Do I Have a Stutter Quiz

People who notice recurring repetitions, prolonged sounds, blocks, or speech-related tension may use the Do I Have a Stutter Quiz to organize recent experiences. It is intended for people reflecting on their own communication, rather than judging someone else from a distance. By linking speech patterns with effort, emotion, avoidance, and participation, it makes self-assessment of stuttering more focused. The result highlights which areas may deserve closer attention.

What This Assessment Explores

The questionnaire examines speech-flow experiences and communication effects. Items ask about repetitions, prolonged sounds, silent blocks, restarting, word changes, unfinished thoughts, physical tension, forced breath, movements, fatigue, emotions, avoidance, and participation. This questionnaire is a speech pattern assessment that organizes endorsed speech-flow experiences and their effects without assigning a yes-or-no label.

The displayed dimensions are:

• Communication Impact and Support Needs (0-15) shows distress, avoidance, reduced participation, or support need: No impact endorsed (0); Worth noticing (1-2); Support worth seeking (3-15).
• Speaking Effort and Physical Struggle (0-15) shows tension, force, movements, or discomfort: No listed effort endorsed (0); Effort worth observing (1-2); Professional input worth considering (3-15).
• Speech-Flow Patterns (0-15) shows repetitions, prolongations, or blocks: No pattern endorsed (0); Worth observing (1-2); Worth considering (3-15).

Together, the result shows which experiences were endorsed and where attention may be useful.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item uses four response choices covering frequency, intensity, persistence, impact, and support needs. Several questions refer to the past four weeks, while others address current experiences, conversations, or speaking moments. Answers combine speech-flow patterns with effort, emotion, avoidance, and participation.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with OASES (Yaruss & Quesal, 2006), a multidimensional view of stuttering, but it is not an adaptation. Its attention to repetitions, prolongations, blocks, and physical struggle overlaps with domains assessed by SSI-4 (Riley & Bakker, 2009). Tichenor and Yaruss (2019) add evidence that adults who stutter describe speech, emotional, and participation effects.

Used for reflection, this speech fluency self-assessment organizes responses but is not a standardized administration of those instruments. The displayed bands are unvalidated reflective summaries, not diagnostic or severity cutoffs; the questionnaire has no validated standardized scoring method beyond its banding and red-flag rule. A concerning experience matters independently, and a red-flag response scored 3 overrides the total. Recall, context, self-awareness, and response bias can shape self-report, so use the pattern to track situations and decide if professional guidance would help.