“…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.…”