How to raise bilingual children
The U.S is incredible diverse, with more than 150 different languages spoken just in Illinois households with school-age children.
Bilingualism has lifelong cognitive, social, economic, academic, and cultural benefits:
- It can give your children an academic and professional advantage
- It makes it easier to learn additional languages
- It helps to improve social skills
- It increases cultural awareness
- It has positive effects of the brain (better attention, multitasking and problem solving)
- It benefits your health (for example, it delays symptoms of Dementia and Alzheimer)
- It widens your horizons, makes travel easier and more enjoyable by interacting with the locals and making more friends
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These are some resources that will help you to promote the use of Spanish with your children/ students: