Parents:
I found this article about yet another benefit of having your child learn a
second language:
Bilingualism Can Delay Onset of Dementia
Another good reason to learn a second language - is to keep mentally fit in
old age: The lifelong use of more than one language may delay the onset of
dementia by several years, according to a Canadian study cited by the German
health and medical publication Aerzte Zeitung.
The newspaper, published in the town of Neu-Isenburg, said that the greater
number of brain-cell connections was the likely reason.
Ellen Bialystok, a neuropsychologist at York University in Toronto, studied
230 people with cognitive disorders, 184 of them suffering from dementia.
The first symptoms of dementia in monolingual people appeared on average at
the age of 71. In bilingual people, however, the mean age was 75.5.
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Here's is a website that also supports learning a second language:
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-924/study.htm
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