Stuttering a learned behavior?

[RebeccaApril]

Hello everyone..just wondering what everyone thought about stuttering being a learned behavior? I dont think it is a learned behavior..i am believing it to be a involuntary way of speaking?? anyone have any insight? or can anyone explain to me why one may think of stuttering as a learned behavior??
RebeccaApril

[Danny]

Hi Rebecca,
I noticed you're also from Toronto :) I don't think stuttering is at all a learned behaviour. At least for me it wasn't!

[larryjr88]

The fact that it is genetically carried on means it's not learned. My father stutters, now I do.

[RebeccaApril]

Hey..i agree with both of you..i read somewhere that stuttering was considered a learned behavior..which i thought was absurd. No one in my family stutters, well my mom said she stuttered a little when she was young. I know that we dont really know the cause of stuttering..but i am having a hard time staying on track with my targets and staying fluent.

[Zach]

I've never felt or believed that stuttering was either 'a learned behavior' or a 'genetic' thing. I've always felt that stuttering was due to some form of trauma -- either psychological or physical -- that a person who stutters has experienced at some point in their life. At least, that's what I belief happened in my case; a psychological trauma.

Now that I'm thinking about it, and re-visited the stuttering issue in my own mind and memories, I think I would agree that stuttering could also be 'a learned behavior'. If a person (child), had a parent that stuttered... I could see how a child could learn to stutter... just as we all learned to speak our respective native languages, (as growing infants and children), by listening and being around our parents.

Best Regards,
Zach