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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I speak English and his native language at home and struggled with what to do with our DS. He had major speech delays, some autistic and ADHD characteristics. We got very mixed advice from the specialists in his life, dev ped said stick to one language since he's having difficulty acquiring one, one SLP said do both languages and provided us with studies and literature about how bi- or multilingualism doesn't slow language development, etc. In the end we made a decision about what felt natural to us and that was to raise him bilingually. He's almost 5 and I am so glad we did. By now I know that even as he struggled so hard with expressive language and some pragmatics that he was still absorbing it all. He does well in both languages. He still has "issues", we still intervene, but I think he's benefitted from having both languages.[/quote]
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