Table 3.

Concepts created for responses to the question “Please describe verbatim your self-disclosure statement.”.

Concept	Description	Examples
Educational	Statements included information about stuttering disfluencies/types or strategies used by the person who stutters while speaking.	“I am a stutterer. It’s a speech problem…All I want you to do is have patience, if I take too long while I speak.” “I sometimes stutter, or block - where I have trouble getting a sound out, so you may hear me do so, or see me look like I’m trying to get a word out.”
Apologetic	Statements included keywords and phrases that portrayed the AWS being regretful of their stuttering or apologetic to their listener.	“Please bear with me.” “I’m sorry. I stutter.”
Direct	Statements that were straightforward and included no education about stuttering or apologies of stuttering.	“I am a person who stutters.” “I stutter.” “By the way, I stutter.”