Overview & Goals

IPATHA refers to “International Project on Attitudes Toward Human Attributes.” Long-term objectives of the IPATHA initiative are:

• to develop and make available for use a survey instrument that can effectively measure public attitudes toward stuttering and other stigmatizing conditions potentially in any part of the world.
• to foster and to evaluate effectiveness of strategies for reducing societal stigma to which people who stutter, who are mentally ill, who are obese, or manifest a variety of other negative attributes.

 

IPATHA was launched in 1999 as an international initiative devoted first to exploring public attitudes toward stuttering. Since that time wide-ranging research efforts have contributed the design, refinement, initial pilot-testing, and finalization of the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes-Stuttering(POSHA-S).