Exam 4: Where Does Stuttering End What Are Its Advanced Characteristics

Which of the following is not a true statement about the relationship between stuttering and intellectual abilities:

What is meant by stuttering loci? How is the knowledge of such loci useful in the context of clinical assessment and treatment?

Stuttering in adults is more likely to occur on words beginning with consonants than with vowels.

Describe the emotional and cognitive dimensions of the stuttering disorder that develop as stuttering persists from preschool to school age.

There are minimal differences between people who stutter and normally fluent speakers in the frequency of this disfluency type:

In which of the following situations would you expect a stutterer to stutter most?

The terms "stuttering" and "disfluency" should not be equated. Explain the differences. What factors may influence the differences?

Regarding typical locations of stuttering, research has shown all the following features are related to an increased probability of stuttering, except for:

The stuttering "adaptation effect" refers to:

In which of the following situations would you expect a stutterer to stutter most?

Which of the following is not one of Brown's four main factors that increases the chance for a word to be stuttered?

In regards to stuttering, the term "core behaviors" refers to:

Name and describe at least 3 ameliorating conditions of stuttering. Compare and contrast the level and nature of their effects on stuttering.

Which of the following is not classified as a stuttering-like disfluency?

Stuttering is more likely to occur on unstressed than stressed syllables within words.

The frequency of these disfluencies correlates the highest with listeners' perceptions of stuttering severity:

Hypnotic suggestion has never been observed to induce a reduction in stuttering.

Compare and contrast the features of advanced stuttering and early stuttering.