the perspective of a person who stutters. Having grown up with a classmate who stuttered with a really great school SLP gave me a different perspective. In school we learned that our just needed a little more time to say what he wanted to say and if he was having a really hard time he would sing it, there was a lot of singing going on in our classroom. The school SLP pushed in to our classroom all the time to teach us to be…

Stuttering is a speech disorder that involves significant problems with the normal fluency of speech. Fluency is a component of speech production that “refers to the smoothness, rate, and effort of speech” (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, p. 1). Stuttering is an interruption in the flow of speaking in which “sounds, syllables, or words are repeated or prolonged, disrupting the rate and rhythm of speech” (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 2014, p. 1).…

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Lastly, there are many individuals who are part of the treatment plan for individuals who stutter. Some examples are numerous kinds of doctors, educators, psychologists or social workers, and speech and language pathologists (SLPs). For doctors, they may be there simply to make referrals to the appropriate personnel so that the individual can be provided with more extensive treatment. Nonetheless, they play an important role in recognizing that a problem may exist. Subsequently, educators also…