HISTORY AND CULTURE

UNICEF:

Data from countries throughout the world is provided on individual countries and regions of the world on the topics of: Child health, Child Protection, Child Survival, Early Childhood Development, Education and Home Environments, HIV/AIDS, Maternal and newborn health, Nutrition, Sanitation and Water.

https://data.unicef.org/country/

Early Childhood Development, Early Childhood Education and Home Environments.

https://data.unicef.org/topic/early-childhood-development/development-status/

https://data.unicef.org/topic/early-childhood-development/early-childhood-education/

https://data.unicef.org/topic/early-childhood-development/home-environment/

PATIENT CARE GUIDE FROM THE CLEVELAND CLINIC:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/files/org/about/diversity/2016-diversity-toolkit.ashx

These pages contain information about:  Considerations before providing care, Meals, Hospital Attire, Communication, Rituals, End of Life Care

EVERY CULTURE

Cultures within America and World Cultures:

https://www.everyculture.com/

Multicultural America:  https://www.everyculture.com/multi/

The information from Multicultural America – Russian Americans describes the immigration groups from Russia

World Cultures:  https://www.everyculture.com/wc/

This website provides information by country on the topics of:  History, The beginning of Immigration, the Modern Era, Significant Immigration waves, Settlement Patterns (Acculturation/Assimilation), Traditions, Customs & Beliefs, Proverbs, Cuisine, Traditional Costumes, Dances & Songs, Holidays, Health Issues (Language, Family Community Dynamics), Education, Birth, Role of Women, Courtship & Weddings, Funerals (Religion, Employment and Economic Traditions, Politics and Government), Relationship with country of origin (Individual Group Contributions), Academia, Government, Media, Organizations and Associations, Museums and Research Centers.

Information is provided on cultures within America and World Cultures.

CULTURAL ORIENTATION RESOURCE CENTER:

http://www.culturalorientation.net/

http://www.culturalorientation.net/library/publications

These monographs, Background Material, contain information about: Modern history, government and economy, Health Care and Education, The Land (Geography, Urban/Rural), The People (Educational and Occupational Backgrounds, Ethnic, Religions and Religious Groups, Beliefs and Customs:(Religious Beliefs, Customs-Family and Family Relations, Gender Roles and Relations (Marriage, Parenting, Leadership), Healthcare beliefs and practices (Physical Health Care, Mental Health Care), Food, Drink, Smoking, Clothing)), Conditions in First Asylum Countries, Implications for Resettlement.

CULTURAL ATLAS AUSTRALIA

https://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/countries

Information for each culture are:  Core Concepts, Greetings, Religion, Family, Naming, Dates of Significance, Etiquette, Do’s and Don’ts, Communication, Other Considerations, Business Culture

https://mccsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Working-Cross-Culturally-A-Guide.pdf

INFORMATION ABOUT THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

AMERICAN SPEECH/LANGUAGE AND HEARING ASSOCIATION:  MULTICULTURAL WEBSITE

https://www.asha.org/practice/multicultural/Phono/

The information below is from the ASHA website

ASHA’s policy documents state that SLPs and audiologists must consider the sound systems of all the languages used by a client in order to provide appropriate assessment and treatment services. 

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY MULTICULTURAL TOPICS IN CSD:

Information below is from the Portland State University website

https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/multicsd/languages

https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/multicsd/languages/russian?authuser=0

WEEBLY LANGUAGE MANUALS:

http://languagemanuals.weebly.com/language-manuals-list.html

http://languagemanuals.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/5/3/4853169/russian.pdf

ETHNOLOGUE:

https://www.ethnologue.com/

OMNIGLOT:

https://omniglot.com/index.htm

Writing Systems: Constructed scripts, Languages (profiles, how to learn languages, language lessons, language names, language families), Multilingual pages (Useful phrases, silly phrases, phrase finder, numbers, time, colours, family words, terms of endearment, idioms, proverbs, tongue twisters, songs, stories),

PHRASES IN 50 LANGUAGES:

https://www.50languages.com/

MUSTGO:  WORLD LANGUAGES

https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/

Status, Dialects,  Structure (Sound, system, Syllable structure, Vowels, Consonants, Tones, Grammar (Nouns, Verbs, Sentence Markers, Word Order), Vocabulary, Writing,

SCHOOL-AGED SUBJECTS:

Ms. Pacifico’s site:

Find the Languages on the Left hand side of the website

Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Chin, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Karenni (Kaya Li), Karen, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Nepali, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrigna, Urdu, Vietnamese

https://www.buffaloschools.org/Page/17065

Grade Level Expectations: Arabic, Burmese, Karen, Nepali, Somali, Spanish

https://www.buffaloschools.org/Page/83944

https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/language-rbern/education/bilingual-glossaries-and-cognates

CHARLES STUART UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA:

ACQUISITION OF SPEECH IN EARLY CHILDHOOD IN MANY LANGUAGES:

http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acquisition

http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acq-studies

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY:  INTELLIGIBILITY IN SPEECH CONTEXT

http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/ics

COMPARING LANGUAGES:  INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET

http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/languages

MULTILINGUAL SPEECH ASSESSMENTS:

http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-assessments

INFORMATION ABOUT DEAFNESS AND HEARING LOSS

MEDEL WEBSITE:  REHABILITATION MATERIALS

https://www.medel.com/support/rehab/rehabilitation-downloads

Rehabilitation catalogue: 

https://www.medel.com/docs/librariesprovider3/rehabilitation-downloads/rehabiliation-product-catalogue/22031-9-0-rehabilitation-catalogue—english-2019.pdf?sfvrsn=60a3d945_2

Materials available in Russian

Most of the rehabilitation materials from Medel are available also in Russian

e.g. Common Objects Token Test, Little Listeners, Lesson Kits, LittlEars

COCHLEAR COPORATION:

Integrated Scales of Development

This comprehensive developmental chart identifies milestones in listening, receptive (what your child understands) and expressive (what your says) language speech, cognition (thinking) and social communication. A practical and easy to use form supports you in tracking your child’s development over the long term

INFORMATION ON HEARING SCREENING FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA EARLY HEARING

http://www.phsa.ca/bc-early-hearing/Documents/Background%20Russian.pdf

http://www.phsa.ca/search?k=Russian

http://www.phsa.ca/bc-early-hearing/Documents/Background Russian.pdf

www.phsa.ca/bc-early-hearing/…/Info for Parents Russian.pdf

http://www.phsa.ca/bc-early-hearing/Documents/Guide By Your Side – Russian.pdf

http://www.phsa.ca/health-info/hearing-loss-early-language/stories-from-families

CUED SPEECH:

Cued Speech – adapted in more than 50 languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cued_speech

https://cuedspeech.org/

Cued Speech Association website can be translated into many languages – go to the top of the website to change language

https://www.academieinternationale.org/cue-charts

View the archives for cue sheets in other languages

AUDITEC:

Speech discrimination tests in Arabic, Cantonese, Cebuano, Ethiopian (Amarigna, Tigrigna, and Oromiffa), French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tongan, Vietnamese DESCRIBED OR CAPTIONED MEDIA IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES:

https://mailchi.mp/dcmp/dcmp-jan-2019-newsletter?e=11288c7368

https://auditec.com/

Non-verbal-Non-Linguistic

https://auditec.com/category/non-verbal-stimuli-non-linguistic/

INSTITUTE FOR DISABILITIES RESEARCH AND TRAINING:  CENTER FOR ASL TOOLS TECHNOLOGY PROCESS AND SERVICES:

https://idrt.com/index.php

https://idrt.com/store/other-languages-and-cultures

Russian Sign Language for Children

AG BELL ASSOCIATION

www.agbell.org

using the tool at the bottom of the page, worldlingo.com will translate their Oral Deaf Education information into the following languages:  English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Greek and Korean.

DEAF WEBSITES:

http://www.deafwebsites.com/

lists websites regarding deafness around the world