GOLETA, Calif. – Across the state, Santa Barbara County has one of the highest percentages of students who struggle to speak fluent English, even more than down in Los Angeles County. A new state ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

Many parents have a desire to raise their children to be bilingual or multilingual (that is, speaking more than one language fluently). It seems that everyone has an opinion on the “right” way to ...

Bilingual children pose unique challenges for clinicians, and, until recently, there was little research on young bilinguals to guide clinical practice. In the past decade, however, research on ...

Bilingual phonological development represents a dynamic and complex interplay between two or more linguistic sound systems during early childhood. In bilingual contexts, children navigate multiple ...

In many parts of the world, growing up bilingual is the norm rather than the exception. A substantial proportion of these bilingual children acquire their two languages simultaneously from birth. A ...

Because of our unique demographics, Miami is poised to be the greatest bilingualism-promotor in the United States. Why is this goal worth pursuing? Substantial research shows that there are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We explored variation in the linguistic environments of hearing children of Deaf parents and how it was associated with their early bilingual ...