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From: Klaas Bakker; Missouri State University; Springfield, MO
Date: 16 Oct 2007
Time: 14:16:09 -0500
Remote Name: 146.7.150.239
Nancy, I would like to add that the answer to your question at least in part depends on a child's language skills (and perhaps also phonological skills). If these are strengths, I don't think bilingualism is an issue and the dysfluency can be treated just as dysfluency in other cases. However, if the child shows weaknesses in these areas and struggles with the bilingualism so to speak(it causes higher than average demands on the speaker), this could definitely interact with fluency. I would examine the feasibility of working on fluency in the primary language. Of course, if the language issues are major probably they deserve most of your attention as dysfluency could be a side product of this.