Perceptions of communicative disorders

Health science students’ perceptions of motor and sensory aphasia caused by stroke

“…Motor aphasia had high levels of ‘quiet’, ‘passive’, ‘dumb’, ‘unstable’ and ‘gloomy’ images, while sensory aphasia had high levels of ‘noisy’, ‘unstable’, ‘cheerful’, ‘sensitive’, ‘fluctuating in emotions’, ‘active’, ‘dumb’ and ‘gloomy’ images. Although it is difficult to make a direct comparison with this study, the speech of patients with language disorders was perceived as more unstable, less intelligent 11 ) and more negative than that of normal people without speech disorders 9 , 10 ) .…”

“…By referring to preceding studies 9 , 10 ) , adjectives used for the questions were constructed in semantic differential scale of 5 points. In total, there were 15 adjectives: ‘sensitive’, ‘dull’, ‘gloomy’, ‘cheerful’, ‘quiet’, ‘noisy’, ‘brilliant’, ‘dumb’, ‘passive’, ‘aggressive’, ‘stable’, ‘unstable’, ‘fluctuating in emotions’, ‘impassive’ and ‘active’.…”

“…Most subjects of studies of perception of the disabled have been students, since they are not only the main pillars of future society, but they are also the generation which should form cooperative relationship with the disabled 8 ) . However, even though studies on perceptions and attitudes toward disabilities have been regularly conducted 9 , 10 ) , there have been few studies of aftereffects of stroke 11 ) .…”

Hypernasal Speech Is Perceived as More Monotonous than Typical Speech

“…However, Patterson and Pring [17] were not able to replicate this finding. Williams and Dietrich [18] did not find gender differences but the same authors found that males perceived communication disorders as more severe in a later study [19]. Other researchers were not able to show gender effects for the perception of different speech disorders such as stuttering [20, 21], dysarthria [22] and simulated speech and language disorders [23].…”