ArticleLanguage, speech, and hearing services in schools2015
The disfluent speech of bilingual spanish-english children: considerations for differential diagnosis of stuttering.
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- Improving Clinical Competence Through Simulated Training in Evidence-Based Practice for Stuttering: A Pilot Study.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2022Trial
- The Influence of Language Dominance, Type of Language, and Narrative Task on Speech Disfluencies in Typically Fluent Bilingual English-Mandarin Children.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) · 2026Article
- Risk factors and assessment methods for screening childhood-onset fluency disorders: a scoping review.CoDAS · 2026Article
- Disfluencies as a Window into Pragmatic Skills in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Autistic and Non-Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- The use of mazes over time in Spanish heritage speakers in the US.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Bilingualism as a risk factor for false reports of stuttering in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K:2011).Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Rates of Typical Disfluency in the Conversational Speech of 30-Month-Old Spanish-English Simultaneous Bilinguals.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2018Article
- Fluency Bank: A new resource for fluency research and practice.Journal of fluency disorders · 2018Article
- Developmental Stuttering in Children Who Are Hard of Hearing.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2017Article
- Why Stuttering Occurs: The Role of Cognitive Conflict and Control.Topics in language disordersArticle
- Linguistic aspects of stuttering: research updates on the language-fluency interface.Topics in language disordersArticle
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purposeThe primary purpose of this study was to describe the frequency and types of speech disfluencies that are produced by bilingual Spanish-English (SE) speaking children who do not stutter. The secondary purpose was to determine whether their disfluent speech is mediated by language dominance and/or language produced.
methodSpanish and English narratives (a retell and a tell in each language) were elicited and analyzed relative to the frequency and types of speech disfluencies produced. These data were compared with the monolingual English-speaking guidelines for differential diagnosis of stuttering.
resultsThe mean frequency of stuttering-like speech behaviors in the bilingual SE participants ranged from 3% to 22%, exceeding the monolingual English standard of 3 per 100 words. There was no significant frequency difference in stuttering-like or non-stuttering-like speech disfluency produced relative to the child's language dominance. There was a significant difference relative to the language the child was speaking; all children produced significantly more stuttering-like speech disfluencies in Spanish than in English.
conclusionResults demonstrate that the disfluent speech of bilingual SE children should be carefully considered relative to the complex nature of bilingualism.
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