Promoting bilingualism in the United States not only ensures that immigrants participate more fully in society and integrate more quickly, it also makes the nation and its democracy stronger, says ...

It was disheartening to see the suggestion that bilingualism is an area of study in which researchers are only recently “beginning to chip away at some long-held notions about second-language ...

During a visit to the pediatrician, the nurse heard me speak with a foreign accent and told me to use only English with my child. She said speaking another language would be “confusing” and have ...

Acquisition and active use of two languages have been suggested to train executive functions in the brain, such as focusing one's attention, suppressing interference from the environment, and ...

Being bilingual opens up new worlds to speakers. It also appears to hold off the onset of dementia. Commentator Barbara King says that for these... The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two ...

Melissa Baralt shared the following tips: 1. Read with your baby every day. Public libraries have books in many different languages! Interact with the book and with your child. 2. Learning can happen ...

Affecting more than one in a hundred children, autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. It has a particular impact on social interaction, including difficulties ...

Medical advances are causing a gradual increase in average life expectancy. However, this comes at a price, as the number of cases of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases grows with age.

he brain of someone who is bilingual or multilingual more efficiently processes information and, as one ages, it may be possible to more effectively stave off cognitive decline. The same study ...

Want to see how you fare on a test of inhibitory control? Take a Stroop effect test. Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at letters@northwestern.edu. Ever wonder about ...

Bilingualism is more common than ever before. According to Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley (EB), today more of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual than monolingual. Anyone can benefit from ...