Fogle's Theory Of Stuttering

There are many theories surrounding stuttering. Nonetheless, it’s important to recognize that, in most cases, the etiology behind one’s stuttering is multifactorial. This means that no one theory fully explains one’s stuttering. With that being said, Fogle believes that there are 3 theories of stuttering, such as breakdown theory, repressed need theory, and the anticipatory struggle behavior theory. In the breakdown theory, the “onset of stuttering attribute the disorder to the effects of early environmental stress and usually assign an important role to neurological predisposition factors” (Fogle, 2013, p. 209). In this theory, both environment and genetics play a role in stuttering. This theory presents with the notion that in order for stuttering to occur, an individual must have a predisposition for stuttering in addition to an environmental trigger occurring. …show more content…
209). Thus speaking, stuttering occurs due to the fact that there’s an unmet need for a child and stuttering is the individual’s way of expressing the unmet need. This theory appears to bring about the notion that once an unmet need is met, one’s stuttering will go away. In the anticipatory struggle behavior theory, it “attributes stuttering to parental penalties for normal disfluency or to pressure extending to other speech failures” (Fogle, 2013, p. 209). In this theory, stuttering is considered to be a learned behavior because of the pressure or discouragement of their stuttering. All of these theories have there own reasoning behind stuttering. Nonetheless, researchers recognize that these etiologies do have the ability to combine together, making the etiology of stuttering