Emma
Emma is almost five years old, and she began stuttering at age three years. Her mother is a person who stutters and her younger brother is also exhibiting some stuttering. She demonstrates mostly sound-syllable repetitions, occasional blocks, and some repetitive / starter phrases (“and so, and so…”). Also, her mother reported their daughter’s stuttering as “coming and going,” primarily in the form of repeating the first word of a phrase (“can can can we go”) or (“cuh cuh cuh can I go”), and an upward trend of the stuttering becoming more frequent and tense since the onset. Emma has stuttered to produce words vowels in (initial, middle, and final). Her mother says not to worry, that older sibling also went through this stage, but her mother is worried that the stuttering might interfere with Emma’s interactions with the other children and that it might be related to the tantrums.
Description of Adult Client
Phil
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His brain scans showed that his left hemisphere was almost entirely dark (this means a lot of brain tissue had died). He has aphasia that effect on him and his wife had been very frustrated with his therapy and with their inability to communicate with each other. Phil had been a very social person, and he could no longer participate in his favorite social activities because he had Wernicke’s aphasia. He could only say a few stereotypical phrases, such as “well, sh**”, “something wonderful”, “sometimes I walk”, and “sometimes water”. He did not recognize that he said these things, but he had a great sense of humor and was persistent and