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Public perception of stuttering and the stigma

From: James
Date: 20 Oct 2008
Time: 23:42:23 -0500
Remote Name: 128.252.173.101

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Hello! News reports say that Biden used to stutter. If Biden still calls himself a stutterer or admit that he is still a person who stutters (which is no big deal). How would the public perception be? It seems that the public respects and admires someone who used to stutter and did something to overcome it, but still don't understand stuttering and/or views stuttering and a stutterer negatively. Has the public perception of stuttering changed at all in the past 10-20 years and will it ever change? The negative stigma attached to stuttering?


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