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From: Brian Humphrey
Date: 16 Oct 2007
Time: 10:12:07 -0500
Remote Name: 137.52.96.230
You wrote: I was wondering if you had any secondary behaviors since you had stuttering problems after your brain aneurysm? Since stuttering is your specialty area, and you were aware of your stuttering, did you still have some secondary behaviors to ease your speech? My second question is, since you work on bilingual stuttering,too, I thought you might know another language. If so, did you have any stuttering in that language, in addition to your first language? - - - - - Thanks for the great questions. I didn't develop concomitant behaviors for a couple of reasons: it is speculated that concomitant behaviors are less common with acquired stuttering because it takes time to develop them. Also, since I knew what appropriate fluency strategies to try, I did not "stumble" into concomitant behaviors as as attempts to escape dysfluency. I understand fairly well, and I can speak Spanish, but I am not a fluent conversationalist. It did have an opportunity when at the height of my neurogenic stuttering experience to speak Spanish, and it did not occur to me to experiment to see if I stuttered bilingually. If Eva Nkowa is correct and stuttering can be expected to vary by only one degree of severity between languages, it is quite possible that I may have been fluent in Spanish. I stuttered mildly in English, I may have been expected to stutter moderately, mildly, or not at all in Spanish. BH