There's a lot of concern that kids are going to get confused, that they're not going

to understand how languages work, and what we tend to forget especially in America is

that globally multilingualism is the norm. We're actually kind of the anomaly in that way.

We see English as the majority of language of power that is the most important, but it's

not globally. Kids are learning multiple languages all the time and doing just fine.

Yes, there are instances of code mixing and code switching where you might see some words

in one language, some another. You might see grammatical patterns transfer over, but that's

not confusion. That's a normal part of language development. And those are things you're going

to see in a kid that speaks one language too. Welcome to the Peedstock Talk podcast.

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and leave reviews. So keep doing so and thank you so much. I am so grateful to have the

most amazing guest to guide you in your parenting journey. Topics about all things parenting,

child health, child development, and parental mental health. Today's guest is Alicia Gandhi. She is

a bilingual speech-language pathologist and clinical assistant professor of communicative

sciences and disorders at NYU. And she's joining me today to talk about misconceptions about

bilingualism, trial-lingualism. And I cannot wait to chat with her. Thank you for joining me today,

Alicia. It's great to be here. Thank you for having me, Dr. Mona. I am just so happy that we

can chat about this because there are a lot of misconceptions about speaking to languages,

especially for our younger kiddos when we are teaching them. But before we get into the conversation,

tell us more about yourself and why you love being a speech-language pathologist.

Yeah, of course. So I am a pediatric bilingual speech-language pathologist and I also am a clinical

educator and clinical assistant professor. I have set my career working in schools, early

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