Stuttering attitudes among Turkish family generations and neighbors from representative samples

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

“…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). This body of work has consistently confirmed the existence of a negative "stuttering stereotype" (Woods & Williams, 1976), which pervades cultures and populations worldwide.…”

“…Louis, Lubker, Yaruss, Adkins, & Pill, 2008). Particularly relevant for this study, the POSHA-S is capable of measuring attitudes of 6th grade children (Özdemir, St. Louis, & Topbaş , 2011b) and 9th grade adolescents (Flynn & St. Louis, 2011). Özdemir et al (2011b) discovered that while one's own individual family had a limited but measurable effect on stuttering attitudes of 6th grade Turkish students, attitudes of all of the families and neighborhoods were remarkably similar.…”

Attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs of Arab speech-language pathologists about stuttering

“…see Silverman, 2004), have been reported among individuals with regards to both adults and children who stutter (CWS) (e.g. see Özdemir et al, 2011a, 2011bSt. Louis et al, 2011).…”

Comparing Parents and Young Childrens Attitudes Toward Stuttering

“…To explain the dramatic similarities observed, the authors concluded that the attitudes of parents or communities were likely passed down to their children. Given that other research has demonstrated that elementary school-aged children hold biased or negative attitudes toward peers who stutter [11,13,14,24] results, would suggest that their attitudes are likely no worse than those of their parents.…”

“…Negative public attitudes exist not only among adults from different cultures and groups [8][9][10]. Moreover, negative attitudes using a variety of measures have been observed in children as well [11][12][13][14].…”