Speech Disfluencies in Bilingual Lebanese Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter.
Selma Saad MerouweRaymond BertramKurt EggersPublished in: American journal of speech-language pathology (2024)
The current study shows that speech disfluency percentages in bilingual CWNS typically surpass monolingual standards and can be at par with those of CWS. However, through careful consideration of disfluency characteristics, ideally in both languages, an accurate differential diagnosis of stuttering in bilingual children can be achieved.