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Treatment of stuttering should emanate logically from what?
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Theory (formal or informal) because multiple factors contribute to the disorder varying across clients
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A number of theories originated from what?
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Layperson or clinician hunches
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If treatment works, what does not matter? (Van Riper)
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Why (pragmatic approach)
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An eclectic program represents what?
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Different philosophies and methods
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Why is having research support/ having a theoretical framework/ knowing why important?
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It is difficult to provide clients with a rationale/ interferes with therapy.
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The theory-therapy link is only as good as the ____
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Therapy itself
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What is the advantage of a theory-therapy linkage?
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Provides the clinician with a frame of reference and a rationale for the therapeutic approach, an understanding of why specific procedures fail to occur, and a logical basis for sensible alternatives when progress fails to occur
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The field suffers from large gaps in what?
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Stuttering therapies and theories because of the narrowness of the theories
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What does the weak theory-therapy connection in stuttering during the past 30 years reflect an absence of?
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A strong theory accepted by scientists and understood by the public
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The longer the stuttering history, the greater their _____
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Experience with the disorder
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There is substantial commonalities among all 3 age groups in respects to what?
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General therapeutic aims for long-term goal (increased fluency, reduced severity in stuttering events, and improved emotional adjustment
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Naturally fluent speech
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Produced by speakers who feel, think, and behave like normally speaking individuals
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What population is a complete cure realistic for?
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Preschool
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What does substantial improvement indicate?
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That speech therapy can alter the brain activity of PWS
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Deliberately fluent speech
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Produced by the speaker who exercises a conscious mental and/or behavioral monitoring of speech that normally fluent speakers usually do not use
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