An Exploratory Comparison of Attitudes toward Stuttering and Cluttering of Chinese Practicing Speech and Language Therapists and SLT Students.
Yu-An Chen, Yu-An Chen, Shoko Miyamoto and 6 others
PMID 40031890WHAT IT FOUND
Chinese practicing speech therapists held more positive attitudes toward stuttering and cluttering than students in training.
However, both groups showed more negative attitudes than global averages, particularly regarding causes and appropriate referral pathways.
Key findings
01Practicing SLTs had significantly more positive overall attitudes toward stuttering and cluttering than SLT students, with most ratings favoring the practitioners.
02Chinese SLTs and students attributed stuttering and cluttering to medical causes like viruses or disease more frequently than the global database average.
03SLTs with experience treating 6-10 fluency disorder cases held significantly more positive attitudes about stuttering than those with no experience or 1-5 cases.
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How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for SLPs
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What it does not show
Small sample sizes (54 SLTs, 99 students). SLT sample was nearly half the size of the student sample, raising concerns about representativeness. Sampling bias is possible due to recruitment via WeChat and personal contacts. Order effect: All participants completed the stuttering survey before the cluttering survey.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest. The work was supported by the Gushinkai Foundation.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the students' higher confidence in their knowledge as accurate knowledge. The study found students were more confident than SLTs but held more negative attitudes, likely due to reliance on misinformation from media and the internet.