Services

No expert on raising bilingual kids and want info that actually applies to YOUR family? 

Get the answers and information you need for your unique situation. 

Free discovery call

Wondering how I can help you? Let's connect in a free 15-minute discovery call to see how I can support your family or organization.

Personalized Consultation for Your Family [online or in-person]

In a personalized consultation, we focus on your specific situation, the questions you have about your family and practical strategies and tips that work for your family and goals. Get answers to your questions about raising your child(ren) with more than one language and hands-on strategies and practical tips for your family and unique situation. The consultation is tailored to your family, the particular languages involved in your life and the questions you have and the things you would like to discuss or know more about. 

Book or ask about a personalized consultation: anne@bilingualfamily.ca

Video call or in-person                            1 hour 15 minutes          CAN$195 (EUR 135)     (follow-up: CAN$180, EUR 125)

Connect with Anne from anywhere in the world from your phone, desktop, mobile or tablet device, or meet with Anne in-person in the Vancouver/Lower Mainland area (travel rate of $0.70 per km applies). In English or German. I will send you a questionnaire to complete before the consultation to help me best prepare for our meeting and make it targeted to your family's situation, questions, concerns and language goals.

Semi-Personalized Consultation for a Group of 2 to 5 Families [online]

A semi-personalized consultation is a great choice if you have friends that are also raising their children with more than one language. You can book a semi-personalized consultation for 2 to 5 multilingual families together. A semi-personalized consultation addresses how to raise a child with the languages present in each family and the main questions each family has. The consultation provides practical strategies and tips that work for each family and their language goals. I will send each family a brief questionnaire to complete before the consultation to help me best prepare for our meeting and address each family's situation and main concerns.

Book or ask about a semi-personalized consultation: anne@bilingualfamily.ca 

Video call                             1 hour 15 minutes         

 CAN$95 per family for 2-3 families  (EUR 65 per family)     

CAN$80 per family for 4-5 families (EUR 55 per family) (minimum 2 families, maximum 5 families)

Connect with Anne from anywhere in the world from your phone, desktop, mobile or tablet device. Available world-wide. In English or German. 

What's the difference between a personalized and a semi-personalized consultation?

Personalized consultation: 

• 1 family

• Family completes an in-depth  questionnaire before we meet to help me prepare a targeted consultation

• In-depth consultation addressing your specific family, questions, concerns, and goals

Semi-personalized consultation: 

• 2 - 5 families

• Each family completes a brief questionnaire before we meet to help me prepare a targeted consultation

• Targeted consultation with all families present simultaneously, addressing each family's situation and main concerns

• More cost-effective

Workshops for Bilingual and Multilingual Families [online or in-person]

Hands-on strategies and practical information to help families raise multilingual children

• How can my child become fluent in both English and my native language?

• What do I do when my children mix the two languages?

• What do I do when my children are reluctant to speak my language?

• Should we send our children to an immersion school? (e.g., French immersion, Mandarin-English immersion) 

• When should my children start to learn English?

• Does bilingualism cause language delay?

• What about reading and writing in each language?

Workshops provide parents with answers to their questions as well as hands-on strategies and practical information. In a workshop, participants will:

• • learn numerous practical strategies to address the challenges of bringing up children with more than one language,

  • receive expert answers to their questions about their unique situation and language combinations, and

  • develop an action plan to reach their family's language goals. 

Workshops can be tailored to a specific audience. Examples:

• Raising multilingual children in Vancouver

• Tips & tricks for families in immersion programs: Your questions answered (e.g., French immersion, Mandarin-English immersion)

• Welcome to Vancouver: Balancing English and your native language

• Raising trilingual children

• Raising children with [insert specific language here] in [insert specific location here]

• Reading and writing in multiple languages

• etc.

Would you like a workshop for multilingual families in your area?  Contact me to request a workshop. We can talk about what you need and how I can support you / what to cover in the workshop or presentation via email or in a free discovery call.

Presentations for Professionals [online or in-person]

Custom presentations on child multilingualism topics for  professionals such as early childhood educators, children's librarians, community health nurses, speech language pathologists, doctors, teachers and school administrators on a variety of topics surrounding multilingual first language acquisition and child multilingualism. Examples:

• • The early years: Best practices for multilingual families

  • Supporting heritage language learners in schools

  • Multilingual literacy: learning to read and write in two or more languages

  • Immersion school programs (e.g., French immersion, Mandarin-English immersion)

  • Bilingualism in children with language disorders

  • etc.

Contact me to request a presentation for your organization. We can talk about the details on what you need and how I can support you / what to cover in the presentation via email or in a free discovery call.