|About the presenter: Patricia M. Roberts, Ph.D., CCC-SLP,
SLP(C), currently Associate Professor in speech language
pathology at the University of Ottawa, in Canada's capital. She
holds degrees from Queen's University (Kingston, Canada) and
Florida State University and obtained her Ph.D. from the
Universite de Montreal.In her first career as a clinical SLP,
she worked with many bilingual clients and was privileged to
have the late Marie Poulos as colleague and mentor. She is
spending much of her 2nd career as a professor and researcher
trying to understand the many unsolved puzzles of bilingual
stuttering.| In this presentation, I will focus on four
mysteries (things we do not yet know) about stuttering in
bilingual children and adults and some of the myths associated
with these gaps in our current knowledge. To make this essay
easier to read, I won't say "bilingual or multilingual" each
time the word "bilingual" comes up but in most places, what
applies to bilinguals also applies to multilingual speakers - a