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Employer attitudes toward stuttering
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The attitudes of 644 employers toward stuttering were studied through the use of a questionnaire which required the respondents to indicate their strenght of agreement to seven attitudinal statements concerning stuttering as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Journal of Fluency Disorders.The article was published on 1983-03-01. It has received 130 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stuttering & Job performance.read more
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Early Childhood Stuttering I
TL;DR: The purpose of the investigation reported herein is to study the pathognomonic course of stuttering during its first several years in early childhood with special reference to the occurrence of persistent and spontaneously recovered forms of the disorder.
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Life experiences of people who stutter, and the perceived impact of stuttering on quality of life: personal accounts of South African individuals.
Michelle Klompas,Eleanor Ross +1 more
TL;DR: Findings are taken to suggest the need to incorporate subjective feelings about stuttering into the clinical practice of speech-language therapy and to interpret and utilize the subjective meanings that individuals attach to their stuttering to improve stuttering treatment, counseling and research.
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The Impact of Stuttering on Employment Opportunities and Job Performance.
Joseph F. Klein,Stephen B. Hood +1 more
TL;DR: Results indicated that more than 70% of people who stutter agreed that stuttering decreases one's chances of being hired or promoted and stuttering interferes with their job performance.
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Early Childhood Stuttering
Ehud Yairi,Denise M. Carrico +1 more
TL;DR: A nationwide survey of pediatricians was conducted by as mentioned in this paper to assess their practices with and attitudes and beliefs about young children who stutter and their stuttering and their attitudes indicated mixed trends, although the opinions of the majority of the pediatricians agreed with current information about stuttering, on several important matters a significant percentage held outdated or erroneous beliefs about the etiology of the disorder or characteristics of young children.
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A Controlled Clinical Trial for Stuttering in Persons Aged 9 to 14 Years
Ashley Craig,Karen Hancock,Esther Chang,Chris McCready,Alison Shepley,Annette McCaul,Deborah Costello,Shanne Harding,Roberta Kehren,Catherine Masel,Karen Reilly +10 more
TL;DR: All three treatments for children aged 9-14 who stutter were very successful in the long term for over 70% of the group, though the EMG feedback and home-based treatments were superior when percentages falling below a cutoff point were used to discriminate between groups.
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Traits Attributed to Stuttering and Normally Fluent Males
C. Lee Woods,Dean E. Williams +1 more
TL;DR: It was concluded that a strong stereotype of a stutterer's personal characteristics exists, that the stereotype is predominantly unfavorable, thatThe stereotype is essentially unaffected by amount of exposure to actual stutterers, and that the traits attributed to boys and men who stutter are similar.
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Speech clinician's stereotypes of elementary-school boys who stutter
Ehud Yairi,Dean E. Williams +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that speech clinicians assigned a relatively large number of descriptive items to stuttering boys, and the median number of items mentioned tended to increase with clinical experience, and male and female clinicians were more similar than they were different in the traits they assigned.
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Teacher attitudes toward stuttering
Thomas A. Crowe,Julie H. Walton +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used the Teacher Attitudes Toward Stuttering (TATS) Inventory to measure teachers' attitudes toward stuttering in elementary school students and found that significant positive correlations existed between teacher attitudes toward and knowledge of stuttering.
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Speech clinicians' attribution of personality traits as a function of stuttering severity.
TL;DR: Clinicians' preconceptions of persons who stutter are evaluated to demonstrate that stutterers are generally considered to be a homogenous group and stereotypically assign negative personality traits to all levels of stuttering severity relative to normal.