http://spanglishbaby.com/ask-an-expert/ask-an-expert-we-have-a-lot-of-questions-about-our-childs-language-development/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://spanglishbaby.com/ask-an-expert/ask-an-expert-we-have-a-lot-of-questions-about-our-childs-language-development/#comment-15126 Güicho Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:03:58 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=9869#comment-15126 I had the similar issue with my daughter when she was 3 years old. My wife is North American and I am Mexican. I speak Spanish and English, and my wife just speaks English. Fortunately, the college where I was attending, WWU, has a great speech therapy program where they taught me how to work with my daughter… She learn everything with visuals, so I posted the whole ABCs and other basic words on the wall where she learned and memorized in record time, then she learned more complex words and then came more complex thoughts and full sentences. She is now 9 and she is as normal and smart as any 9 year old. She has some problems with Spanish because I focused more on letting her learn one language well, English. But now that I know that she is fine; I am pushing the Spanish language, so she can learn, and again, she does very well once she visualizes concepts, words, items… Let me tell you she knows how to use a computer better than most average person. She reads and understands directions well, and she is a very happy girl. I couldn’t be more proud of her.

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