Babies start communicating with us from day one. The sounds they utter will become increasable intelligible: from cooing, to babbling, to monosyllable, bi-syllables up to sentences. The journey of language development in babies and infants is quick and has many facets. What many parents forget to consider is that gestures play an important role in […]
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Literacy skills and music: how our children learn to think in words or sentences
When parents ask me how to help their not verbal children start speaking I usually suggest techniques that involve music. The same goes with literacy skills. Musical notes and a free style of representing music and the spoken word can help our children understand how language works. How language can be “translated” into sounds, and […]
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Infant Communication Baby Sign Language with Multilingual Children
When I first heard about baby sign language, my children were already verbal. Here in Europe it seems not as common to teach babies and infants signs if they are not deaf growing up with deaf parents. I have since read about this and met families who have taught their babies how to sign words […]
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How to reactivate languages we have learned and we seem to have forgotten
Did you know that languages we acquired from infancy or learned later can be re-activated at any time? Even if we have the impression that we forgot all that we knew before, the process of reactivating them can be compared with muscle memory that allows us to ride a bike after years we didn’t practice, […]
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Good reads for Multilingual Families
Here are some of the books I read and use for my workshops, trainings and consultations.
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