Multilingual Aspects of Fluency Disorders

Section One: Procedures, methods and findings for language and its disorders



Chap 1 Annick De Houwer. The speech of fluent child bilinguals



Chap 2 Ineke Mennen. Speech production in simultaneous and sequential bilinguals



Chap 3 Katharina Dworzynski. Genetics and language



Chap 4 Kate E. Watkins and Denise Klein. Brain structure and function in developmental stuttering and bilingualism



Section Two: Monolingual language diversity and stuttering



Chap 5 Peter Howell and Sarah Rusbridge. The speech and language characteristics of developmental stuttering in English speakers



Chap 6 Akira Ujihira. Stuttering in Japanese



Chap 7 Jennifer B. Watson, Courtney T. Byrd, Edna J. Carlo. Disfluent speech characteristics of monolingual Spanish-speaking children



Chap 8 Hamid Karimi and Reza Nilipour. Characteristics of developmental stuttering in Iran.



Chap 9 Monica de Britto Pereira. Stuttering research in Brazil: an overview



Chap 10 Anne-Marie Simon. A survey on traditional treatment practices for stuttering in Sub-Saharan Africa



Section Three: Bilingual language diversity, stuttering and its treatment



Chap 11 John Van Borsel Review of research on the relationship between bilingualism and stuttering.



Chap 12 Valerie P. C. Lim and Michelle Lincoln. Stuttering in English-Mandarin Bilinguals in Singapore.



Chap 13 Pei-Tzu Tsai, Valerie P. C. Lim, Shelley B. Brundage, and Nan Bernstein Ratner. Linguistic analysis of stuttering in bilinguals: Methodological challenges and solutions.



Chap 14 Rosalee C. Shenker. Treating bilingual stuttering in early childhood: Clinical Updates and Applications



Chap 15 Patricia M. Roberts. Methodology matters Conclusions



Chap 16 Peter Howell and John Van Borsel. Fluency disorders and language diversity: Lessons learned and future directions