CETP VOICE DISORDERS KEY CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION EXAM 2026 TEST PAPER
◉ Fluent. Answer: Effortless flow of speech.
◉ Stuttering. Answer: Disturbance in the normal flow and time
patterning of speech characterized by one or more of the following:
audible or silent blocks; sound, syllable, or word repetitions; sound
prolongations; interjections; broken words; circumlocutions; or
sounds and words produced with excessive tension.
◉ Audible overt behaviors (core behaviors). Answer: Observable
involuntary interruptions in speech that are characteristics of the
disorder, including repetition of sounds, syllables, and words,
prolongation of sounds, silent blocks.
◉ Secondary stuttering behaviors. Answer: Extraneous sounds,
facial and body movements that a person who stutters uses during
moments of stuttering, such as repetition of uh and ums, eye blinks,
and unusual head and other body part movements.
◉ Warning signs of stuttering. Answer: Difficulty getting words
started, fear of speaking, looking away when speech is disrupted,
disturbed or irregular breathing, repetition of phrases, extraneous
sounds and words, tense rising of pitch and loudness, blocking on
, sound or word, struggle and tension in the face, use of schwa vowel
before or in words, prolongations of sounds, multiple repetitions of
sounds or words.
◉ Covert reactions to stuttering. Answer: General information about
stuttering including incidence, age of onset, male-female ratio,
family history of stuttering, stuttering and other speech and
language disorders, physiological characteristics, brain function and
stuttering, cognitive and personality characteristics.
◉ Breakdown theories. Answer: Theories that attribute the disorder
to the effects of early environmental stress.
◉ Characteristics of cluttering. Answer: Rapid rate, sound or syllable
deletion, inappropriate word segmentation, excessively dysrhythmic
or monotone speech, excessively garbled or ungrammatical syntax,
insertion of a very high number of inappropriate words or sounds.
◉ Fluency evaluation primary questions. Answer: Is the child
stuttering or at risk for stuttering? Does the child exhibit any other
communicative risk factors or impairments? Is therapy for stuttering
warranted? Which therapy approach would be most beneficial?
◉ Fluency shaping therapy. Answer: Attempts to directly train
individuals to speak with relaxed respiration, relaxed vocal folds,
and relaxed articulatory muscles and structures.
EVALUATION EXAM 2026 TEST PAPER
◉ Fluent. Answer: Effortless flow of speech.
◉ Stuttering. Answer: Disturbance in the normal flow and time
patterning of speech characterized by one or more of the following:
audible or silent blocks; sound, syllable, or word repetitions; sound
prolongations; interjections; broken words; circumlocutions; or
sounds and words produced with excessive tension.
◉ Audible overt behaviors (core behaviors). Answer: Observable
involuntary interruptions in speech that are characteristics of the
disorder, including repetition of sounds, syllables, and words,
prolongation of sounds, silent blocks.
◉ Secondary stuttering behaviors. Answer: Extraneous sounds,
facial and body movements that a person who stutters uses during
moments of stuttering, such as repetition of uh and ums, eye blinks,
and unusual head and other body part movements.
◉ Warning signs of stuttering. Answer: Difficulty getting words
started, fear of speaking, looking away when speech is disrupted,
disturbed or irregular breathing, repetition of phrases, extraneous
sounds and words, tense rising of pitch and loudness, blocking on
, sound or word, struggle and tension in the face, use of schwa vowel
before or in words, prolongations of sounds, multiple repetitions of
sounds or words.
◉ Covert reactions to stuttering. Answer: General information about
stuttering including incidence, age of onset, male-female ratio,
family history of stuttering, stuttering and other speech and
language disorders, physiological characteristics, brain function and
stuttering, cognitive and personality characteristics.
◉ Breakdown theories. Answer: Theories that attribute the disorder
to the effects of early environmental stress.
◉ Characteristics of cluttering. Answer: Rapid rate, sound or syllable
deletion, inappropriate word segmentation, excessively dysrhythmic
or monotone speech, excessively garbled or ungrammatical syntax,
insertion of a very high number of inappropriate words or sounds.
◉ Fluency evaluation primary questions. Answer: Is the child
stuttering or at risk for stuttering? Does the child exhibit any other
communicative risk factors or impairments? Is therapy for stuttering
warranted? Which therapy approach would be most beneficial?
◉ Fluency shaping therapy. Answer: Attempts to directly train
individuals to speak with relaxed respiration, relaxed vocal folds,
and relaxed articulatory muscles and structures.
