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From: Brittney
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Time: 19:00:22 -0500
Remote Name: 66.190.11.151
Thank you for sharing this paper. I find learning about different cultures to be very intriguing, and very beneficial to me as a future speech-language pathologist. I enjoyed learning about the views educators from Kuwait have on stuttering. I was particularly interested in the fact that 17% of teachers thought individuals should hide their stuttering, and that 81% believed psychological problems were the etiology of stuttering. This made me wonder if these responses reflect particular cultural beliefs about communicative disorders. If so, the way a speech-language pathologist approaches stuttering in Kuwait may center on this as the field develops.