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Study finds all bilingualism gives kids an advantage

All bilingual children – regardless of the languages they speak – show cognitive advantages over their English-only peers, although they may experience weakness in areas like vocabulary acquisition, says a new study by 91ÑÇÉ« researchers. The study, published today in the journal Child Development, examined the effects of specific language pairings on children’s verbal and […]

91ÑÇÉ« study finds music-based training improves preschoolers' verbal IQ

A new study out of 91ÑÇÉ« finds that music-based cognitive training offers dramatic benefits for young children, including improved verbal intelligence.  The study, conducted at 91ÑÇÉ« and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, appeared online yesterday in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. It looked at children between the […]