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From: Vasu Parameswaran
Date: 07 Oct 2006
Time: 10:44:42 -0500
Remote Name: 69.248.127.181
This is NOT a rhetorical question but a genuine one and if you could atleast point me in a general direction, that would be great: Is there a comprehensive theory, or atleast any ongoing work towards building a theory, that explains stuttering? By comprehensive, I mean that it must explain atleast the following mysteries and then some: 1. Stuttering is almost absent when the stutterer speaks when alone. 2. Stuttering is almost absent when the stutterer sings. 3. Stuttering is almost absent when the stutterer choral-reads. 4. Stuttering is almost absent when the stutterer assumes a foreign accent or mimics somebody else. It seems like a lot of research effort has been (and is) spent in data gathering: doing surveys and the like of stutterers vs non-stutterers. But has there been any effort to "make sense" of the large amount of data collected so far and to build a theory? I know that the "diagnosogenic" theory has been discredited but Johnson atleast tried and failed. What about later theories like Sheehan's "role-conflict" theory for stuttering? Has that been discredited?