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Orphans bear scars of 1939 stuttering study legacy
Mary Korlaske Nixon learns she and 21 other Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home children were subjected to an experimental stuttering test led by Dr. Wendell Johnson. The study used pressure to induce stuttering in normal speakers, triggering lifelong trauma and anger as survivors confront the University of Iowa and Tudor years later.
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Knight Ridder
San Jose
Calif
Mary Korlaske
Mary Tudor
Tudor
University of Iowa
Korlaske
Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans
Davenport
Wendell Johnson
Dolly Hamer Sweeney
Mary
Sweeney
California
Shejy
Dorothy Ossman
Dorothy
Karlaske
Wisconsin
Johnson
Clarence Fifer
Hazel Potter
Jo In
Emmetsburg
United States
Navy
Iowa
Auschwitz
Franklin Silverman
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Dave Williams
Northern Tinois University
Iowa City
Speech and
Veterans’ Hospital
Ohnc
Silverman
Tricia Zebrowski
University of Iowa Library
Albert Einstein
Nicky
Nicholas Johnson
Duane Spriestersbach
Mary Korlaske Nixon
Jimmy Madden
San Bruno
Iowa Veterans Home
Marshalltown
San Jose Mercury News
Donna Hughes Collings
Des Moines
Ralph Fry
Nora Springs
Hazel Potter Dornbush
Fulton, Ill
Hazel
Robert Hamer
Waterloo
Jane Ann Pugh Fleming
Norma Jean Pugh
East Bay
Moraga
P.S
Joanne Hoyoung
Lee Mary Korlaske Nixon