Raising your child to be bilingual has many benefits and is unlikely to delay language or development in any way. If you would like to raise your child to be bilingual, research suggests that children ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in the assessment of language development among bilingual families and in the identification of those children who require extra support to improve their ...

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 ...

Mark Antoniou receives funding from the Australian Research Council. By the age of two, children are typically able to say a few hundred words. My son, Alexander, was able to understand almost ...

Rebecca Ward has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council's Doctoral Training Partnership Programme and The Coleg Cymraeg. Eirini Sanoudaki collaborates with the Down’s Syndrome ...

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 ...