Parent Resources 

Read More about the Benefits of Foreign Language Learning for Kids

• 10 Tips for Raising a Global Child Huffington post

• The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages lists and summarizes many of the research studies supporting the benefits of foreign language for children.

• Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl is co-director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and co-author of The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn. Her TED talk on “The Linguistic Genius of Babies” has had more than two million views.

• Texas Education Agency  TEA Languages Other Than English

• “Reshaping the Mind: The Benefits of Bilingualism” by Ellen Bialystokhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4341987/

• “Bilingualism: consequences for mind and brain” by Ellen Bialystok, Fl Craik, Gigi Luk https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22464592

• “10 Amazing Benefits of Being Bilingual” by Chontelle Bonfiglio https://bilingualkidspot.com/2017/05/23/benefits-of-being-bilingual/

• “Why Bilinguals are Smarter” by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html