Chapter 3- Dev, Env. , Learning Factors Flashcards
True or False:
Research has found that kids can walk and talk at the same time!
FALSE!
Which of these statements is FALSE about development:
a) When kids are growing they are not having any difficulty putting attention to many different areas at one time.
b) There is some thinking that there may be interference in the brain as it is trying to handle all these factors.
c) Children have a more immature nervous system
d) Children have the language capacity but their motor system (articulators) can’t handle it yet to produce the words that fast.
A
There is an intense period of physical growth between _____ and _____ years of age.
1 - 6
True or False:
If a child is learning language concepts , learning new speech skills may be held up.
TRUE
True or False:
Those with cognitive problems have greater incidence of stuttering.
TRUE
Some suggest this is related to their slower learning of speech and language.
Starkweather found that all children have MORE disfluencies in times of ___________ and/or ___________.
EXCITEMENT and FEAR!
True or False:
Sometimes stuttering appears around the time that another sibling is born.
TRUE!
Which of these statements are TRUE about speech and language development:
a) Stuttering usually increases or begins during the intense growth spurts.
b) Children who do not have good phonological and language skills tend to recover from stuttering.
c) When the rate of speech increases, the accuracy decreases, because the brain can’t handle both at once!
d) a & c
D
What does Wendell Johnson’s Diagnosogenic Theory suggest?
- Stuttering can be influenced by environmental and emotional facts.
- This theory focuses on the PARENTS ROLE!
- This theory states that when a child has normal disfluencies and the parents react to these in a negative way , the child becomes anxious …EXACERBATING the stuttering.
What are some of the mixed results about parents of KWS?
- Moncur = Parents of KWS are more critical, protective and more domeenering.
- Darley= Parents of KWS had higher expectations and standards, especially regarding speech.
True or False:
If a child stutters, the parent has all of the blame for the stuttering.
FALSE!
Some parents have multiple children and some don’t stutter. If it were for their parenting style then all of the children would stutter
Van Riper suggested that if a children has more advance models to follow they may be too difficult, causing __________.
Disfluencies!
Crystal and Starkweather found that if the child uses more ________ language, stuttering _________.
a) simple , increased
b) complex, decreased
c) complex, increased
C
True or False:
Stuttering becomes worse- it is progressive
TRUE
True or False:
It is possible to condition a child to stutter.
TRUE
If a child has a normal dysfluency and there is criticism, he may be conditioned to tense up with the next normal dysfluency.
