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Thread poster: Monica Verwoerd
Maluchik
Maluchik
United States
Tetra lingual Aug 5, 2013

Hi,

Thanks for opening such an important topic.

I do raise my kids in the multilingual environment. I see families doing just fine speaking two or three languages, and their kids, although with delays, are brilliantly developing all of them.

However, I also know cases, including my own, when some kids, mainly boys, go nonverbal till very late. And I'm not talking about three or four years old. I mean they enter elementary school with no language.
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Hi,

Thanks for opening such an important topic.

I do raise my kids in the multilingual environment. I see families doing just fine speaking two or three languages, and their kids, although with delays, are brilliantly developing all of them.

However, I also know cases, including my own, when some kids, mainly boys, go nonverbal till very late. And I'm not talking about three or four years old. I mean they enter elementary school with no language.

My little son grew up in four - residing in France my French-Japanese husband spoke Japanese to him, I spoke Russian and between us we always communicated in English. He said his first sentence when he was six. Now he's nine and there's a delay in everything due to his nonverbal development.

I hear about similar cases left and right. And I do believe we need closer look to this. And a speech therapy turns out to be a must have just to make sure child is developing correctly.

But it has to be the therapist who is familiar with the problem. Because I do agree, kids develop their linguistic abilities dramatically differently. ▲ Collapse
 
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