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Children demonstrate gifted interpreting skills
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Illinois, USA (Chicago Tribune): For immigrant families, the traditional roles of parents and children often flip, with children serving as guides to a foreign culture and language. They accompany parents to the doctor to describe a sickness or to the bank to fill out mortgage applications. Critics long have said it's dangerous and unfair to lay the burdens of adulthood on children, but a growing body of research argues these young interpreters demonstrate memory and analytical abilities similar to those of students seen as gifted.
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