Wendell Johnson was an American psychologist, author and was a proponent of general semantics.
17 Facts About Wendell Johnson
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Wendell Andrew Leroy Johnson was born April 16,1906 in Roxbury, Kansas as the youngest child to Swedish immigrants Andrew and Mary Johnson.
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Wendell Johnson requested to be sent to schools to fix his stutter and was willing to try anything to cure it, but it proved to be lifelong.
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Wendell Johnson was president of his high school class, captain of the football, baseball, and basketball teams, and valedictorian.
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Wendell Johnson spent 2 years at a local college before moving to Iowa City, Iowa, to attend the University of Iowa.
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Wendell Johnson chose this school due to their renowned Speech Clinic in hopes to have his stutter cured.
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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 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 telling a non-stuttering child that they stuttered would cause stuttering, and if telling a stuttering child they did not stutter would cure them.
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At age 20, Wendell Johnson began his studies at the University of Iowa in 1926.
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Wendell Johnson won honors in English and Journalism before switching to Psychology.
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Wendell Johnson went on to earn his PhD in Clinical Psychology and Speech Pathology in 1931.
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Wendell Johnson met his wife, Edna Amanda Bockwoldt, at the University of Iowa and they married May 31,1929 in Galva, Iowa.
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In 1936, Wendell Johnson had to be rushed to the hospital for an appendicitis at age 30.