Assistant Professor of Child and Family Studies at California State University in Los Angeles. She is the department’s expert in early multilingual development and has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Southern California. Simona is Italian and she’s also a mommy to trilingual daughters aged 3 and 4 1/2. In addition, she conducts a workshop titled: “How to Raise a Bilingual Child” in the LA area.
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Ask an Expert: Can My Child Be Fluent In 3 Languages & Attend an Immersion Program?
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Ask an Expert: How Can Monolingual Parents Raise a Bilingual Child?
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Ask an Expert: Should I be concerned about my daughter’s “academic” English?
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Ask an Expert: Is Chinese immersion a good idea for bilingual Spanish-English kids?
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Ask an Expert: Will my daughter lose her English skills over the summer if she has little exposure to it?
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Ask an Expert: My youngest child is having a hard time communicating in the minority language.
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Ask an Expert: What should I do if my daughter’s Spanish is better than her English?
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Ask an Expert: We Don´t Speak Spanish, but We Want Our Child to Learn
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Ask an Expert: What to do if my child mixes languages?
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Ask an Expert: Does Baby Sign Language Help Second Language Acquisition?
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Ask an Expert: How to Raise a Child from an English Speaking Home to Speak Spanish?
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Ask an Expert: One-Parent-One-Language from Birth?
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