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Influence of stuttering on social acceptance of people who stutter
Machová, Kateřina ; Černá, Martina (advisor) ; Veroňková, Jitka (referee)
Stuttering is generally known in public. In the Czech enviroment is more common to examine balbutism especially from the terminological point of view. Abroad, we find also those types of researches, which aim is to find out more about the influence of stuttering on the social acceptance of people who stutter. The aim of our work is to contribute to this area of researches. Our reasearch consists of two parts: a perception test for respondents without stuttering and semi-structured interviews with people who stutter. We asked 5 stutteres, with whom both recording and unrecorded semi-structured interviews were made. Those interviews focused on their experiences with social acceptance in various spheres of life (relationships, job opportunities etc.) A perception test was created from the recordings a than played to 20 respondents without stuttering. Based on these recordings, respondents assesed the personality traits of the speakers and their social opportunities on five-point Likert scale. After that, the results of both types of research were compared and related to the previous research. The relation between the results of our research and previous researches were found in only one case out of five stutterers. In this case the symptoms of stuttering we subjectively percieved as the most severe....

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