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Whether multilingual development is helping or hurting your child

My four-year-old son speaks three languages at home but his teacher says he is delayed in English and suggests speech therapy and I do not know if I should worry.

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The parent questions whether the gift of multiple languages is being perceived as deficit by institutions that do not understand linguistic richness.

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