When children learn another language after having acquired their first language or languages, they go through different stages that can vary from child to child and depend of how similar the additional language is to those the children already know. This infographic shows 5 stages that 3 to 8 year olds can go through when […]
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10 Stages of Bilingual Language Development
“Becoming bilingual, whether from birth of soon after, or subsequently in early childhood prior to schooling, entails a complex interaction between what children bring to the learning task, that is, among others, speech segmentation skills, speed of processing, and the linguistic and cultural environments in which they grow up” (Ludovica Serratrice, Becoming Bilingual in Early […]
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Simultaneous and Sequential Bilingualism
When parents speak more than one language it can be difficult to choose whether to introduce both or all of the languages from birth, or to rather wait until the child’s skills in one language have become established before introducing the second (or additional) language(s). Simultaneous bilingualism vs Sequential bilingualism Simultaneous bilingualism is when bilingualism is […]
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Single parents can raise a bilingual child
Raising a bilingual child successfully does not require both parents constantly present. There are many ways to make this work!
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Signs of Communication Disorders
How can we find out if our child has a communication disorder?
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