In 1940, Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa pioneers the fields of speech pathology and audiology. Throughout his life, Johnson seldom wrote anything that did not deal with stuttering except limericks, at which he excelled.

For a few years in the mid-1940’s he wrote occasional book reviews for the Chicago Sun Times, but even his major book, People in Quandaries, had one chapter on stuttering. Relative to Van Riper, Johnson’s writing always seemed more controlled and objective, more detached, more coolly ‘scientific.’