Stuttering Meets Sterotype, Stigma, and Discrimination: An Overview of Attitude Research

Kenneth O. St. Louis is a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at West Virginia University with 40 years of experience in teaching, treating, and researching fluency disorders. St. Louis is a cofounder of the International Fluency Association and the International Cluttering Association, with recognitions of ASHA Fellowship, the Deso Weiss Award for Excellence in cluttering, WVU's Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award, and WVU's Heebink Award for Outstanding Service to the State of West Virginia. In 1999, he founded the International Project on Attitudes Toward Human Attributes and has collaborated with numerous colleagues internationally on measuring public attitudes toward stuttering.