Cluttering Screening Questionnaire Test

People who notice rapid, disorganized, or uneven speech can use the Cluttering Screening Questionnaire Test to organize and interpret observed speech patterns. The result offers a preliminary indication of whether the pattern leans toward stuttering, cluttering, or a mixture. As a speech fluency screening, it can help the respondent identify which everyday experiences deserve closer attention.

What This Assessment Measures

The questionnaire examines how speech is produced and which observable features accompany fluency disruptions. Its items cover repetitions and starting delays associated with stuttering, alongside rapid rate, omitted syllables, unclear articulation, irregular breathing, shifting volume, and disrupted rhythm associated with cluttering. It also asks about word finding, sequencing, attention, listening, language organization, writing, coordination, and awareness, because communication difficulties may extend beyond moment-to-moment speech.

The result summarizes reported cluttering symptoms and related tendencies, not ability or character. The catalogue defines the Total Score (0-99) as a preliminary indicator of the likely speech-disorder type, while the displayed bands are:

• Stuttering / stuttering-leaning mixed (0-44) indicates a result in the lower range.
• Mixed (cluttering-leaning) (45-55) indicates an intermediate result leaning toward cluttering.
• Cluttering range (56-99) indicates a higher cluttering-oriented result.

Methodology and Evidence Base

The response format shown asks how strongly a feature applies through four choices: Not always, A little, Quite a lot, and Very much; one sample wording uses A great deal for the highest response. This self-report format makes results dependent on memory, attention, current context, and willingness to describe speech and related behavior accurately.

Responses are combined into the catalogue’s reported score and assigned to the displayed bands. Because the questionnaire does not publish a per-answer weighting rule, choices should not be converted into points by assumption. Read the outcome as a preliminary stuttering-cluttering profile, ideally alongside examples from conversation, reading, and communication.

Content aligns conceptually with the Predictive Cluttering Inventory, differential features discussed by van Zaalen-Op 't Hof, Wijnen, and De Jonckere, and Ward’s framework for stuttering and cluttering. These sources distinguish fluency symptoms from timing, organization, attention, language, and motor features. The scoring for this online questionnaire has not been standardized or normed. Current context and overlapping features can affect scores, so persistent concerns merit discussion with a speech-language professional.