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===If You Don’t Speak English at Home=== Professional therapy is a wonderful resource. It can be a lifeline for busy parents, and many school districts offer it free of charge. However, there’s one case in which I strongly discourage it and advise parents to deliver therapy on their own. It’s when the therapist speaks a language your child does not yet recognize. Combining therapy with learning a new language will not kill two birds with one stone. On the contrary, it will distract your child and divert his brain from developing voluntary imagination to memorizing English words—exactly what I want you to avoid during the critical period. Not only does learning foreign words consume precious time, it is also stressful and exhausting. Many children leave the session restless and unable to focus for the rest of the day. That means very little voluntary imagination development until your child learns some English, and by then it may be too late. Learning a second language, on the other hand, is never too late. It will not be a problem once your child has mastered voluntary imagination. Many immigrant families and ethnic minorities raise young children in their native language only. If this is your case, and your preschooler does not understand English, do not put him through English language therapy. Request a therapist that speaks your language. And if that’s not an option, go it alone. This wiki will teach you how to do it.
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