After hearing this short speech, I analyzed John Moore’s topic “Fluent Talk on Stuttering” and gained some knowledge to what he was trying to impact us with. He wants us to know that adult stutterers can minimize their stubborn talk with different methods to speak more fluently with others. I believe this is essential to know for a variety of reasons. Only one percent of the world’s adult population stutter, including him, and can damage those who do in many ways. This vital information can help adult stutterers with the consequences they face such as emotions they undergo, the perception from others as they hear, and above all the words they find difficult to pronounce.…
Carl could no longer talk, read, or write which is indication of Broca’s Aphasia. Broca’s Aphasia is a communication disorder affecting the ability of speech production and language comprehension. Post-stroke, he demonstrates substantial sentence production errors [agramatism], confusion of language content, and complications with language form. A Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) will assess the severity of his aphasia, develop treatment plans, and educate Carl’s family to enhance a healthy recovery. When given a year and a half to fully mend, he hoped for further improvement post-stroke.…
Hoagland’s “ On Stuttering” This essay was exceedingly interesting; at the heart of this essay, is a person who has struggled with a physical impediment, but has still managed to lead a fairly normal life. Although He struggled with the impediment to the point of not voicing his own opinion, Edward Hoagland adapted to his impediment and was able to overcome the struggles he faced everyday. Some disabilities can leave people trapped inside their own body.…
Undoubtedly, over a short period of time the group that was told that they stutter began to stutter even worse than before. Some, even those who did not stutter beforehand, were now stuttering and very cautious of their speech. The effects of this experiment proved to be truly adverse upon the children and has caused them serious trouble, as demonstrated when “Tudor asked whether her best friend knew about her ‘stuttering,’ Korlaske muttered, ‘No.’ ‘Why not?’ Korlaske shuffled her feet.…
Pre-Course IPE Paper Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists are two professions that must work with many different professions across the many different settings—hospitals, clinics, or schools. The first assigned reading brings many questions up about Speech Pathologists and Audiologists working with other health-care professions. Ultimately, the goal of each profession working with each other is the health and well-being of the patient.…
While watching the film about Wendell Johnson’s stutter study, the sad music and emotional pictures had a bigger impact on me than the picture of the statistical chart. The difference in presentation of the two gave the audience a faulty perception of the accuracy of the statistics versus the film. The emotional…
Secondary/overt/concomitant stuttering behaviors occur as the individual is stuttering and are displayed as unnecessary sounds and facial/body movements such as the repetition of “um”, blinking of the eyes, and movement of body parts. Audible behaviors denote the stuttering behaviors that can be heard and are repeated one or more times and occur with tension. A few examples of audible stuttering…
On January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, a baby boy was born to parents who would end up being more absent than present in his life. At the tender age of 5, the boy moved to Jackson, Michigan to be raised by his grandparents on their farm. The change of life from Mississippi to Michigan was so disturbing for the young boy that he developed a stuttering problem. Upon entering school, his stutter became worse, causing him to become self-conscious and shy around his peers. It progressed to the point where the boy decided to stop talking at school altogether to protect himself from the harsh scrutiny of his classmates.…
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.…
My nephew growing up, struggled with stuttering, having a slight lisp, and the challenge of talking too fast for others to understand. There were times that he refrained from speaking or reading out loud, usually in classroom situations, due to his speech impediments. While at school he saw a speech-language pathologist who helped him with his speech difficulties and I cannot express how influential that was. She corrected his stuttering problem as well as his minor lisp. Ever since, I became intrigued with the field of speech-language pathology.…
Each day a PWS needs to communicate to get a desired item, ask a question, convey an idea, or merely introduce themselves, they may endure widespread hardships. The degree of the stutter may differ from person to person just as the impact of the stutter has on each individual. Altogether, this assignment has allowed me to put myself in the shoes of a PWS and I feel more sympathetic towards them completely.…
This group of 40 was then divided into a test and control group. The test group received training on conversation techniques to better reveal the competence of those with aphasia. Testing included practicing keeping…
Informal assessment revealed L.R.’s language comprehension to be adequate for social communication purposes. His lexical diversity, syntactic knowledge and use were judged to be age-appropriate. The Stuttering Severity Instrument-4 (SSI-4) was administered to formally assess L.R.’s fluency. L.R. received a total overall score of 29, which places him in the 78th – 88th percentile, and indicates a severe fluency disorder.…
I feel like in today’s day and age everyone is being prescribed with ADHD, I know at least half of my grade ‘has’ this and most of them don’t really have it. A lot of them had been prescribed with this in elementary school when really it was just everyone acting like they’re supposed to as a child. I know my best friend was told her and her two other siblings had it as a child but they really didn’t…
Since I know myself, I have been drowning in self-pity and stupidity, hoping that my pain will someday come rescue me. But the problem was, there was no pain. I thought I had the worst problem in the world, but when I recognized that what I was going through was nothing compared to what others are through, I realized that my own problem was nothing close to the worst. Since then my attitude towards the subject has changed.…