Prevalence of stuttering in bilinguals
A NIPI-funded study measuring how often stuttering occurs in bilingual populations compared with monolingual peers.
Public health data on stuttering is almost entirely drawn from monolingual populations — yet more than half of the world's children grow up with two or more languages. This NIPI-funded study asks a simple question with important clinical implications: how prevalent is stuttering among bilinguals? We recruit children ages 6–12 across large language communities of Israel (speakers of Russian, English, and French), with the goal of producing the first large-scale prevalence estimate for bilingual children in the region.