Multilingual children: speech delay? The misconception surrounding speech delay in multilingual children may arise from the perception of parents who believe that their child's vocabulary and sentence production is slower compared to monolingual peers. Although multilingual children may have a smaller vocabulary in each language individually, scientific evidence suggests that their overall vocabulary size is comparable when considering all the languages. It is crucial to understand that multilingualism itself is not the cause of language difficulties. Language delay is unrelated to the number of languages a child speaks . If your child has received a diagnosis of language or speech delay, rest assured that raising them in different languages will not have any detrimental effects or exacerbate the delay. The only delay is our delay to understand them Any perceived delay in speech or comprehension is primarily on our part as observers or listeners, rather than indicating an actual d...