Stutterers' Projection of Listener Reaction

Abstract

A group of 20 stutterers and matched controls were shown movie film segments of ten persons reported to be listening to individual speakers. The subjects were asked (a) to indicate if the unseen speaker were a stutterer, a nonstutterer, or “can’t tell,” and (b) to describe each listener’s reaction. Results reveal that the identifications and descriptions from stutterers were comparable in all respects to those of nonstutterers.