Hi, my name is Judy Thompson and it’s lovely to welcome you to my website. I am an Australian teacher who has taught in both Australian and overseas settings and I also train teachers to work with linguistically diverse students. I have as well, along the way, raised three children who are proudly bilingual. In the course of my professional and personal life I noticed how difficult it was for children to develop and maintain fluency in more than one language and this propelled me to explore through research and practice the reasons as to why.