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An ISF-funded study investigating how stuttering is expressed across different languages in bilingual children.
The study has two main goals: 1) understand how stuttering is manifested across different languages in bilingual children; and 2) examine a relationship between observed disfluencies in children who do and do not stutter and self-perceived communication attitudes.
We examine speakers of seven different home languages — Russian, English, Yiddish, Amharic, French, Spanish, and Arabic — who speak Hebrew as the language of the society.
We collect data from a wide age range between 7 and 17, to understand how stuttering and communication attitudes are modified across ages.
By comparing between a home language and the societal language and by comparing observed disfluencies and self-perceived attitudes, we aim to provide a holistic evaluation of children's speech in both children who do and do not stutter. This knowledge is expected to inform clinicians regarding the role of children's perceptions of their speech. Educationalists will learn about bilingual children's language abilities in different situations, as perceived by children themselves.
This study is funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), grant number 2673/25.