Supporting Bilingual Speech and Multicultural Language Development Issues Committee Key Terms • Read books in both languages • Use songs to encourage imitation and engagement Second language acquisition - process of • Talk about the activities you are doing Facts and Myths learning a second language once the • Speak in your native language or the language(s) in native language is established which you are most comfortable about Bilingual • Participate in community activities to allow your Monolingual - a person who speaks only child the opportunity to practice communication one language skills in social situations Speech and Language • Encourage your child to speak in any language in which s/he is comfortable Development Bilingual - a person who speaks two languages

EMPOWERING AUDIOLOGISTS AND SLPS IN NJ References Sequential bilingual - a person who American Speech-Language-Hearing-Association. (n.d.). Bilingual Service learns a second language after the first Delivery: Key Issues [ASHA Practice Portal]. Retrieved from https://www. asha.org/PRPSpecificTopic.aspx?folderid=8589935225§ion=Key_ language has been established; the Issues#Bilingual_Service_Providers second language is typically introduced Fenner, K. (2017). Identifying Language Delay in Bilingual after age 3 Language Learners. Retrieved from http://www.specialkidstn.com/ therapyandnursingblog/2017/3/19/identifying-language-delay-in-bilingual- language-learners Simultaneous bilingual - a person who Paradis, J., Geneses, F., & Crago, M. (2011). Dual Language Development learns two languages at the same time; and Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning (2ndEdition), Baltimore, MD: Brookes both languages are introduced typically

Prath, S. (2016). Red Flags for Speech-Language Impairment in before age 3 Bilingual Children. The ASHA Leader, 21(11), 32-33. Doi:10.1044/leader. SCM.21112016.32 Code switching - instances when bilingual New Jersey speakers switch from one language to Speech-Language-Hearing Association another within the same sentence

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