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/
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.
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL REHABILITATION RESEARCH INFORMATION & EXCHANGE (CIRRIE)
REHABILITATION PROVIDER’S GUIDE TO CULTURES OF THE FOREIGN-BORN
Information provided: Introduction, Immigration History, Concept of Disability, Disability and Rehabilitation Systems, Communication between Consumers and Service Providers, Role of Family, Role of Community, Role of Religion, Gender, Holidays, Food Practices, Recommendations to Rehabilitation Service Providers
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
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITIES COUNCIL OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
https://mccsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Working-Cross-Culturally-A-Guide.pdf
INFORMATION ABOUT TAGALOG
AMERICAN SPEECH/LANGUAGE AND HEARING ASSOCIATION
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
BILINGUISTICS:
https://bilinguistics.com/filipino-tagalog-speech-sounds/
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
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
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-assessments
INFORMATION ABOUT DEAFNESS AND HEARING LOSS
STATE PARENT INFORMATION ABOUT EHDI PROGRAMS (Early Hearing Detection and intervention) in multiple languages
http://www.infanthearing.org/statematerials/index.html
Many states provide information in Spanish
See Hawaii for South Pacific Island languages: Chinese, Chuukese, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog, Tongan, Vietnamese
See California for Spanish, Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Lao, Russian, Vietnamese, Persian, Tagalog
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
DEAF WEBSITES:
http://www.deafwebsites.com/
lists websites regarding deafness around the world
COMMUNICATION & CUE CARDS:
http://www.culturaldiversity.com.au/service-providers/multilingual-resources/communication-cards
These are incredibly useful and are available for many languages
https://www.easternhealth.org.au/services/language-services/cue-cards/cue-cards-in-community-languages
These cue cards are available in many languages and can be extremely useful.