Survey of Students’Identification of Cluttering and Stuttering

The purpose of this study was to measure students’ abilities to identify known persons with fluency disorders. One group read written definitions of stuttering and cluttering; the other group read the definitions and also viewed a video segment on cluttering. Results yielded no significant differences in the numbers of persons with fluency disorders identified by the two groups. However, participants who received written definitions only identified more people who clutter than those who also viewed the video. This may suggest that people provided with only a written definition of cluttering may be overestimating the number of individuals they know who clutter.