Counseling # 1: Helping your child grow bilingual or multilingual
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This counseling session was designed to provide clear, evidence-based guidance on how your child develops speech and language in multiple languages and how you can confidently support them at home.
Some frequently asked questions answered in this counseling:
- Can my child learn more than one language, even with difficulties?
- What is normal to expect in bilingual/multilingual language development?
- How can I help at home? What materials and toys should I use?
- When should I worry? What is pathological?
- What about children with special needs, how to stimulate multiple languages?
Counseling # 2: Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Late Talkers
This counseling session is for families raising a bilingual/multilingual child with speech delay in more than one language.
- Who is a Late Talker?
- Can a Late Talker become bilingual or multilingual?
- What is normal in a bilingual/multilingual Late Talker vs. what is not?
- When to worry?
- What can parents do at home?
- What about children with special needs?
Counseling # 3: Understanding bilingualism/multilingualism and speech and language disorders
This counseling session is for bilingual and multilingual families who have children with any type of speech and language alteration and who want to better understand how possible limitations will impact the development of bilingualism and multilingualism at home, in school and in the environment.
- Speech and language disorders in bilingual/multilingual children
- How bilingual and multilingual assessment is performed
- How to maintain the mother tongue
- Language support at home, school and community
- When to seek help
- Reassurance for parents
- Myths vs. Facts: Paying attention to myths and truths in bilingual and multilingual education
