re: Language barriers
Jan. 1st, 2003   8:48pm

I’m assuming that anyone interested in adopting those children would be well aware of those hurdles. But let me tell you, children can learn to speak a different language at a miraculous speed. We have children that come from Mexico and don’t speak english at the beginning of headstart year and by the end of the school year are speaking as any other youngster would.

 In Tatys headstart class there was a girl named Miriam that had been moved all the way to Ga from Mexico then put straight into headstart,I volunteered everyday then, and got to know the children. She didn’t speak during class about 6 months. I’m sure she had been traumatize. Anyway the first time she ever spoke, english or spanish, she told me in english there was a monster under the floor. I was so surprised that she could speak english. She had been learning all along. Guess what the monster was? She was telling me about the devil!! By the end of the year she was laughing and playing and talking like everyone else.

I wonder if there are any Croation Americans out there with CAH!!!

Hi Anne
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