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<div>Did you actually read what the link was about? It was about <font color="#003366">frenotomy</font> (cutting 1 to 1.5 cm from the strap of tissue linking the tongue to the floor of the mouth), and in a Reuters article, which I would not call scientific evidence, but rather someone quoting a hearsay. .</div>
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<div>Best</div>
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<div>Sharon <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:18 AM, parisa Daftarifard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pdaftaryfard@gmail.com">pdaftaryfard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Thank you for your question. Although Bilingualism might not be a risk factor (nobody said this for sure through research though) but would compound the situaiton if the child has the hiden autistic factors. Although there are many as you can read below suggest that early bilingualism might increase autistic symptoms.</div>
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<div><a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000085.html" target="_blank">http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000085.html</a></div>
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<div>who would like to create a risky situation for his or her kids. </div>
<div>1. There is no well known reason discovered for autism.</div>
<div>2. there are many disagreements about the way children learn language</div>
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<div>what your result would be? To rush the poor baby in a risky situation that some articles with limited number of subjects showed or in a natural situation where billions of children are grown up. </div>
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<div>Bilingualism can be achieved even when the baby starts speaking one language. Why should we expose our kids to two or three or even worse four languages to have maybe a healthy cognitively high (we don't know how much higher statistically?) boy in future and <strong>maybe not!</strong></div>
<div><strong>As a mother and researcher I suggest you give your kid time to learn his first language! then help him learn as many languages as he would like when he starts speaking.</strong></div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Parisa<font color="#888888"><br><br></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Mohinish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mohinish.s@gmail.com" target="_blank">mohinish.s@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I too share other posters' understanding that bilingualism is not a risk factor. In fact Kovács & Mehler (PNAS, 2009: <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/16/6556.short" target="_blank">http://www.pnas.org/content/106/16/6556.short</a>) show that there can be cognitive GAINS in 7-mo-old bilinguals, compared to monolinguals. </div>
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<div>I think there is a causal asymmetry - certain developmental trajectories that lead to abnormal conditions like autism might include language delays, but language delays by themselves need not be the CAUSE of these conditions; and I would be very interested to see evidence that language delay CAUSES problems like autism. We know that there can be substantial variation in, e.g, production, such that some kids start speaking earlier than others. I don't think that the later-speaking kids' 'delays' count as pathological at all.</div>
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<div>Parisa, could you include some key references that suggest that learning a single language early is better than learning multiple languages?</div>
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<div>Language delay is much more dangerous than loosing time for true bilingualism. There are many risk factors like being autistic, developmental delay and global delay in terms of cognition. I think recent psychology suggests for learning one language first and then being exposed to other languages. I can send you some books off list.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Parisa<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:55 AM, beachjade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beachjade@gmail.com" target="_blank">beachjade@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear Tamar and Yves,</div>
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<div>There is a recent paper by Janet Werker that may be relevant to your second question about how early should you expose your child to his many languages. In contrast to an earlier response to your post, my reading of the literature suggests that bilingualism/multilingualism in an of itself is not a risk factor in development. This is echoed by </div>
<div><br></div><a href="http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf</a>
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<div><a href="http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2010/werker.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2010/werker.cfm</a>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Tamar & Yves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tamarmr@gmail.com" target="_blank">tamarmr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hello all,<br>Our 10 months old son is exposed to 3 languages at home ( each one of<br>us is speaking to him his mother- tongue, and we speak English between<br>
us) and to a 4th one outside.<br><br><br>Soon he will be starting Nursery, and we were wondering what language<br>it should be in. Is it better to expose him simultaneously to all 4<br>languages or should we do it gradually over the first few years of his<br>
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and not sure how many languages he can learn at once.<br><br><br>We are aware of the large number of factors affecting the answer, but<br>does anyone know or refer us to research done on the specific issues<br>of (i) number of languages babies can learn and its implication on<br>
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