Wendell Johnson was an American psychologist, author and was a proponent of general semantics.
10 Facts About Wendell Johnson
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Wendell Johnson was born in Roxbury, Kansas and died in Iowa City, Iowa where most of his life's work was based.
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Wendell Johnson developed a study with the hopes of gathering a better understanding into the depths of stuttering.
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Wendell Johnson's goal was to see if she would be able to cause children who spoke perfectly well to adopt a speech defect.
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Wendell Johnson drove to the Iowa Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' home where there were more than 600 orphans as well as children whose parents were unable to care for them.
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Wendell Johnson played a major role in the creation of the American Speech and Hearing Association.
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In 1930 Wendell Johnson published the book Because I Stutter, based on his master's thesis, which describes his struggles with stuttering from an autobiographical perspective.
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Wendell Johnson's book People in Quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment is an introduction to general semantics applied to psychotherapy.
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Wendell Johnson published many articles in his lifetime, in journals, including ETC: A Review of General Semantics.
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Wendell Johnson had a son, Nicholas Wendell Johnson who was the former American Federal Communications Commission commissioner from the years 1966 to 1973.