Quiz 6 Flashcards
Therapy that works directly on the child’s speech by having him or her speak more fluently, stutter more easily, or both
Direct treatment
A very mild type of stuttering characterized by slow and relaxed repetitions or prolongations of sounds that are brief and smooth. This can be a target of direct treatment, with the goal being to change stuttering into normal disfluency.
Easy stuttering
Therapy that involves alleviating stresses that the child might be experiencing in communication at home and in other situations
Indirect treatment
The process of fading treatment while continuing to support the child and family so that fluency achieved in treatment does not diminish
Maintenance
A period of about 15 minutes each day during which one parent is alone with the child and follows the child’s lead in play and conversation. In this time, parents can practice new behaviors such as using a slower speech rate with pauses, and children can experience their parent’s full attention.
One-on-one time
This is one measure of stuttering frequency that is often used as data to determine how much a child is stuttering at a particular time.
Percentage syllables stuttered
Pretending to stutter in a way that deliberately changes some aspect of the stutter, such as how many repetitions are produced. This activity is thought to decrease the child’s frustration and fear of stuttering and thus reduce tension and struggle.
Playing with stuttering
A child’s natural fluency that occurs without work or thought on his part
Spontaneous fluency
What is the age range that is considered as younger preschool children?
2-3.5 years
What should stuttering treatment for younger preschool children be like?
Indirectly changing the environment to decrease stress which can help with spontaneous recovery. Should not focus on giving awareness to the child that they stutter
What are examples of stuttering goals for younger preschool children?
Family members speak slowly with pauses, reduce the parent’s anxiety about their child’s stuttering, reduce the child’s alarm to stuttering, reduce general stress felt by the child
Indirect treatment for younger preschoolers is effective in how many sessions?
5 - 6 sessions over 1 - 2 months
Effective maintenance for stuttering in younger preschool children is the result of what two things?
(1) helping the family to view the child’s stuttering more objectively with less anxiety, guilt, or panic and (2) building the family’s confidence in their own ability to implement problem-solving skills they’ve learned to use when the child’s disfluencies increase.
What is the goal of playing with stuttering?
Desensitize the child to the frustration that sometimes arises in more severe borderline stuttering.
Therapy that uses video feedback to help parents identify interaction styles that support their children’s fluency and then develop these styles in structured practice sessions at home.
Palin-Centre Parent-Child Interaction therapy
