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From: Nan Ratner
Date: 23 Oct 2006
Time: 12:19:44 -0500
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203
There is virtually no published literature on this topic, so think about documenting it for possible publication, or collecting cases if you are in an environment that sees numerous cases like this (we here at Maryland are very interested in collecting bilingual stutterers' profiles in their two languages, so feel free to contact after the conference if you have possible clients for this study). However, I would think that therapy might have to address BOTH languages eventually, if cognitive and affective stressors differ WHEN the person uses the two languages - it shouldn't be an issue of the structure or the rate of the language itself. BTW, there are not data, to my knowledge that suggest dramatic rate differences among spoken languages, as suggested in the prior post. Even here in the States, we would get sampling error if NY/New Englanders such as myself were compared to stereotypical Southern women :-)