When You Don't Learn Your Parent's Language, What Is Lost?

The mother of KQED reporter Izzy Bloom never taught her daughter to speak her native language, Japanese, because she was told by doctors that doing so would be detrimental to her brother, who has a rare genetic syndrome. The truth turned out to be more complicated.

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