Multilingual Aspects of Fluency Disorders

Peter Howell is an experimental psychologist and co-director of the Centre for Human Communications at University College London. His research interests are in speech production and perception and hearing.John Van Borsel is a neurolinguist teaching at the Ghent University (Belgium) and at the Veiga Almeida University in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Fluency disorders are one of his main research domains.

• Section One: Procedures, methods and findings for language and its disordersChap 1 Annick De Houwer. The speech of fluent child bilingualsChap 2 Ineke Mennen. Speech production in simultaneous and sequential bilingualsChap 3 Katharina Dworzynski. Genetics and languageChap 4 Kate E. Watkins and Denise Klein. Brain structure and function in developmental stuttering and bilingualismSection Two: Monolingual language diversity and stutteringChap 5 Peter Howell and Sarah Rusbridge. The speech and language characteristics of developmental stuttering in English speakersChap 6 Akira Ujihira. Stuttering in JapaneseChap 7 Jennifer B. Watson, Courtney T. Byrd, Edna J. Carlo. Disfluent speech characteristics of monolingual Spanish-speaking childrenChap 8 Hamid Karimi and Reza Nilipour. Characteristics of developmental stuttering in Iran.Chap 9 Mônica de Britto Pereira. Stuttering research in Brazil: an overviewChap 10 Anne-Marie Simon. A survey on traditional treatment practices for stuttering in Sub-Saharan AfricaSection Three: Bilingual language diversity, stuttering and its treatmentChap 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 ApplicationsChap 15 Patricia M. Roberts. Methodology matters ConclusionsChap 16 Peter Howell and John Van Borsel. Fluency disorders and language diversity: Lessons learned and future directions

Comprehensive, clear coverage of the complex topic of bilingualism and stuttering. Approaching this topic from a language perspective, all things are considered from genetic, cortical, and environment to cultural, clinical, even animistic factors! A must-have reference for clinicians and researchers alike!!