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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd recommend asking your SLP. We asked our SLP her opinion and upon her suggestion we started speaking English to him. My child has a long history of ear troubles which has passed but left him with a suspected auditory processing disorder. ASD might have similar problems with processing. It truly helped his processing and retrieval of sounds.  We still continue our native language among us with my husband so he still gets some exposure to native language and I notice that he continues improving his skills in native language as well. We plan   increasing his immersion after he turns 4 after his processing and retrieval gets better. Hope this helps. Good luck!
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I can tell you from experience that SLPs usually have very little knowledge of language acquisition/bilingualism and that this "advice" reflects little more than American misconceptions about bilingualism.  Eliminating/reducing a second language does not speed up solving problems present in L1...[/quote]

Bilingualism is very beneficial to NT kids, but here we are talking about kids with a neurological disorder that makes speech/language acquisition very difficult for them, it's a completely different thing. I can tell you from experience that it does make a difference to eliminate the second language. My ASD kid started talking once we eliminated the second language: he was not talking before, even with the help of speech therapy, occupational therapy and VB programming. We decided to eliminate the second language after several months of therapy had made no difference, and as soon as we eliminate the second language, he started talking.[/quote]

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