GOLETA, Calif. – Across the state, Santa Barbara County has one of the highest percentages of students who struggle to speak fluent English, even more than down in Los Angeles County. A new state ...

Bilingual phonological development represents a dynamic and complex interplay between two or more linguistic sound systems during early childhood. In bilingual contexts, children navigate multiple ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in the assessment of language development among bilingual families and in the identification of those children who require extra support to improve their ...

Bilingual children pose unique challenges for clinicians, and, until recently, there was little research on young bilinguals to guide clinical practice. In the past decade, however, research on ...

Many parents have a desire to raise their children to be bilingual or multilingual (that is, speaking more than one language fluently). It seems that everyone has an opinion on the “right” way to ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. Martha Hernandez, who began her ...

Amanda Owen Van Horne sits on the floor while a child mixes up cake batter in a play kitchen. While at play, an intensive language therapy program is also underway for preschool-aged children with ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study reveals that Spanish-primary-language parents in the U.S. wish to raise their children bilingually. The study, which examines the attitudes, beliefs, and ...

Almost 2,000 Schools and Districts Choose Lexia® English Language Development™ to Support Emergent Bilingual Students’ English Language Acquisition In recent months, almost 2,000 schools and districts ...