What is a Fluency Disorder?
- FLUENCY is the aspect of speech production that refers to the continuity, smoothness, rate, and/or effort with which phonologic, lexical, morphologic, and/or syntactic language units are spoken. This is often called stuttering or disfluent speech.
- A FLUENCY DISORDER is a “speech disorder” characterized by deviations in continuity, smoothness, rhythm, and/or effort with which phonologic, lexical, morphologic, and/or syntactic language units are spoken. (http://www.asha.org/policy/GL1999-00063.htm)