How do bilingual/multilingual children develop language in the first years of life? And when should parents be concerned and when should they simply trust the process? Research shows that bilingual/multilingual language development follows the same fundamental development path as monolingual development, while also being shaped by the child’s linguistic environment, quality and quantity of […]
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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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Family Language Strategies
Parents who want to raise their children with more than one (or two) languages, often look for ways to make this work. A first step to find answers is to ask the right questions: What language should your child speak with whom, when and… why? Furthermore: Who else in your community speaks your language that […]
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