{"id":2795,"date":"2017-09-28T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.little-sponges.com\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2018-10-08T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:22:55","slug":"bilingual-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little-sponges.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/bilingual-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual and Monolingual Baby Brains are Different"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2795\" class=\"elementor elementor-2795 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-kwpgar5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"kwpgar5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-xhmy7ei\" data-id=\"xhmy7ei\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fusdsft elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fusdsft\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>Many parents know that\u00a0raising their\u00a0children bilingual\u00a0has huge benefits in today&#8217;s interdependent global\u00a0world.\u00a0\u00a0However, most people still\u00a0don&#8217;t \u00a0realize\u00a0that the benefits of bilingual education are far greater than the ability to speak multiple languages.\u00a0 In fact, the biggest benefit of bilingual education is the enhanced cognitive development.\u00a0 Thanks to modern technology, the benefit of exposing your children to multiple languages can be observed and measured in children\u00a0as early as 11 months of age. \u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>&#8220;Researchers at the University of Washington&#8217;s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences tested a group of 16 11-month-old babies, half of whom were raised with solely English speakers. The other half grew up with both Spanish and English spoken in their respective households.\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><p>Unsurprisingly, researchers found that while children raised with a single language in the household were able to process only English sounds, babies raised with two languages were naturally able to process both English and Spanish sounds.<\/p><p>Higher-functioning brains:\u00a0Especially interesting is a finding that bilingual babies had\u00a0more activity in their prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortexes. 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