Faculty of Rehabilitation, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Okayama, Japan.
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2021 Apr 20;52(2):717-727. doi: 10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00069. Epub 2021 Jan 26.
Purpose Children who stutter (CWS) face communication difficulties in school activities and at home. Although the importance of receiving support from their surroundings has been documented, few studies have investigated potential requests of CWS from their surroundings. This study aimed to elucidate such requests. Method A total of 43 school-age children and 25 adolescents who stutter completed a free-description questionnaire, including questions such as "what you want your classmates/your classroom teacher/your family to do about your stuttering?" Their descriptions were summarized and categorized based on similarity. Results The results indicate that 90.6% of the participants had more than one request for their classmates, classroom teacher, or family. A total of 197 items were extracted and categorized into seven themes. In particular, the responses included "listen attentively," "treat us naturally," and "make arrangements." While participants tended to hope for classmates or family to "listen attentively" and "treat us naturally," the request to "make arrangements" was higher for their teacher. Their potential requests varied by age: While school-age CWS wanted people around them to "listen carefully," the hope of adolescents who stutter was "treat us naturally." Conclusions The various potential requests of CWS were categorized, and the responses shed light on the importance of increasing knowledge of stuttering. The difference between the requests could reflect psychosocial differences between school-age children and adolescents who stutter. In addition, social interaction among peers is more developed in adolescents, and they could harbor fear of being excluded within their community.
口吃儿童（CWS）在学校活动和家庭中面临沟通困难。尽管已经证明他们需要从周围环境获得支持，但很少有研究调查 CWS 从周围环境中获得支持的潜在需求。本研究旨在阐明这些需求。
共有 43 名学龄儿童和 25 名口吃青少年完成了一份自由描述问卷，其中包括“关于你的口吃，你希望你的同学/你的班主任/你的家人怎么做？”根据相似性对他们的描述进行了总结和分类。
结果表明，90.6%的参与者对同学、班主任或家人有不止一个要求。共提取了 197 个项目并分为七个主题。特别是，这些回复包括“专心倾听”、“自然对待我们”和“做好安排”。虽然参与者倾向于希望同学或家人“专心倾听”和“自然对待我们”，但教师更希望“做好安排”。他们的潜在需求因年龄而异：学龄 CWS 希望周围的人“仔细倾听”，而口吃青少年的愿望是“自然对待我们”。
对 CWS 的各种潜在需求进行了分类，这些回复强调了增加对口吃了解的重要性。CWS 的不同需求可能反映了学龄儿童和青少年口吃者之间的心理社会差异。此外，青少年之间的同伴社交互动更加发达，他们可能担心在社区中被排斥。
