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Przepiorka, Aneta M.; Blachnio, Agata; St. Louis, Kenneth O.; Wozniak, Tomasz – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: People who stutter often experience negative judgments and reactions to their stuttering from the nonstuttering majority. Many are stigmatized because of their stuttering and threatened with social exclusion, placing them at risk for compromised quality of life. Aims: The purpose of this investigation was to measure public attitudes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stuttering, Social Attitudes, Public Opinion
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St. Louis, Kenneth O. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Purpose: The study investigated the extent to which differences existed between public attitudes of males versus females. Method: One hundred adults, 50 males and 50 females, were chosen at random from each of 50 study samples comprising a total of 3371 respondents in a database archive who had completed the "Public Opinion Survey of Human…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Females, Opinions, Databases
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Ozdemir, R. Sertan; St. Louis, Kenneth O.; Topbas, Seyhun – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2011
Purpose: A Turkish translation of the "Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes-Stuttering" ("POSHA-S") was used to compare probability versus convenience sampling to measure public attitudes toward stuttering. Method: A convenience sample of adults in Eskisehir, Turkey was compared with two replicates of a school-based,…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Foreign Countries, Sampling, Probability