A long line of research projects have found a range of benefits of bilingualism when it comes to the brain, from shortening recovery times from stroke to staving off the cognitive decline associated ...

Bilingualism offers more than just the ability to navigate multiple languages—it also has a profound impact on brain health. Research has increasingly shown that speaking more than one language can ...

Does being bilingual give young children a mental edge, or does it delay their learning? It depends on who you ask. Bilingual education is regarded by some in education policy circles as little more ...

Speaking more than one language has a number of practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world, but science shows it may also help your health. Recent research has found bilingualism may delay ...

Adriana Weisleder knows well the benefits of being bilingual: being able to communicate with one’s community, cultivating connection with one’s heritage culture, contributing to the richness and ...

Medical advances are causing a gradual increase in average life expectancy. However, this comes at a price, as the number of cases of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases grows with age.

Respecting language rights ultimately rests upon political will and leadership. It is a dual responsibility to ensure respect for Canadians’ language rights today and to safeguard our linguistic and ...

Aneta Karagiannidou and Yiotis Katsambas never questioned whether they would speak Greek to their 7-year-old son, Mihalis, whom the couple is raising in Los Angeles. While census data show a ...

The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two languages might delay the onset of dementia symptoms in bilingual patients as compared to monolingual patients has reported a robust result.

Shortly after Kathy Jones relocated to California, the retired professor decided she needed to learn to speak Spanish. “When I moved to San Diego, I would see all these young kids, mostly Latino kids, ...

As a society, we need to safeguard our official bilingualism not only to preserve our languages themselves and the ways in which we speak them, but also so that the cultures to which they are ...