What is one of aspect of stuttering that is described by vicarious learning?
We have encountered an interesting example in our clinic related to what Starkweather has described as “the most obvious situation [of vicarious learning] in which a parent and child both stutter.” A current client, RV was adopted and there is some knowledge of stuttering in his birth parents. I have found RVs father to be somewhat more disfluent than is typical, and RV seems to emulate those patterns at times. So it cannot be a genetic reason for the father-son similarities in speech patterns in this case.
