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What body part is used to vibrate to make speech sounds?
Vocal Folds
What part of the body is used to open and close the mouth for speech sound production?
Lips
What part of the body is used to tell the other parts of the body what to do?
Brain
What part of the body moves around inside the mouth to help make speech sounds?
Tongue
What part of the body takes in air and pushes the air out through the vocal folds?
Lungs
What type of disfluency is described by repeating parts of words or phrases?
Repetitions
What type of disfluency is described by holding out a sound for longer than usual?
Prolongations
What type of disfluency is described when speech and/or sometimes all airflow is stopped, like you are stuck?
Block
This type of fluency strategy is used when you touch your lips and tongue together very gently as you speak
Light Contact
This type of fluency strategy is used when you start your airflow before you speak
Easy Onset or Easy Start
This type of fluency strategy is when you reduce your rate of speech so you are speaking slower than usual
Slow speech
This type of fluency strategy is when you group words together and pause between sets of words
Pausing
This type of stutter modification is when you have bumpy speech, finish your word and then try again after pausing and taking a breath.
Cancellations
This type of stutter modification is when you start to have bumpy speech, stop in the middle of the stutter and start again.
Pull Out
This type of fluency strategy is when you stretch your words out so they are long and smooth
Stretchy speech
This type of fluency strategy is when you tap out or clap out the syllables of each word you are saying
Beat Speech
