What is it about?
Do Speech-Language Pathology students and Specialists always have positive attitudes toward stuttering? We summarized past research and found that SLP students and Specialists share similar negative attitudes, particularly in non-Western countries. Two groups consistently agree that people who stutter are nervous, and the attitudes toward the clinics appear to be more negative in Western countries.
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Why is it important?
We have found that Speech-Language Pathology students and Specialists have similarly negative attitudes toward people who stutter. This suggests that future de-stigmatization campaigns should also target these two groups.
Perspectives
This may challenge what some people believe to be an overwhelmingly positive attitude towards stuttering among professionals. I was surprised by some of the differences between the results in Western and non-Western countries.
YU-AN CHEN
University of Tsukuba
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This page is a summary of: Attitude of Speech-Language Pathology Students and Specialists Toward People Who Stutter: Inter- and Intraregional Comparisons, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, April 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2024_persp-23-00185.
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