AboutKidsHealth.ca investigates how children deal best with the gift of language

AboutKidsHealth.ca, leading Canadian online provider of children’s health information, looks into how children are able to learn multiple languages much more easily than adults, and what parents can do to help.

Canadian-born, Christopher Woon was just a baby when he was first exposed to the mother tongue from his parents. While growing up in the English-speaking community of Port Hope, Ontario, he spoke exclusively in Korean in the house. Up until he was about 6, he would spend his summers visiting family in South Korea, and a few hours a day at a Hagwon, a private Korean summer school.

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Virtual assistant market meets future predictions from Chatbots.org

Chatbots.org - Virtual assistants & virtual agentsThe prediction by analysts that within the next few years least 15% of companies in the Fortune 1000 will use virtual assistants has been welcomed by the leading research and business community in human-like virtual assistants, Chatbots.org.
A virtual assistant is an intelligent character on a website, such as a 3d talking avatar representing a company, which answers questions from consumers on the company’s behalf, in natural language.

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Young adolescents with chronic conditions should begin preparing for adult care, advises AboutKidsHealth.ca

AboutKidsHealth.ca, leading online Canadian source for children’s health information, looks into what steps parents of children with chronic conditions can take to help them transition into adulthood taking charge of their own health.
Not long ago, it used to be that most children born with spina bifida would not survive to age 20. The condition, in which the spinal column does not close properly before birth, has several types and can create devastating problems. Over the decades however, surgery has helped improved both survival and the quality of life of these patients. Today, most children born with spina bifida will live full lives.

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