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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 23 Oct 2009
Time: 07:13:50 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121
Dear Betsy, I would suggest you locate and read the chapter by Patricia Roberts and Rosalee Shenker intitled "Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering in Bilingual Speakers" in the book by Edward Conture and Richard Curlee, "Stuttering and Related Disorders of Fluency" (Thieme, 2007). Personally, I stutter much more in a second language I learned after I was 21 years old, even though I was pretty fluent in the early stages of learning it. That, however, is often not the typical pattern. Many people stutter LESS in their second or subsequent languages. Ken