Stuttering attitudes of students: Professional, intracultural, and international comparisons

Speech pathology student clinician attitudes and beliefs towards people who stutter: A mixed-method pilot study

“…Research shows that it is not solely the general public who stereotype people who stutter, but speech pathologists and speech pathology students as well (Mavis, St. Louis, Ozdemir, & Togram, 2013;St. Louis et al, 2014).…”

“…The results showed that the while speech pathology students exhibited more positive ratings towards stuttering (i.e., they were less likely to tell a person who stutters to 'slow down') than the non-speech pathology students, speech pathology students' ratings nonetheless reflected a stuttering stereotype. Consequently, the researchers encouraged further research on stuttering attitudes of speech pathology students using the POSHA-S (St. Louis et al, 2014) to verify or elaborate upon these findings. Despite cross-cultural research in attitudes towards stuttering globally using the POSHA-S, there is limited research, which explores the attitudes of speech pathology students in Australia.…”

“…The data are then converted to a −100 to +100 scale where 0 is neutral for the purpose of more manageable comparisons to other samples, as per previous studies using the POSHA-S (Flynn & St. Louis, 2011;St. Louis, 2012;St. Louis et al, 2014).…”

“…Past studies conducted with speech pathology students from universities in Poland, the United States and the United Kingdom, have found that students hold more negative perceptions towards people who stutter, labelling them with negative adjectives consistent with the "stuttering stereotype". They described people who stutter as more introverted, distrustful and withdrawn (Horsley & Fitzgibbon, 1987;Ruscello et al, 1990;St. Louis et al, 2014).…”

Generalized confidence intervals compatible with the Min test for simultaneous comparisons of one subpopulation to several other subpopulations

“…For example, Louis et al (2014) compared eight subpopulations of US and Polish students in terms of their attitudes towards stuttering. The study considered subpopulations corresponding to diverse majors, programs of study and cultures; this study is further discussed in Section 3.…”