My parents immediately enrolled me in Head Start, where I was lucky to have access to bilingual education, which supported and used my home language (Spanish) to help me develop proficiency and ...

In many cases, this means providing access to language assistance services. These include: telephone interpretation services trained professional interpreters bilingual staff interpreters family ...

friends and unqualified bilingual staff for medical interpretation is now expressly prohibited barring extreme circumstances. Patients must not be encouraged to turn down language access services ...

The accredited program trained 13 bilingual interpreters in professional standards for healthcare, social services, government and education.

New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. Parents hoping to raise bilingual children have long been given the advice to ...

Despite the growing need for bilingual education, it wasn’t until 2017 that Governor Charlie Baker overturned the 15-year law that banned it from most public schools. † Now, the state mandates that ...

Bilingual children from immigrant families are not two monolinguals in one. They develop each language at a slower pace because their learning is spread across two languages. A researcher shows ...

A new paper by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) reports that 40% of the global population does not access education ... needs of second-language learners. Teachers are rarely ...

Words are nonetheless all we have, so to bolster my faith, I turn to bilingual ... but that while language can be abused and twisted by forces beyond me, I have access to it, too.