Abstract
Stuttering anticipation is endorsed by many people who stutter as a core aspect of the stuttering experience. Anticipation is primarily a covert phenomenon and people who stutter respond to anticipation in a variety of ways. At the same time as anticipation occurs and develops internally, for many individuals the knowing or feeling that they are about to stutter is a primary contributor to the chronicity of the disorder. In this article, we offer a roadmap for both understanding the phenomenon of anticipation and its relevance to stuttering development. We introduce the Stuttering Anticipation Scale (SAS)-a 25-item clinical tool that can be used to explore a client's internal experience of anticipation to drive goal development and clinical decision making. We ground this discussion in a hypothetical case study of Ryan, a 14-year-old who stutters, to demonstrate how clinicians might use the SAS to address anticipation in therapy with young people who stutter.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 356-370 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Seminars in Speech and Language |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Stuttering
- Stuttering Anticipation Scale
- anticipation
- clinical decision making
- stuttering treatment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Speech and Hearing
- LPN and LVN