Stuttering

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…

We have all experienced stuttering in one form or another. The nervous anxiety we feel before giving a presentation, getting ready for your first big interview, or even just a simple phone call can trigger the onset of stuttering. Stuttering, stammering, or childhood onset fluency disorder is a speech disorder that disrupts the normal flow of speech. A normal flow of speech includes seamless continuity, sound rate of speech, overall rhythm, and how much effort it takes for one to talk. A…

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…

Ninja Turtle, is a bilingual 13-year old male, who was brought into the University Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic (USLHC) for a fluency evaluation in 2012. Parental concerns arose when Ninja began stuttering while attending pre-kindergarten at the early age of four. Parents report that after stuttering was first noticed, his stuttering remained constant. Additionally, parents indicated that stuttering was present in the maternal side of the family. Prior to the fluency evaluation by USLHC,…

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).…

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…

There are many theories surrounding stuttering. Nonetheless, it’s important to recognize that, in most cases, the etiology behind one’s stuttering is multifactorial. This means that no one theory fully explains one’s stuttering. With that being said, Fogle believes that there are 3 theories of stuttering, such as breakdown theory, repressed need theory, and the anticipatory struggle behavior theory. In the breakdown theory, the “onset of stuttering attribute the disorder to the effects of early…

While the cause has remained somewhat of an enigma, persistent stuttering exhibits distinct behavioral, neural and genetic characteristics. Throughout many years, a variety of treatments have attempted to ameliorate overt stuttering behaviors; however, most therapeutic options provide unstable, effortful, and/or unnatural sounding results with high relapse rates. Recent research suggests second speech signals provide natural sounding speech coupled with stable and effortless reductions in overt…

Introduction The purpose of the study was to find what the prevalence and incidence of stuttering in the participants, what characteristics of stuttering the children who are hard of hearing, comparing the hearing, speech, and language abilities in children who stutter and children who do not, and the underlying differences of children who stutter and are at risk of persisting into adulthood versus children who have recovered (Arenas et. al., 2017). The study suggested that the prior study…

Developmental or Acquired Condition. The problem is a developmental condition. Geoff began stuttering around the age of 3 years old, which would come and go, with periods of fluency that lasted 2 months. Because of these fluency periods, Geoff’s parents believed it would go away with time and therefore wasn’t seen by an SLP until he was 13. It was then that he was diagnosed with severe stuttering. Geoff’s stuttering is classified as developmental because the onset occurred between ages 2-5, and…