Stuttering meets sterotype, stigma, and discrimination : an overview of attitude research / Kenneth O. St. Louis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

St. Louis, Kenneth O., author.

Series:

WVU Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech disorders.

Language disorders.

Communicative disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than a century of research has sought to identify the causes of stuttering, describe its nature, and enhance its clinical treatment. By contrast, studies directly focused upon public and professional attitudes toward stuttering began in the 1970's. Recent work has taken this research to new levels, including the development of standard attitude measures; addressing the widely reported phenomena of teasing, bullying, and discrimination against people who stutter; and attempting to change public opinion toward stuttering to more accepting and sensitive levels. Stuttering Meets Stereotype, Stigma, and Discrimination: An Overview of Attitude Research is the only reference work to date devoted entirely to the topic of stuttering attitudes. It features comprehensive review chapters by St. Louis, Boyle and Blood, Gabel, Langevin, and Abdalla; an annotated bibliography by Hughes; and experimental studies by other seasoned and new researchers. The book leads the reader through a maze of research efforts, emerging with a clear understanding of the important issues involved and ideas of where to go next. Importantly, the evidence base for stuttering attitude research extends beyond research in this fluency disorder to such areas as mental illness, obesity, and race. Thus, although of interest primarily to those who work, interact, or otherwise deal with stuttering, the book has potential for increasing understanding, ameliorating negative attitudes, and informing research on any of a host of other stigmatized conditions.

Contents:

Foreword / Glen Tellis

Preface

Introduction

Review

Epidemiology of public attitudes toward stuttering / Kenneth O. St. Louis

Stigma and stuttering : conceptualizations, applications, and coping / Michael P. Boyle and Gordon W. Blood

Bullying experienced by youth who stutter : the problem and potential intervention strategies / Marilyn Langevin

Job discrimination associated with stuttering in adults / Rodney Gabel

Changing attitudes toward stuttering / Fauzia Abdalla

Research : attitudes of the non-stuttering public

American Indian perceptions of stuttering / Ann M. Beste-Guldborg, Kenneth O. St. Louis, and Nichole Campanale

Sudanese perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge of stuttering / yomna Elsiddig, Charles Haynes, Julie Atwood, and Kenneth O. St. Louis

Public attitudes toward mild versus severe stuttering in the United States and Kuwait / Kenneth O. St. Louis, Fauzia Abdalla, Megan E. Burgess, and Chelsea D. Kuhn

Public attitudes toward males versus females who stutter : United States and Iran / Kenneth O. St. Louis, Staci N. LeMasters, and Ahmad Poormohammad

Recognizing positive aspects of stuttering : a survey of the general public / Stephanie Hughes and Edward A. Strugalla

Research : attitudes of professionals

Attitudes toward stuttering : a look at selected helping professions / Ann M. Beste-Guldborg, Kenneth O. St. Louis, and Nichole Campanale

Knowledge and attitudes of primary school teachers about stuttering children in Sri Lanka / Saminda Kuruppu and Chantha K. Jayawardena

A comparison of stuttering knowledge and attitudes of Polish SLPs and SLP students / Katarzyna Wȩsierska, Marta Wȩsierska, Kenneth O. St. Louis, and Ann Beste-Guldborg

Effects of fluency disorders coursework on students' stuttering attitudes in two countries / Lejla Junuzović-Žunić, Mary E. Weidner, Isabella K. Reichel, Susanne Cook, Kenneth O. St. Louis, and Mercedes B. Ware

An interdisciplinary training program in stuttering : raising awareness and changing attitudes / Stephanie Hughes, Rodney M. Gabel, Christopher P. Roseman, and Derek E. Daniels

Research : attitudes of people who stutter and/or their family or friends

The appraisal of the stuttering environment (ASE) : a new clinical tool to measure stuttering attitudes in the client's environment / Kenneth O. St. Louis, Chelsea D. Kuhn, and Lindsey Lytwak

Children's and parents' perspectives about the psychosocial impact of stuttering and stuttering-related bullying / Susanne Cook and Peter Howell

Stuttering in women : changes and adaptations throughout the lifespan / Kathleen Scaler Scott and Dinamichele Boyer

Qualitative analysis of covert stuttering : workplace implications and saving face / Jill Douglass and John Tetnowski

Changing attitudes toward stuttering : what children liked about a stuttering education resource / Marilyn Langevin

Attitudes toward stuttering : an annotated bibliography / Stephanie Hughes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 2, 2015).

ISBN:

9781940425375

1940425379

9781940425382

1940425387

OCLC:

912012270