INFORMATION ABOUT 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/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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Turkey
EVERY CULTURE:
Cultures within America and World Cultures:
Multicultural America: https://www.everyculture.com/multi/
https://www.everyculture.com/multi/Sr-Z/Turkish-Americans.html
World Cultures: https://www.everyculture.com/wc/
https://www.everyculture.com/wc/Tajikistan-to-Zimbabwe/Turkey.html
https://www.everyculture.com/wc/Tajikistan-to-Zimbabwe/Turks.html
https://www.everyculture.com/wc/Tajikistan-to-Zimbabwe/Kurds.html
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 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.
http://www.culturalorientation.net/content/download/1341/7837/version/2/file/Meskhetian+Turks.pdf
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://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/turkish-culture
INFORMATION ON DEAFNESS AND HEARING LOSS
Integrated Scales of Development: Cochlear Corporation
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
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.
RESOURCES FROM MEDEL IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES:
https://www.medel.com/en-us/support/rehab/rehabilitation-downloads
CHOICES FROM AUSTRALIAN HEARING AVAILABLE IN OTHER LANGUAGES:
COCHLEAR CORPORATION:
Cochlear Corporation website can be viewed in many languages.
Languages: English, Greek, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish
Tips for Parents, What is early intervention, People Involved, Hearing Loss and Hearing Tests, How we hear, Hearing Loss, How Audiologists Test Hearing, Newborn Hearing Screening, What is an Audiogram, How Hearing Loss is Described, Hearing Aids: The Basics, What do Hearing Aids Do, Daily Hearing Check, Communication options, The Deaf Community
RESOURCES IN TURKISH FROM MEDEL:
https://www.medel.com/en-au/support/rehab/rehabilitation-downloads
LittlEars Diary
LittlEars Activities
Family Interaction
All in a Day
Murat Goes Shopping and many more resources available for free download in Turkish
https://s3.medel.com/pdf/US/bridge/23054-r4.0-BRIDGE-Catalog.pdf
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
TURKISH SIGN LANGUAGE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Sign_Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bePxHA8CLI
Turkish Alphabet in sign language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzMloMKXp5Y
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.887.3126&rep=rep1&type=pdf
file:///C:/Users/Chris/Downloads/TurkishSignLanguageGrammar.pdf
SPEECH/SPOKEN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION
CHARLES STUART UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acq-studies
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acquisition
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/languages
fhttps://cdn.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/393047/Turkish-information.pdf
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-assessments
ETHNOLOGUE:
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tur
http://www.language-archives.org/language/tur
ASHA (AMERICAN SPEECH LANGUAGE & HEARING ASSOCIATION) MULTICULTURAL:
https://www.asha.org/Practice/multicultural/Phono/
LANGUAGE ASSESSMENTS IN TURKISH:
MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories adaptation in Turkish
https://mb-cdi.stanford.edu/adaptations.html