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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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http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-924/study.htm
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