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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear childes-readers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to ask you for some advice. I work
with language impaired children in the Netherlands and one of them has got
serious language delay, especially in lexical skills. She eldues to
gesticulation in both languages. I'd like to have some advice on what language
choice the parents should make. Is it better to have her exposed to one
language only or would it be more advisable to let both her parents
(German-Spanish and living in a mostly German environment) use their
mothertongues? I imagine that two languages are a little overtaxing for the
kid. Is simultaneous development of two lexicons two much for a language
impaired?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Grateful for any suggestion,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Edith Schlag, MSc, SLT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Delft, The Netherlands</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>