Projective drawings and children who stutter

Communication attitudes in children who stutter: A meta-analytic review

“…It was therefore considered particularly important to identify all studies on the topic, including those by researchers with no commercial interest in the instruments. Notably, no copyright holder of the applied instruments was among the authors of the two papers that reported nonsignificant results (Abbiati et al, 2012;Devore, Nandur, & Manning, 1984) (for details see Figure 2, Paper 1). However, as three other studies (Clark et al, 2012;Jelčić Jakšić, 2012;(Leahy & Loftus, 1998) by non-copyright holders reported significant differences between groups, it seems unlikely that biased inferences were drawn.…”

Stuttering

“…Predictably, therefore, some recent small-scale attempts to find distinctive personality features or features relevant to changes in stuttering (Devore, Nandur, & Manning, 1984;Sermas & Cox, 1982) have provided few reasons to alter that agreement. The unprofitable search for a stuttering personality may also have led to a shift in the focus of this type of research.…”