Teaching · Speech & Language

Tap each moment, and the percentages count themselves.

Choose the setting and task, enter the syllables in the sample and tap a counter for each repetition, prolongation, block or interjection you hear. The summary gives percent of syllables stuttered and the mix of disfluency types for this sample, ready to compare with the next one.

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The disfluency log

One record per sample. Several samples a week, in different settings, give a truer picture. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & Language$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each sample, counts of every disfluency type, the longest repetition and block, physical concomitants, avoidance and the student’s reaction, with percent syllables stuttered and the stuttering-like share.
Who it is for
School speech-language pathologists and graduate clinicians taking fluency samples, and teachers who help gather classroom samples.
Format
Browser log with tap counters. Several saved records; printed with the summary or as a blank tally sheet; CSV with one row per sample; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Speech & Language toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Speech & Language space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
Drawn for this page. Each moment of stuttering, a repetition or a block, gets one tally mark, counted against the syllables spoken.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the sample date.
  2. Choose the setting and the speaking task.
  3. Listen to the sample, live or recorded, and tap a counter for each moment.
  4. Count or estimate the syllables in the sample and note the longest repetition and block.
  5. Mark physical concomitants and avoidance, then compare the summary with other samples.

Log a sample

What the log is for

Two kinds of disfluency

Researchers separate stuttering-like disfluencies (part-word repetitions, one-syllable word repetitions, prolongations and blocks) from other disfluencies that everyone produces (interjections, revisions, phrase repetitions). Percent of syllables stuttered counts only the first kind. Each moment counts once, however many times a sound repeats; the number of repetition units is recorded separately.

One sample is one sample

Fluency changes with the listener, the task and the day. A student may be fluent in the therapy room and stutter often when answering in class, or avoid words so the count looks low. Several samples across settings, taken the same way, tell you more than any single number.

What this log is not

It counts and computes from your sample; it compares the student with their own samples, not with norms, and it does not diagnose stuttering or decide eligibility. Records use a code, never a name, and stay in this browser.

Sources

  1. Yairi, E., & Ambrose, N. G. (1999). Early childhood stuttering I: Persistency and recovery rates. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42(5), 1097–1112. (Stuttering-like and other disfluencies.)
  2. Guitar, B. (2019). Stuttering: An Integrated Approach to Its Nature and Treatment (5th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
  3. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Practice Portal: Fluency Disorders (asha.org/practice-portal).
  4. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example student is made up. The log counts and computes from a sample; it reports no norms and does not diagnose a fluency disorder. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.