Autistic People’s Access to Bilingualism and Additional Language Learning: Identifying the Barriers and Facilitators for Equal Opportunities

Bilingualism is a valuable tool that enriches and facilitates cultural, social and lived experiences for autistic and non-autistic people alike. Research consistently finds no negative effects of bilingualism and highlights the potential for positive effects across cognitive and socio-cultural domains for autistic and non-autistic children.

Bilingualism and Autism Spectrum Disorder: What the Research Tells Us

Bileog eolais ó Ionad Uathachas, Ollscoil Washington | Information leaflet from the University of Washington Autism Center https://depts.washington.edu/uwautism/ Research from the UW Autism Center shows that bilingualism may actually provide benefits for children with ASD! It is important to remember that language development itself may occur at a similar pace between monolingual and bilingual children with ASD.