SLT 515
Voicing and Fluency Disorders
2 Unit(s) (LH 30)
Course Description
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. list types of voice disorders;
2. itemise the characteristics of voice disorders;
3. state causes of voice disorders;
4. illustrate procedures for management of voice disorders;
5. explain what fluency disorders are;
6. list types of fluency disorders;
7. discuss some psychosocial problems associated with fluency disorders; and
8. describe therapeutic procedures for correcting fluency disorders.
Course Outline
Definitions of voice disorders. Types of voice disorders. Diseases and malformation of larynx and
pharynx resulting in voice disorders. Alaryngeal speech characteristics. Assessment of voice
disorders. Therapies for voice disorders. Definitions of fluency disorders- stuttering/stammering.
Types of voice disorders. Causes of fluency disorders. Characteristics of fluency disorders. Social
and emotional problems associated with fluency disorders. Assessment of fluency disorder.
Therapies of fluency disorder.