Wendell Johnson was a man who became a speech pathologist because that was what he needed. He was a man who his family diagnosed with a stutter early in his childhood. He became so self conscious of his speech that he made his stutter worse.Johnson felt that his family telling him he had a stutter made his condition learned. Soon, Johnson used this theory to create an experiment on orphan children with one of his graduate students, Mary Tudor.
Without their research it may have been years before it was discovered that stuttering could be a form of a learned behavior, but the way they carried out their experiment was unethical. They both willingly manipulated the minds of innocent children as well as the administrators of the orphanage.Both