Q&A: How to help a small bilingual child with the community language?

Q&A: How to help a small bilingual child with the community language?

  Question Hi! I am worried about my daughter who is three and a half years old. She was born in Sweden, but I raise her by myself and we speak only Dutch at our home. Her Dutch is fluent, and she has been very talkative for a long time, she speaks in long fluent...

Q&A: How to help a toddler exposed to several languages with her speech development?

Q&A: How to help a toddler exposed to several languages with her speech development?

  Question Hi, My first language is Arabic, my 2-year-old child is American. Me and my daughter live in Netherlands where people speak Dutch. I don't know which language my daughter will end up speaking. I talk to her mostly in English, but sometimes in Arabic. I...

Q&A: How can a monolingual professional offer Speech and Language Therapy for a bilingual child?

Q&A: How can a monolingual professional offer Speech and Language Therapy for a bilingual child?

  Question Hello, I am a Speech Language Pathologist in a school setting. I evaluated a 2 year 10 month old child who is a dual language learner. Dad speaks native language and English. Mom speaks native language and is just now learning English. Dad is concerned...

Q&A: How to add English as a third language for a 1-year-old?

Q&A: How to add English as a third language for a 1-year-old?

Question Dear coaches, Thank you for the great website and taking time to help parents. Reading your answers to others' questions gave me some general ideas about my concerns but still I have some topics in mind to ask you. So first I give a summary of our situation....

Q&A: How to help a 7-year-old improve her spoken language skills?

Q&A: How to help a 7-year-old improve her spoken language skills?

  Question Hi, My 7-year-old was born in Switzerland, but her father and I speak English at home. She has had some exposure to German since birth. She watches tv in German 5 days a week, attended two years of kindergarten and her first year of school in German,...

Q&A: How to start speaking your native language after years of using the majority language with your child?

Q&A: How to start speaking your native language after years of using the majority language with your child?

  Question Hello I'm very glad to find this website. I have three years old daughter. Our language is Urdu but we start communicating with our daughter in English. In start it was okay but now we are feeling difficulty to explain things to her in English as she...

Q&A: How to encourage a child’s minority languages and arrange language exposure?

Q&A: How to encourage a child’s minority languages and arrange language exposure?

Question   Hello, I am a Spanish native speaker living in Canada with my Jordanian husband and h little boys aged almost two and five. At home we speak three languages: me Spanish, husband Arabic and all of us English. My husband and I speak English to each...