More than 700 Polish-speaking students from 54 universities across the country and abroad took part in a research project ‘Predicting cluttering among young adults’ by completing specially prepared questionnaires. 

According to the Centre for Communication and PR at the University of Lodz (UŁ), this unique research, (the first in Poland, if not in the world), of such a broad scope, is being conducted by a team led by Dr Monika Kaźmierczak from the Department of Polish Dialectology and Logopedics (University of Lodz), a researcher and populariser of the phenomenon of disordered speech.

‘We are at the stage of compiling the data and we already know that some of them confirm the conclusions of other international studies on slurred speech, but there are also some surprising conclusions which will require further in-depth analysis’, said Dr Monika Kazmierczak. 

Conclusions from the analysis of the student self-assessment questionnaires will be popularised in various environments in order to raise public awareness of cluttering and to optimise the communication of people with cluttering in educational, professional or social spaces.

The findings of Dr Monika Kazmierczak’s team will be presented at The Third World Conference on Cluttering (16-17, September 2023 in Katowice, Poland).