Because migrant children whose language and culture are unfamiliar find it immediately difficult to make friends with local children, sports coaches and trainers play a particularly important role.
So Dr Tallal and Dr Merzenich have founded a company, Scientific Learning, to sell a computer game intended to improve the hearing of children with language problems.
Young children pick up language, patterns of speech, ways to respond, meaning in image and word.
His wife is French, his children speak the language and the family has a house in Paris.
There had never been a fun, entertaining method to teach young children a second language before Little Pim.
One of the areas identified for early years intervention was children's language development.
One volunteer, for example, wants to write a storybook for children in her language (Shughni), and also a recipe book.
Combined with coaching lessons for parents, , the plan is designed to help poor children overcome a language skills deficit that develops before they even start kindergarten.
As we celebrate Room to Read's tenth anniversary, we can look back on building more than 1, 200 schools and10, 000 libraries, publishing 433 local language children's books in 22 languages and supporting almost 9, 000 girls through our Girls' Education Program.
Leading the debate Leighton Andrews AM explained that the strategy was working towards "encouraging and supporting the use of the Welsh language in families, increasing the provision of Welsh language activities for children and young people and strengthening the position of the Welsh language in the community".
School-age children who speak a language other than English at home are one of the fastest-growing populations.
And he believes the ability to speak more than one language makes children more tolerant and accepting.
Earlier this year, the director of the Basic Skills Agency warned that parents who have few conversations with their children are damaging their language development.
Immersed in English, children can absorb the language within months.
Although he is a Welsh speaker and his wife Lisa has learned the language, Mr Jones said their children learned English first because that was the language at home.
Although outsiders are sometimes enthusiastic about their children learning Gaelic, language campaigners admit that many locals have long thought that it is English that matters most for their bairns' future.
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At home, satellite television beams foreign-language programming at children whose German is already imperfect.
But with language, young children never know that they're beginners, Wooten said.
The recommendations - made by the government's Modern Languages Working Group - also suggest that children should learn a third language no later than P5.
Hispanic children had lower rates of disabilities than white or black children, which perhaps reflects language difficulties and other barriers to accessing health services rather than the true rate of disability.
They were hardworking, English Language Learners and their children were struggling, just as I had.
Children learning Jersey's native language need more opportunities to speak it, says a promoter of Jerriais.
Without such tools, children and parents who speak one language and teachers who speak another have no chance.
The questions can vary significantly from state to state, and in some places there's been criticism for including questions that identify children as being in need of language services when they are not.
It is well known that when deaf children interact they spontaneously create a sign language.
Cornish was added to the school census in 2005 after a campaign by some Cornish language and culture groups for children.
In all the Celtic fringes of the British Isles there are bitter memories of children being punished for speaking the wrong language.
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There were particular concerns that it would fail to engage with children who spoke English as a second language and pupils with special needs.
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