Max Is a 13-Year-Old Boy Who Stutters

question 9

Multiple Choice

Max is a 13-year-old boy who stutters. He is participating in speech therapy. His goal in therapy is to develop deliberately fluent speech. Which of the following statements best describes his goal?

• A)Max wants to develop speech that is indistinguishable from the speech of children his age who have never stuttered
• B)Max wants to learn strategies to reduce (but probably not eliminate) disfluencies in his speech.
• C)Max wants to learn cognitive coping strategies to help him deal with anxiety associated with stuttering.
• D)Max knows that with considerable effort and practice, he will be able to overcome his stuttering.

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