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Comment on Codeswitching! by naturlig potensmiddel

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Comment on Bilingualism and Autism by Elizabeth D. Peña

Elizabeth D. Peña — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:12:34 +0000

Thanks for your comments. Hearing these stories is what keeps me doing what I’m doing. And know that bilingualism does not harm or slow down your child. Communication– in whatever language is available to your child is what is most critical.

Comment on Bilingualism and Autism by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:35:41 +0000

Oh how I’ve waited for a post like this. Though my son is not on the spectrum, he is developmentally delayed and presented with many autistic like behaviors at 3 years of age. Living in Italy, many Roman doctors and clinicians told us we should stop speaking English and focus on Italian. I completely disagreed, and now I have a bilingual child who is constantly growing and learning and COMMUNICATING with both of his families. The research cited is so critical in understanding what goes on in the minds of special needs children. Keep it coming!

Comment on Codeswitching Doesn’t Mean Confusion by Elizabeth D. Peña

Elizabeth D. Peña — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:00:53 +0000

Thanks for the link expatsincebirth– codeswitching and mixing is really interesting. It’s such a natural thing to do, yet people sometimes misinterpret it as being problematic.

Comment on About the Blog by expatsincebirth

expatsincebirth — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:34:20 +0000

Hi, I just nominated your blog for the Liebster Award

Comment on Codeswitching Doesn’t Mean Confusion by expatsincebirth

expatsincebirth — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:38:24 +0000

I like this topic! You probably know the articles François Grosjean published about this topic (I’ve mentioned it in my post, a while ago: http://expatsincebirth.com/2012/09/23/dont-worry-if-your-child-does-code-switching/).

Comment on Codeswitching Doesn’t Mean Confusion by Linguistic Link: Code-switching Doesn’t Mean Confusion | Bilingualism Research Today

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:30:26 +0000

[...] kids to speak two different languages confuse them? Read on at 2 Langauge 2 Worlds to find out in this study done on 606 five-year old children. The impetus of the study is to look at code-mixing in [...]

Comment on Dynamic assessment can contrbute to diagnostic decisions about bilinguals by Janet Patterson

Janet Patterson — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:14:42 +0000

Thanks for the broad view of the promise of DA. I’m looking forward to your DA and bilingual kindergarten children article.

We’re pleased that typically developing children with bilingual experience showed a pattern of improvement in their responses to two tasks presented in a graduated prompting framework (Patterson, Rodriguez & Dale). Our next step is to determine if responses to these tasks differentiate typically developing bilingual children from bilingual children with language disorders, but we’re not there yet.

Thanks for including our work!

Comment on Codeswitching Doesn’t Mean Confusion by Gabe K.

Gabe K. — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:50:48 +0000

Great information. I will consider this information when assessing, especially during narrative retell tasks.

Comment on Bilingualism does NOT increase risk for language impairment by Elizabeth D. Peña

Elizabeth D. Peña — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:50:25 +0000

Hi speech monster, sorry its taken so long for me to reply. I’m not really sure about learning an L2 during the middle school years, but I think that the same principles could apply. It’s often the case that learning a second language helps middle school children develop meta awareness of language generally. The other day I was driving the high school carpool kids who were studying for their Spanish semester final. One commented that they knew more about English grammar now that they were taking Spanish. So that could be helpful. The key for their success is to practice probably a lot more than what a typical kid might need, so there would need to be an awareness of that as well. But, really, we don’t know for sure. My prediction is that it would likely be difficult, not impossible and that there could be some positive benefits.