Change in the perception of stuttering among students at a training school for child care providers after viewing videos of stuttering

Abstract

We investigated changes in the perception of stuttering using an SD method, before and after viewing materials in lectures at a child care training school. We found a significant difference (p < 0.01) between the perceptions of stuttering among students before and after viewing in 14 items: " dark-bright", " hard-soft", "cold-warm", "passive-aggressive", "weak-strong", "gloomy-cheerful", "ugly-beautiful", "heavy-light", "inactive-active", "dislike-like", "bad-good", "unkind-kind", "violent-peaceful" and "sick-fun". On the other hand, we do not find a difference in "noisy-calm". The perceptions of stuttering among students changed from negative to positive, which indicates the effectiveness of the viewing materials in changing their perceptions of stuttering. As a future problem for this study, we suggest considering the contents of viewing materials and research methods.