About 22 percent of school children in the United States do not speak English at home. Starting school with limited or no English skills may make keeping up with reading and vocabulary challenging. Trina Spencer, PhD, BCBA-D, an intervention scientist with the University of South Florida, says if parents are not proficient in English, they can use oral storytelling in their native language to build up their child’s language skills.
To learn more, watch the short news report below.
