Melissa Baralt shared the following tips: 1. Read with your baby every day. Public libraries have books in many different languages! Interact with the book and with your child. 2. Learning can happen ...

A new study shows that encouraging bilingualism at home has many cognitive benefits for children, which may be particularly helpful in kids with autism spectrum disorder. According to research ...

A long line of research projects have found a range of benefits of bilingualism when it comes to the brain, from shortening recovery times from stroke to staving off the cognitive decline associated ...

Speaking two languages provides the enviable ability to make friends in unusual places. A new study suggests that bilingualism may also come with another benefit: improved memory in later life.

The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two languages might delay the onset of dementia symptoms in bilingual patients as compared to monolingual patients has reported a robust result.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A yellow smiley face bounces around a flat screen TV as a mesmerized toddler sits in front. He’s wearing a cap that cradles his head, attached to a bundle of wires. The baby seems ...

Today, in Sweden a large proportion of school pupils have a foreign background and switch between their home language and Swedish on a daily basis. However, bilingualism in itself does not bring any ...

The conclusions of a study carried out by Víctor Costumero, as the first author, Marco Calabria and Albert Costa (died in 2018), members of the Speech Production and Bilingualism (SPB) group at the ...

When the seal of biliteracy launched in California nearly a decade ago, its advocates envisioned an honor that would recognize English-language learners and native English speakers alike. But the way ...