Playing With Words 365

Educating, inspiring, and empowering parents & professionals in supporting young children's overall development

  • Home
  • About
    • About Katie
      • Credentials, Training and Philosophy
      • How I Got Here
    • About This Blog
  • Blog
  • Child Development
    • Speech & Language Development from Birth to Five
    • Speech and Language 101
    • Toy Recommendations for Speech & Language Development
    • Sign Language 101
  • Speech Therapy
    • How to Help Your Child Talk
    • What You Can Expect From Speech Therapy {A Guide for Parents}
    • How to find an SLP
    • Speech Therapy Tips & Activities
    • Materials & Product Recommendations
    • SLP Forms, Charts, and Data Sheets
    • How To Elicit {Teach} Speech Sounds Series
    • Freebies!
  • Resources
    • for Parents & Caregivers
    • for SLPs
  • About My Life (Blog)

Speech Development in Bilingual Children

January 30, 2013 by Katie Filed Under: Bilingualism, Speech & Language 101 6 Comments

As a speech language pathologist, I am asked all the time about language development in children raised with more than one language, so I was thrilled when I was given this opportunity to share some information on this subject on All Done Monkey, a great blog written by a mother raising her children to be bilingual. The post went up on Monday, and you can check it out on the blog HERE and leave me a comment…what do you think?

speech development in bilingial children

See you over there!

About Katie

Katie is a licensed, credentialed and certified pediatric speech-language pathologist and mom to four (8, 6, 3 and 6 months). Her passion for educating, inspiring and empowering parents of children with all abilities led her to start her blog playing with words 365 where she shares information about speech & language development & intervention strategies, parenting, photography and a little about her family life too. Katie has been working in the field of speech pathology for 12 years and is certified in The Hanen Centre’s It Takes Two to Talk ® and Target Word ® programs and holds a certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). In addition to blogging and being a mommy, Katie works part time in her small private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can follow her on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

Comments

  1. arlene says

    April 11, 2013 at 2:42 am

    Mrs. Katie, you are really so great in explaining your craft. I had it understood here more than when I went to speech therapist. By the way I raised my son in bilingual language, Greek and English although English is not my native tongue.

    Reply
  2. Megie says

    May 4, 2013 at 12:57 pm

    I am raising a bilingual child. My daughter just turned 8 months. My husband and nanny speak to her in Albanian and I speak to her in English. I was wondering if there is anything I should do differently to help her learn both these languages. I am worried that she will not be able to speak both fluently. Is there any advice on how to ensure fluency in both languages?

    Reply
  3. Julia says

    May 20, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    Our child is struggling with three languages – English, Arabic and Russian. He’s approaching 4 y.o. and unfortunately none of the 3 languages is “formed”. It’s very alarming as we live in a developing country where none of the 3 languages is native and the speech therapists do NOT exist. Any advise on what to do? Thanks.

    Reply
    • Katie says

      May 22, 2013 at 12:06 pm

      Hi Julia,

      Trilingualism is a toughie, and it is hard to give you real advice without seeing the child. I have seen children grow up trilingual with NO issues, while others struggle. I know that Tatyana from Smart Speech Therapy LLC knows quite a bit about multilingualism and you may want to check out her blog for more info. Good luck!

      Reply
  4. roshanay says

    December 27, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    hello..
    my son is three years old.. our native language is different and we watch tv in hindi and english. his kindergarten is in German and English. so basically he listens 4 languages. He is still unable to make sentences in any one language. he understands, also he knows all colors, shapes, alphabets, digits,and at 2.5 years can arrange A-Z when given to him alphabets in random fashion . so is the case for 1-20.
    but we are badly worried as he cant express himself he holds our hands and drags us to things he needs. plz help me
    Roshanay

    Reply
  5. Cristina says

    July 31, 2017 at 11:26 am

    Hello Katie, I stumbled upon this blog a few days and absolutely love it! Thank you for all the useful information. I especially loved your post about bilingualism, because my husband and I (Spanish speakers) are raising our 5 month old daughter in Germany. If you find the time I would LOVE to read some practical tips from you about raising bilingual children. Our main concern is that she rejects our language, as it isn’t needed with her peers.
    Thanks!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CommentLuv badgeShow more posts

Looking for something?

Popular Posts

  • Top 10 Summer Top 10 Summer Activities to Encourage Your Toddler’s Speech Development {A Summer Challenge}
  • Feed Clover Collage Freebie Friday: FEED The Old Lady Who Swallowed the Clover
  • How to Elicit the k&g sounds How to Elicit (Teach) the K & G Sounds {Part One: Elicitation Techniques}
  • Feed The old Lady Chick Collage Freebie Friday: Feed The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick
  • 15+ Great Games for Speech, Language & Social Skills Development {ages 3-6}
  • The Night Before St The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day: Make a Leprechaun Trap!
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Child Development
  • Speech Therapy
  • Resources
  • About My Life (Blog)

Copyright © 2023 · Swank WordPress Theme By, PDCD