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From: Sharon Lee-Sheridan
Date: 10/17/02
Time: 8:59:25 PM
Remote Name: 128.101.250.21
Over the past few years I have had school-aged bilingual boys who stutter. Language samples were taken in their native languages as well as in English. The baserates indicated that they were generally more dysfluent in their first languages, but not significantly. In every case the bilingual parents stated that their sons were much more dysfluent in their first languages. On occasion, I brought other students who spoke their languages into therapy sessions to see if the therapy I was doing in English was impacting their first languages. My results were inconclusive. How important is it to monitor fluency in both languages?