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My Daughter

From: Evodia Nyingsha - Cameroon
Date: 10/3/02
Time: 12:25:22 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.25

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I am a nurse by profession and a member of SCAC. It is my first time of taking part in your conference. Joe our Coordinator gave me some papers from the conference that I have read and have gathered much from there. My question concerns my first daughter who is a stutterer now.

I came to Douala from Buea in the English speaking part of Cameroon with my daughter when she was 4 years old and by then not stuttering. When she started mixing with her mates and learning French and the Bassa dialect that are spoken here she developed stuttering. Now she stutters and much in French and the Bassa dialect. When she speaks in my mother tongue or in English she is a bit fluent. Can I say that the change in the environment is the cause of her stuttering? Nobody stutters in my family. I am afraid as my second child will be 1 year soon and will copy her example.

Evodia


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