Nurses' attitudes toward physicians who stutter

The attitudes, knowledge and beliefs of Arab parents in Kuwait about stuttering

“…Louis, 2005), teachers (Crowe & Walton, 1981;Yeakle & Cooper, 1986), and college students (Ruscello, Lass, & Brown, 1988;Silverman & Paynter, 1990). Health professionals, including SLPs and SLP students, have also been found to hold negative stereotypes of stuttering and PWS, which include the belief that PWS are generally quiet, reticent, guarded, avoiding, introverted, passive, self-derogatory, anxious, tense, nervous, and afraid Cooper & Cooper, 1996;Leahy, 1994;Silverman and Bongey, 1997;Snyder, 2001;St. Louis and Lass, 1981;Yairi and Carrico, 1992).…”

Measuring role entrapment of people who stutter

“…The authors found that the college students perceived the lawyer and factory worker who stuttered more negatively than the two constructs of individuals who did not stutter. In a related study, Silverman and Bongey (1997) surveyed the attitudes of 20 nurses toward scenarios involving a "doctor who stutters" and a "doctor who does not stutter." The nurses perceived doctors who stutter more negatively than doctors who did not stutter.…”

“…No definition of stuttering was given because of a lack of an accepted standard definition (Guitar, 1998;Silverman, 1996). Therefore, participants were allowed to use their own internal definition of a person who stutters, as has been done in other studies of attitudes towards people who stutter (Ruscello et al, 1988;Silverman & Bongey, 1997;Silverman & Paynter, 1990;Turnbaugh et al, 1979;Woods & Williams, 1976). The two cover pages provided background information about the study, as well as directions for completing and returning the survey.…”

“…Therefore, listener feedback can greatly affect the self-perceptions of people who stutter. Unfortunately, listener feedback embraces myriad negative attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes, that have been reported by a number of groups including speech-language pathologists (SLPs) (Cooper & Cooper, 1996;Turnbaugh, Guitar, & Hoffman, 1979), educators (Crowe & Walton, 1981;Yeakle & Cooper, 1986), healthcare professionals (Silverman & Bongey, 1997;Yairi & Carrico, 1992), lay people (Crowe & Cooper, 1977;Ham, 1990), college students (Ruscello, Lass, & Brown, 1988;Silverman & Paynter, 1990), employers (Hurst & Cooper, 1983a), and vocational counselors (Hurst & Cooper, 1983b).…”

The impact of stuttering on employment opportunities and job performance

“…In a review of the literature, Lass et al (1995) noted that this has been found for a wide variety of groups, including college students, teachers, school administrators, and speech-language pathologists, just to name a few. Nurses have judged physicians who stuttered to be more afraid, tense, and nervous and to be less mature, intelligent, secure, and competent than physicians who do not stutter (Silverman & Bongey, 1997). College students have rated lawyers who stutter as being less intelligent, employable, competent and educated than lawyers who do not (Silverman & Paynter, 1990).…”