Stuttering in Other Countries/Cultures

• Words for Stuttering from around the world

Stuttering in Multicultural Populations - Online Resources

From: DIV 4 Task Force for Fluency Services in the Schools
Compiled by: Lourdes Ramos, Sandra Garzon, Nina Reeves
Disseminated by: Leslie Eckenthal and Lisa Cameron Rodriguez
Special appreciation to: Judith Kuster (additional resources added by Kuster since the project began)

• UCL Survey on Bilingualism and Stuttering by James Au-Yeung, Peter Howell, Steve Davis, Nicole Charles and Stevie Sackin, presented at at the 3rd World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Nyborg, Denmark, 7-11 August, 2000.
• Stuttering and the Bilingual Child SF brochure by Rosalee Shenker with recommendations for parents of bilingual children who present with speech disfluencies.
• Multicultural Issues/Advance Magazine - Special considerations for fluency services with African-American and Hispanic students
  • Fluency and Fluency Disorders Lab by Claudia Regina Furquim de Andrade, Brazil (1998.
  • Issues of culture and stuttering: A South African Perspective by Harsha Kathard, South Africa (1998.
  • India, Stuttering and Mixed-Up Speech Pathologists! by Ajit Harisinghani, India (1999)
  • The State of Stuttering in China by Sheree Reese (New Jersey, USA), Stefan Hoffmann (Germany) and Li Sheng Li (China) (1999)
  • Multicultural Considerations in the Treatment of Stuttering by Fred Hall (Massachusetts, USA) (2000)
  • Stuttering and Bilingualism in Children and Adults - Rosalee Shenker, Canada (2008)
  • Stuttering Study Group - An outline of the development of a bilingual stuttering study group for therapists who work with bilingual children who stutterPapers presented for the International Stuttering Awareness Day conferences about stuttering in other cultures/countries.
• Better insight into treating bilingual children who suffer from a stutter - 2004 article outlining a case study of a bilingual child who stutters
• Assessment and Treatment of Fluency Disorders in Bilingual Children - PowerPoint from University of Minnesota created to educate graduate students on stuttering in bilingual children
• Stammering in the Bilingual Child - Brochure from the British Stammering Association
• Bilingual Children more Likely to Stutter - News release regarding ongoing studies of stuttering and bilingualism
• Multicultural/Multilingual Issues Infused Courses: Sample Syllabi - Resources from ASHA on multicultural issues: A sample course syllabi of readings and resources dings available for study on stuttering and multicultural issues
• Linguistically Diverse Populations: Considerations and Resources for Assessment and Intervention - PowerPoint presentation from the Texas Speech and Hearing Association outlining general considerations for assessment and treatment of communication disorders in multicultural populations
• Public Knowledge of Stuttering: Cross-cultural perspectives - Article discussing societal perspectives of stuttering in various cultures
• Cultural Considerations in Assessing and Treating African Americans who Stutter - Article in Perspectives newsletter of ASHA's SIG 4 for Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Available if you are a member of any ASHA SIG
• Multicultural Considerations in Assessing and Treating Hispanic Americans - Article in Perspectives newsletter of ASHA's SIG 4 for Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Available if you are a member of any ASHA SIG
• Employing Latino Value Orientations to Facilitate Success in Stuttering Treatment - Article in Perspectives newsletter of ASHA's SIG 4 for Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Available if you are a member of and ASHA SIG
• Stuttering and Bilingualism: A review - review of available literature on stuttering and bilingualism (abstract only, full article is available to subscribers)
• The effects of bilingualism on stuttering during late childhood Arch Dis Child 2009;94:42-46 doi:10.1136/adc.2007.134114 (study by Peter Howell, Stephen Roger Davis, and Roberta Williams)
• Does bilingualism cause stuttering? a response posted by Mark Liberman with additional comments/discussion
• Comparison of Exchange Patterns of Stuttering in English and Spanish - Link to an article published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders.
• Prevalence of Stuttering in African American Preschoolers - Article outlining a study to determine the prevalence of stuttering in African American preschoolers as compared with same-age European Americans (abstract only, full article is available to subscribers)
• Stuttering in English-Mandarin Bilingual Speakers - abstract of an article related to the influence of language dominance on stuttering severity (full article is available to subscribers)

  Does Bilingualism Increase Stuttering? from the blog 2 Languages 2 Worlds

Non-English Information about Stuttering

For those of us who only understand English, Google has an excellent translation service. You can type in text or the URL and you will receive a rough translation.

• Afrikaans
  • Afrikaans translation of Stuttering Foundation Material
• Albanian
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Albanian
  • Shoqata Kosovare per Belbezim - The Kosovo Stuttering Association - in the Albanian language
• Arabic
  • Tah-Tah - The 1st Arabic Web Site for Stuttering
  • Arabic translations of Stuttering Foundation materials
• ArgentinaAPEM
• Bosnian
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Stuttering Association
• Bulgarian
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Bulgarian
• Chinese
  • China Stuttering Association
  • Stuttering Foundation materials translated into Chinese
    • A PDF file of the 58 page Chinese translation of "Self-therapy for Stutterers" by Malcolm Frazer, translated by Ye Huo Chun Feng, downloaded and sent by Wang Qiang
    • If Your Child Stutters: A Guide for Parents - translated by Wang Qiang (in hmtl or PDF format)
    • Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus
    • Notes to the teacher
    • If You Think Your Child Is Stuttering
    • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Chinese
• Czech
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Czech
• Danish
  • Foreningen for Stammere i Danmark
  • Dansk Videnscenter for Stammen, Stuttering Information Center of Denmark (DAVS)'s homepage.
• Dutch
  • VZW BEST - in Dutch, a Belgian support organisation.
  • Dutch Stuttering Association - Demosthenes
  • Stotterforum
  • NFS stotternen.nl
• Finnish
  • Finland's Ankyttajien Association
• French
  • France's Association Vaincre le Bégaiement
  • The French Association Parole-Begaiement - (Speech-Stuttering Association)
  • French translations of Stuttering Foundation materials.
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in French
• German
  • Ulrich Natke's information resource.
  • Ulrich Engelmann und Martin Mersmann's Stottern
  • Kasseler Stottertherapie - ein neues computerisiertes Intensivprogramm
  • Therapie-Sommercamp fuer stotternde Kinder and Jugendliche sponsored by the Oesterreich-Selbsthilfe-Initiative Stottern.
  • Andreas Starke's Stuttering Website
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in German
• Hebrew
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Hebrew
• Hindi
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Hindi
• Hungarian
  • Demoszthenesz
• Icelandic
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Icelandic
• India
  • Speech Therapy India (New Delhi)
  • Speech Foundation, India (Pune)
• Material from Satyendra Kumar Srivastava
  • 12 Questions on Stammering - in Hindi
  • 12 Questions on Stammering - English translation
• Italian
  • Associazione A.I.BA.COM. "Libera La Parola"
  • Centro Italiano Logoterapia Dinamica
  • Vivere Senza Balbuzie
  • Italian translation of Stuttering Foundation materials
• Japanese
  • Japan Stuttering Home Page
  • All Japan GeNyukai Association
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Japanese
• Korean
  • Korean Stuttering Home Page
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Korean
• Napelese
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Napelese
• Norwegian
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Norwegian
• Polish
  • Polish translations of Stuttering Foundation materials
• Portuguese
  • Portuguese translation of Self-Therapy for the Stutterer, a book from the Stuttering Foundation.
  • Brazilian Institute of fluency
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Portuguese
• Romanian
  • Romanian translation of Stuttering Foundation materials
• Russian
  • Russian
  • Russian translation of Stuttering Foundation materials
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Russian
• Serbian
  • Serbian translations of Stuttering Foundation materials
• Sloveian
  • Slovenian translation of Stuttering Foundation material
• Spanish
  • Spanish materials from the Stuttering Foundation.
  • Fundacion Americana de la Tartamudez
  • Nosotros los tartamudos, a Spanish website about stuttering.
  • Spain's Funadcion:Asociacion Española de la Tartamudez
  • Download Translations of the Stuttering Foundation brochures 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters and 7 Ways to Help the Child Who Stutters in Spanish
• Swahili
  • Swahili translation of Eelco de Geus's book Sometimes I Just Stutter, from the Stuttering Foundation.
• Swedish
  • Svenska sidan om stamning
  • Sweden's Self-Help-group for Stutterers, a local chapter in Stockholm.
  • Stamning by Gustaf Liljegren
  • Stamning och allt daeromkring by Anita Blom
• Thai
  • Thai translations of Stuttering Foundation materials
• Vietnamese
  • Speech Language Therapy in English and in Vietnamese
• Welsh
  • Oes gan eich plentyn ifanc chi atal dweud? information for parents from the BSA.