The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether a group of university students would report role entrapment of people who stutter (PWS) in the form of occupational stereotyping. The study also examined whether severity of stuttering (mild or severe) and level of therapy involvement (choosing or not choosing to attend therapy) affected the…

An Arabic version of the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes Inventory [POSHA-E; St Louis, K. O. (2005), a global instrument to measure public attitudes about stuttering. ("The ASHA Leader," 22, 2-13)] was administered to 424 Arab parents of preschool and school age children in 18 government schools across all six governorates in…

Speech clinicians wrote adjectives they felt best described adult and young male stutterers. Responses indicated a fairly well established stereotype of the stutterer, regardless of age. Most adjectives were judged to be undesirable personality characteristics for males (75 percent of adjectives indicated nervous or fearful, 64 percent shy and…