Wendell Johnson assistant professor at the University of Iowa he was also a speech pathologist, he designed a project in 1939 to test his theory that non stutterers could be turned into stutterers simply by being told they poses stutter like quality. The project was conducted at an orphanage in Davenport Iowa by a Mary Tudor. The project was named the Tudor project but is known now as the Monster Study. Wendell Johnson was a stutterer himself he believed that stuttering was a learned behavior. His intension for the Tudor project was to test that if told you stutter that one would start. It however turned into something far worse. Johnson never mentioned the Tudor study in any of his works, he never discussed it with his fellow colleges. Some