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The  Monster Study  was a  stuttering  experiment performed on 22 orphan children in  Davenport, Iowa  in 1939. It was conducted by  Wendell Johnson  at the  University of Iowa . Graduate student Mary Tudor conducted the experiment under Johnson's supervision. Half of the children received positive speech therapy, praising the fluency of their speech, and the other half, negative speech therapy, belittling the children for speech imperfections. Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects, and some retained speech problems for the rest of their lives. It was dubbed the "Monster Study" as some of Johnson's peers were horrified that he would experiment on orphan children to confirm a hypothesis. The experiment was kept hidden for fear Johnson's reputation would be tarnished in the wake of  human experiments conducted by the Nazis  during  World...

Cara McKenna Jul 15, 2016 Elizabeth Phillips, 77, had to fight to hold on to her language early in life. Now she’s trying to pass it on. Elizabeth Phillips reads aloud words in her Indigenous language. Cara McKenna APTN National News The Stó:lō people are named in their language after the Fraser River, which is the community’s lifeblood and flows through their picturesque territory southeast of Vancouver, B.C. Just a few generations ago, dozens of people spoke the nation’s language of Upriver Halkomelem. But in the last decade, almost all fluent speakers have died. There is just one elder left who early in life had to fight to keep her language, and is now trying to pass it on before it’s too late. The Knowledge Holder I try my best not to lose [my language], because I can’t have a conversation .” – Elizabeth Phillips, Stó:lō elder When Elizabeth Phillips was a child, she was put into St. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Mission. She was forbidden to speak the language that both...