Ragsdale J D, Ashby J K
J Speech Hear Res. 1982 Mar;25(1):75-80. doi: 10.1044/jshr.2501.75.
In a study to elicit clinicians' connotative meanings regarding stuttering, 206 practicing speech-language pathologists participated. A semantic differential technique was utilized for gathering responses to seven concepts in the domain of stuttering on five meaning dimensions. The background variables of clinicians' age, academic degree, clinical experience, ASHA certification, and academic coursework in stuttering were also measured. Results indicated that increasing age, higher degrees, more coursework, or more clinical experience did not produce more positive connotations among speech-language pathologists. Those holding the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology showed more positive connotative responses than the noncertified group. Speech-language pathologists do respond differently on meaning dimensions for concepts in the domain of stuttering. The concept stuttering was evaluated more positively than all others, whereas the concept stuttering therapy was evaluated more negatively than any of the other six. Concepts which referred to individuals who stutter were viewed in a similar negative way regardless of age or sex. The subjects did not respond to the concept parents of stutters as negatively as they did toward those who stutter.
在一项旨在探究临床医生对口吃的内涵意义的研究中，206名执业言语病理学家参与其中。采用语义差异技术来收集对五个意义维度上口吃领域七个概念的反应。还测量了临床医生的年龄、学位、临床经验、美国言语语言听力协会认证以及口吃方面的学术课程等背景变量。结果表明，年龄增长、学位更高、课程更多或临床经验更丰富，在言语病理学家中并未产生更积极的内涵。持有言语语言病理学临床能力证书的人比未获认证的群体表现出更积极的内涵反应。言语病理学家在口吃领域概念的意义维度上确实有不同反应。“口吃”这一概念的评价比其他所有概念都更积极，而“口吃治疗”这一概念的评价比其他六个概念中的任何一个都更消极。无论年龄或性别，涉及口吃者的概念都以类似的负面方式看待。受试者对口吃者父母这一概念的反应不像对口吃者那样消极。
