Bilingual Language Learning
10 articles in this category
Supporting Bilingual Children with Disabilities
Assessing and treating a bilingual child with a disability: look at every language, use dynamic assessment, and separate the disability from bilingualism.
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Bilingual Language Learning and Disability
Told to 'just speak English' because your child has a disability? What studies of Down syndrome, DLD and autism say about keeping the home language.
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How Bridging Therapy Works: Practical Approaches
What a bridging therapy session looks like at home or kindy, how interpreters and bilingual co-workers fit in, and how to keep every language strong.
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Bridging Therapy for Bilingual Children
Why therapy for a bilingual child should use the home language too, following Kohnert: pre-teaching concepts, bridging to English, coaching parents.
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The Truth About Raising Bilingual Children
Code-switching, vocabulary spread across two languages and how to count a bilingual child's words fairly: what typical bilingual development looks like in the research.
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Bilingual Language Learning: Busting the Myths
Does a second language confuse children or delay their talking? Three common bilingual myths, where they come from, and what the evidence shows.
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Speech Sound Patterns in Bilingual Children
Accent, transfer and dominance effects are typical; errors that fit neither language or low intelligibility in both are not. How to tell them apart.
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Bilingual Children and Speech Sounds: What's Typical
An accent is not a speech disorder. How two sound systems develop side by side, what cross-linguistic transfer looks like, and when to get an assessment.
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Building Concepts Across Two Languages: Strategies
Narrating routines in your home language, real objects, photos and gesture: ways to build concepts across two languages at home and in sessions.
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Bilingual Concept Development: What to Target
A child may learn 'under' in Vietnamese and meet the English word years later. How concepts cross languages and which ones therapy should target.
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