INFORMATION ABOUT HISTORY AND CULTURE
WHO SPEAKS DUTCH:
There are around 23 million native speakers of Dutch worldwide. Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders) and Suriname. Dutch is also an official language of Aruba, Curaçao and St Maarten.
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch that has evolved from the various Cape Dutch dialects spoken in South Africa and Namibia.
Frisian
Frisian is the native language of about 350,000 people in the province of Fryslân. It is closely related to Dutch and English.
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 Culture
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
Netherlands
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITIES COUNCIL OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
https://mccsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Working-Cross-Culturally-A-Guide.pdf
Dutch
INFORMATION ABOUT THE DUTCH LANGUAGE
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, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Sindhi, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
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
Listen, Learn and Talk
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian,
Spanish Swedish, Norwegian, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese
Focusing on the natural bond that exists between parents and their children, this auditory habilitation tool consists of a book and DVD. This program has been developed for both parents and professionals to compliment their child’s habilitation program. The program follows the natural development of the child from birth to school age, and contains ideas and strategies for developing spoken language through listening.
Integrated Scales of Development
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.
MEDEL IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES:
https://www.medel.com/en-us/support/rehab/rehabilitation-downloads
Languages: English, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, German, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayan, Sinhala, Korean, Mandarin, Romanian, Portuguese Brazilian, Danish, Farsi, Portuguese, French Canadian, Spanish Latinoamerica, Spanish USA, English USA, Indonesian, Marathi,
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