ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the links between theories of stuttering and the treatment of stuttering. The treatment for young children called the multiprocess approach is based directly on the demands and capacities model. The anticipatory struggle hypothesis offers another example of the connection between theory and therapy. Another example to make the case is the covert repair hypothesis. Despite the fallacious reasoning inherent in using treatment success to support the theory from which it is derived, the validity of a theory would be questionable if its treatment were shown not to be successful. Applied helping professions such as speech-language pathology and medicine that strive to be scientific seek to base their treatment methods on clearly understood and articulated rationales. In turn, rationales for treatments may be based on theories of the causes of the disorders or diseases. To have a theory that provides a common context for scientific investigation is not wishful thinking but a legitimate goal of a mature science.
