Speech-language pathologists' perceptions of child and adult female and male stutterers

Life experiences of people who stutter, and the perceived impact of stuttering on quality of life: personal accounts of South African individuals

“…In line with these findings, many studies show that listeners attribute negative attitudes toward stutterers (Collins & Blood, 1990;Silverman & Paynter, 1990), even when listeners have been speech-language pathologists (Lass, Ruscello, Pannbacker, Schmitt, & Everly-Myers, 1989). However, in contrast with these studies, Crowe and Walton (1981) found generally favorable attitudes expressed by fluent speakers towards people who stutter.…”

Attitudes toward stuttering of nonstuttering preschool and kindergarten children: A comparison using a standard instrument prototype

“…An expansive and growing literature base has sought to examine the experiences of people who stutter from the perspective of their social milieu, i.e., attitudes toward stuttering of those with whom they interact or the public. In the ubiquitous stuttering literature, the term public attitudes 1 refer to the inaccurate, insensitive, or otherwise unhelpful beliefs, reactions, perceptions, opinions, values, and related constructs that have been documented in various populations including: educators (Abdalla & St. Louis, 2012;Crowe & Walton, 1981;Ruscello, Lass, Schmitt, & Pannbacker, 1994), speech-language pathologists (Cooper & Cooper, 1996;Lass, Ruscello, Pannbacker, Schmitt, & Everly-Myers, 1989), college students (Betz, Blood, & Blood, 2008;Dorsey & Guenther, 2000;Hughes, 2008;Hughes, Gabel, Roseman, & Daniels, in press;St. Louis & Lass, 1981), employers (Gabel, Blood, Tellis, & Althouse, 2004;Gabel, Hughes, & Daniels, 2008;Hurst & Cooper, 1983a;Hurst & Cooper, 1983b;Irani, Gabel, Hughes, Swartz, & Palasik, 2009), and family units (Özdemir, St. Louis, & Topbaş , 2011b).…”

Psychophysiological responses of adults who do not stutter while listening to stuttering

“…These stereotypic attitudes towards stuttering were found to exist among various groups including students (Dorsey and Guenther, 2000;St. Louis and Lass, 1981;White and Collins, 1984), teachers and professors (Crowe and Walton, 1981;Dorsey and Guenther, 2000;Lass et al, 1992;Yeakle and Cooper, 1986), parents (Crowe and Cooper, 1977;Fowlie and Cooper, 1978;Woods and Williams, 1976), speech-language clinicians Cooper and Rustin, 1985;Kalinowski et al, 1993;Lass et al, 1989, Rami et al, 2003Turnbaugh et al, 1979;Woods and Williams, 1971;Yairi and Williams, 1970), people who stutter (Lass et al, 1995;Kalinowski et al, 1987), vocational rehabilitation counselors (Hurst and Cooper, 1983), special educators (Ruscello and Lass, 1994), people who have never had any direct contact with a person who stutters (Craig et al, 2003), and even residents of small rural communities who had close contact with people who stutter such as relatives and family members (Doody et al, 1993). These findings suggest that stuttering stereotypes are persistent and omnipresent in many populations.…”