Wendell Johnson's Research With 22 Orphan Children

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The psychology Wendell Johnson executed a research with 22 orphan children, with the aim of finding out the reasons of why children stuttering. Half of the children were stutter and the other half were considered with perfect speaking. He mixed the children and then he split them in two groups. He used to encourage one of the group (whether were stutterers or not) by saying that everything is going to be fine and that they will overcome the stuttering. however, with the other group of children, he used to punish them and said to them that they should not speak if they are not going to speak properly. Throughout the time the children began to be affected and the results were manifested. Some of the orphan children were traumatised and with