Bilingual children

Bilingual Children: a guide for parents and carers Home and away - catering for children who speak other languages Mother tongues - supporting multilingual children Viva o Portugues! - a guide for Portuguese-speaking parents and professionals More on bilingual children Quick tips: Talk to your baby in your own language

• Bilingual Children: a guide for parents and carers by Foufou Savitzky, London Language and Literacy Unit, 1994. This booklet aims to reassure parents who are teaching their children to speak one or more home languages, as well as English, that this will benefit their children. It gives information, research findings and answers to questions parents often ask. There is also a list of practical suggestions parents can use to encourage their children in their bilingualism. Copies of this booklet are available from Avanti Books, Tel: 01438 747000.
  
  
• SureStart Stockwell, in conjunction with partners LLU+ at London South Bank University, has produced a video and booklet to show the advantages of speaking more than one language to children. Viva o Portugues! is for Portuguese-speaking parents and carers, educators, health professionals and community workers, offering guidance and stimulating discussion on how to raise a child to speak both Portuguese and English. It is available to all schools and professionals in Lambeth, and can be loaned from LLU+ resources centre. Contact llupluspdc@lsbu.ac.uk
  
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