Edinburgh based resources
- Edinburgh libraries: Have collections in a range of languages in libraries throughout Edinburgh.
- Multi-Cultural Family Base: An Edinburgh based voluntary organisation which aims to provide flexible and personalised services to children, young people and their families.
- Pregnancy and parents Centre in Edinburgh (formerly Birth Resource Centre): This centre provides support for women and their partners before and after childbirth. It has an international group, and a Japanese Language Group
- Scottish Polish Cultural Association, Edinburgh: Website for Polish People in Edinburgh
- German Church, Edinburgh: German speaking congregation in Edinburgh and Scotland
- Greek Orthodox Church, Edinburgh
Web based resources
- Multilingual family: a website to help multilingual families in the UK to meet up and to make the most of being multilingual. It includes an online forum for finding and communicating with families in the same geographical area and language resources.
- Ablekids: Online retailer of bilingual books, flashcards, picture dictionaries and other resources for children.
- Spanglish Baby: Raising Bilingual Kids: A website based in the US which focuses particularly on Spanish-English bilinguals, but has useful information for all bilingual families.
- Bilingue Per Gioco: A website for parents with Italian bilingual children.
- Nursery World Magazine. Learning & Development: All about ... bilingualism Nursery World, 7 May 2009. You need to register with Nursery World (free) to access this article. The magazine's archive contains several articles on bilingualism.
- ESOL Scotland: The national English for Speakers of Other Languages website.
- Growing up bilingual: a website with recommendations on books, blogs, websites and other resources as well as a forum.
- University of Hamburg's Bilingualism Advice Service for Parents: Please note, the phone line is for German speakers.
- Ask a Linguist: Bilingual and multilingual children
- Multilingual Living (formerly Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network): An American website for bilingual/bicultural families.
- Multilingual Family in the UK: A website with links to resources and a message board for multilingual families in the UK
- Multilingual Children's Association: A web guide to raising multilingual children
- Primary Languages (formerely National Advisory Centre on Early Language Learning): national gateway to advice, information and support for everyone interested in primary languages. Article from the Primary Languages Direct ezine: "The earlier the better?"
- Words for life: provides an overview of typical children's language development from birth to age 11.
- The Bilingual Family Newsletter Quarterly: Newsletter for multilingual and bilingual families
- Taalstudio, a Dutch company providing information on raising children bilingual.
- Bibliagora: Greek Children's Books
- Polydromo: A Greek service offering advice for bilingual families.
- Mantra Lingua: Bilingual Resources for Children
- Interview on Bilingualism with François Grosjean
- What parents want to know about bilingualism by François Grosjean
- The Right of the Deaf Child to Grow Up Bilingual: Article by François Grosjean, Professor Emeritus Université de Neuchâtel
- British Council: Learn English Central: Bilingualism by Jo Bertrand. Article about bringing up children to be bilingual
- Ask a Linguist FAQ: Bilingual and Multilingual Children: Another Perspective. Article from the Linguist List
- Cognitive Advantages to Bilingualism: Article on Wikipedia
- Multilingualism: Article on Wikipedia
- Two Languages are Better than One: Article from The Guardian
- Two languages' call for children: Article from the BBC news website, 21st February 2007
- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingualism: Article from BBC website
Books for general public
- Bilingual - Life and Reality, by François Grosjean, Harvard University Press, 2010
- Growing up with three languages. Birth to Eleven, by Xiao-Lei Wang, 2008, Multilingualism Matters
- A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism, by Colin Baker. 2nd Edition, 2000.
- The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents, by Edith Harding and Philip Riley. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- Raising Multilingual Children: Foreign Language Acquisition and Children, by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, 2000.
- Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical Guide, by Una Cunningham-Andersson and Staffan Andersson, 1999.
- Bilingual Children: a guide for parents and carers, by Foufou Savitzky, London Language and Literacy Unit, South Bank University, 1994.
- Raising a Bilingual Child, by Barbara Zurer Pearson, Random House 2008
