Encouraging multilingualism at home could benefit kids with autism spectrum disorders, the researchers conclude, and could even provide a “natural intervention” for some types of executive function.

Children who grow up hearing and speaking multiple languages fluently have an advantage over their monolingual classmates, according to research conducted by Allyssa McCabe, professor of psychology.

Children raised to speak multiple languages show enhanced connectivity between different brain regions compared to their monolingual peers. There has been considerable debate on whether learning ...

Multilingualism is an incredibly valuable trait for people to have in today’s global economy, and it is ideal to begin learning multiple languages early in life. Children who know two or more ...

About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days speaking English and during term-time, home languages often take a back ...

Rauno Parrila receives funding from Australian Research Council and Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Valeria Maria Rigobon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

Language learning is a human universal. There is no human culture without language, and in every culture, children naturally pick up the language or languages used by those around them. Yet cultures ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - With large numbers of immigrants in the US, educators have been concerned about kids who speak one language at home and must learn english in american schools. However, a review ...

“Even before they can speak, baby and toddler brains are pre-wired to learn up to three languages,” says Julia Pimsleur Levine, founder and CEO of Little Pim, a foreign language-learning program for ...

Raising multilingual children in Norway is an arduous task for parents. Photo Credit: Oslo Kommune/Nikolai Kobets Freund Raising children in Norway to speak two, three or even four languages is a huge ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- In an increasingly global world, one woman is on a mission to cure Monolingualism one child at a time. You could call it the school of the future and with good reason. Children ...

Portrait of caring middle aged latin father helping, discussing homework with his son, school child while sitting together at the desk at home. Remote learning, family, fatherhood concept Kids with ...