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Re: PWS's Knowledge About Stuttering

From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 09 Oct 2012
Time: 18:11:12 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121

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Jon, Using the POSHA-S, a measure of public attitudes toward stuttering, but given to stutterers or parents of stutterers, colleagues and I have found that these groups have much better than average knowledge (i.e., beliefs about traits & personality, who should help, causation, and life potential). Their self reactions (to a hypothetical person who stuttered) are also much, much higher than average. Their Overall Stuttering Score (mean of the Beliefs and Self Reactions subscores) are among the highest we have seen except for a sample of people who stuttered or used to stutter who were found by my students. That is, they were not seeking treatment, and some never did. If you would like to contact me off line, feel free to do so. Ken


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