Linguistic, Cultural, and Geographic Influences on Public Attitudes Toward Stuttering: Cameroon, Canada, USA

Ken St Louis, Patricia Roberts, Joseph Lukong and Megan Freese

English and French speaking adults from Canada and Cameroon completed experimental versions of the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes (POSHA-E) in English or French. Results were compared across the two languages and two countries and, further, to a control group of monolingual English speakers from the USA. Preliminary results suggest that there were similarities across all five groups, but important differences between Cameroonian participants and those from Canada and the USA. Country of origin appears more important than native language in explaining stuttering attitudes.