11.09.2008 Bilingual children stutter more Researchers at
University College London have found that children who started
speaking two languages from a young age, were more likely to
stutter at the age of eight to ten years than children who spoke
only one language or children who started learning a second
language later on in life. The study also indicates that it is
harder for bilingual children to overcome the speech impediment,
with only 25% of this group no longer stuttering at the age of
12. In the monolingual group over half of the children had
stopped stuttering by the age of 12. A small percentage (5%) of
the bilingual children stuttered in only a single language. For
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