How SLPs Can Foster Bilingual Skills in Students on the Autism Spectrum

In a recent online chat, SLP and bilingual researcher Betty Yu shares strategies for encouraging students and families to communicate in their heritage language. Participant: Is there ever an age or circumstance where you feel it is too late to start exposing a child to their heritage language? Betty Yu: It's never too late to start learning one's heritage language. Just as it's never too late to learn any additional language. A common occurrence in the U.S. is people start seriously learning (or re-learning) their heritage languages as adults, often in college, once they're mature enough to understand the benefits. Every family makes decisions about their language use and what they're going to pass on to their children in different ways, and for very personal...

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