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        • Amharic
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        • Burmese
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        • Information for Parents/Families who Read and Speak Mandarin/Cantonese
  • General Multicultural Info for Parents/Families
    • General Health in multiple languages
    • Developmental Milestones in Languages other than English
    • Intervention Tips: Reading, Language, Play, Music, Drama
  • General Multicultural Info for Providers
    • Developmental Milestones in Languages other than English
    • Intervention Tips: Reading, Language, Play, Music, Drama
    • Languages other than English spoken in the home
    • Deafness and Hearing Loss
    • Cultures and History

Information for Providers of Families/Parents who speak Gujarathi

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/

NURTURING CARE:

India

EVERY CULTURE:

Cultures within America and World Cultures:

https://www.everyculture.com/

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

https://www.everyculture.com/multi/A-Br/Asian-Indian-Americans.html

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,

India (HTML/PDF)

INFORMATION FROM AUSTRALIA:

QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA HEALTH:

https://www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/health_workers/cultdiver_guide

Information is available on:  Places of Transition, Ethnicity, Language, Ancestry, Language & Religion, Communication, Health, Health Beliefs and practices, Social Determinants of Health

Sri Lanka

CULTURAL ATLAS:

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

India, Sri Lanka

STARTTS:  SERVICE FOR THE TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION OF TORTURE AND TRAUMA SURVIVORS:

http://scoa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Participant-Booklet_STARTTS-Cultural-Competence-Workshop_May2018.pdf

East/South/Southeast Asia: Sri Lanka

MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITIES COUNCIL OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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

India

INFORMATION FOR PROVIDERS ABOUT LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN THE HOME:

WEEBLY LANGUAGE MANUALS:

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

Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Polish,

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

MULTILINGUAL SPEECH ASSESSMENTS:

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

INFORMATION ABOUT DEAFNESS AND HEARING LOSS

RESOURCES FROM MEDEL IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES:

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

https://www.academieinternationale.org/archives?pgid=k58ty4kk1-2f5a09ec-7929-4765-88f3-79c2bf6f46ad

View the archives for cue sheets in other languages

 

 

 

 

 

The Marion Downs Center Research team and Hands & Voices are proud to collaborate in bringing this site to you.

This web site has been developed as a partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder/Marion Downs Center and Hands & Voices. These pages contain research and information for researchers, practicing audiologists, teachers of the deaf, speech/language pathologists and early intervention providers providing services to families and children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Research information on the auditory skills, speech, language, cognitive, and social-emotional development of infants and children who are deaf or hard of hearing will be provided on this website.
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Hands & Voices and the Marion Downs Center Research team are proud to be co-partnering on this web site and working in collaboration to provide research and information that assists all those interested in assisting deaf and hard of hearing children and their families. Hands & Voices is a national non-profit parent-driven organization that provides communication-unbiased information, educational advocacy, parent-mentoring and much more to families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to the professionals who serve them. www.handsandvoices.org

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