Cultural Resources
1. Multicultural Topics in Communications Sciences & Disorders website (MultiCSD): The site provides information about cultural and family considerations when working with individuals who speak the languages presented on the page.
https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/multicsd/home
- Pacific Islander Languages: Ilocano and Palauan.
- Other Asian Languages: Burmese, Cantonese, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Kannada, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Pashto, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, and Zou.
- Other Languages: Acholi, African American Vernacular English, American Sign Language, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bantu, Bengali, Bosnia, Chicano English, Chinuk Wawa, Chiukese, Colombian Spanish, Creole English Dialects, Croatian, Cuban Spanish, Dari, Farsi/Persian, French, German, Haitian Creole, Italian, Kurdish, Latin American Spanish, Maay-Maay, Mayan, Mixtec, Omoro, Polish, Puerto Rican Spanish, Romani, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, and Ukrainian.
2. Needs Assessment of Maryland Asian American Caregivers Raising Children with Developmental Disabilities: A team at the University of Maryland School of Social Work (UMSSW) conducted a research study to assess the needs of Asian American families raising children with Developmental Disabilities in Maryland. The research identified service providers, community collaborators, and other key aspects. The AANS report brief is published in a total of 15 languages.
https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/academics/faculty/sarah-dababnah/
- Pacific Islander Languages: Indonesian.
- Other Asian Languages: Burmese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Urdu and Vietnamese.
- Other Languages: Bengali and English.
3. The Popolo Project: The Pōpolo Project is a Hawai‘i-based nonprofit organization that redefines what it means to be Black in Hawai‘i. The website provides info about the project, the board, and events throughout the year. The website also provides personal stories, opportunities to volunteer, and a tab for “Understanding Race and Belonging in Hawai‘i– from plantation politics to brother Contacts for racial justice”.
https://www.thepopoloproject.org/understanding-race-belonging-in-hi
Language Resources
1. About World Languages: Overview— Status, Dialects, Structure: Sound System, Vowels, Consonants, Grammar, Nouns, Verbs, Word order, Vocabulary, Writing, “Did you know”, Language difficulty (how hard is it to learn).
https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/languages-a-z/
- Pacific Islander Languages: Hawaiian, Hawaiian Creole, Ilocano, Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), Javanese, Malagasy, Malay (Bahasa Belayu), and Samoan.
- Other Asian Languages: Azerbaijani, Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lao, Mandarin (Chinese), Malayalam, Mongolian, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Tibetic Languages, and Vietnamese.
- Other Languages: Many known languages.
2. Alsheimer’s Australia: Alzheimer’s Australia offers freely downloadable information about dementia in over forty (40) languages including Tao and Tagalog. After choosing a language all available information will be translated on the website, including help sheets, videos, and read aloud options.
https://www.dementia.org.au/languages
- Pacific Islander Languages: Indonesian and Tao.
- Other Asian Languages: Cantonese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Urdu.
- Other Languages: Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bengali, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Hazeragi (Hazaragi), Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Somali, Swahili, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
3. BASA: Sections— Learn (write and speak $$), Write (poetry, tattoo translations), Search Dictionary (dictionary, virtual library, word games), Teach. Preserving native languages: We are a collaboration of linguists, anthropologists, students, and laypeople, from within and outside of Bali, who are collaborating to keep Balinese strong and sustainable.
https://basabali.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA8Jf-BRB-EiwAWDtEGuE7H2VAQ3-gU9w4EpfHlTBVjuLS-lEoJ78bOoxOWxuGIBAzI_7EehoC8U0QAvD_BwE
- Pacific Islander Languages: Balinese.
4. International Dialects of English Archive: Audio recording of dialects of women and men aged 29-49 on the Dialects & Accents page.
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/asia
- Pacific Islander speakers: Fiji, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
- Other Asian speakers: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
- Other Languages: Speakers in Africa, Australia-Oceania, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Middle East, North America and South America.
5. Ethnomed: Language: Features videos of native speakers saying phrases of courtesy in nine languages. These phrases of greeting, introduction, acknowledgment, departure and for emergency situations in a clinical setting can be played at a normal speed and at a slow speed.
https://ethnomed.org/resource/phrases-of-courtesy-in-nine-languages-a-tool-for-medical-providers/ and click on “Phrases of Courtesy Tool”
- Pacific Islander Languages: N/A
- Other Asian Languages: Chinese, Khmer and Vietnamese
- Other languages: Amharic, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Tigrigna
6. Ethnologue: Languages of the world: Provides profiles of every language and country on earth, maps where each language is spoken, allows you to search and cross-reference, and is regularly updated. Browse languages by name, region, language code, or language family. Includes every recognized language that is still used today. The website offers a comprehensive list of world languages.
https://www.ethnologue.com/browse/names
- Pacific Islander Languages: Bikol, Cham, Carolinian, Chamorro, Fijian, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Ilocano, Malay, Malagasy, Maori, Marshallese, Marquesan, Mokilese, Mortlockese, Minangkabau, Nukuoro, Nauruan, Palau, Pangasinan, Samoan, Sudanese, Tokelauan, Tongan, Ulithean, and Yapese.
- Other Asian Languages: Azerbaijani, Burmese, Burushaski, Cambodian, Chinese, Gondi, Hmong, Japanese, Kannada, Karakalpak, Karachay, Kazakh, Korean, Malayalam, Mongolian, Munda, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, and Vietnamese.
- Other Languages: Many known languages.
7. International Phonetic Association: “The IPA is the major as well as the oldest representative organization for phoneticians. It was established in 1886 in Paris. The aim of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. In furtherance of this aim, the IPA provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages – the International Phonetic Alphabet (also IPA)”.
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-fonts
- All Known Phonetic Sounds/Symbols.
8. Multicultural Topics in Communications Sciences & Disorders website (MultiCSD): The website provides information for a variety of languages pertaining to the phonology, grammar, alphabets, and/or syntax of theses languages.
https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/multicsd/home
- Pacific Islander Languages: Ilocano and Palauan.
- Other Asian Languages: Burmese, Cantonese, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Kannada, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Pashto, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, and Zou.
- Other Languages: Acholi, African American Vernacular English, American Sign Language, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bantu, Bengali, Bosnia, Chicano English, Chinuk Wawa, Chiukese, Colombian Spanish, Creole English Dialects, Croatian, Cuban Spanish, Dari, Farsi/Persian, French, German, Haitian Creole, Italian, Kurdish, Latin American Spanish, Maay-Maay, Mayan, Mixtec, Omoro, Polish, Puerto Rican Spanish, Romani, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, and Ukrainian.
9. Multilingual Children’s Speech by Sharynne McLeod, Ph.D.: The site contains resources about speech acquisition, IPA, and intelligibility in a context scale as well as speech assessments for specific languages.
https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
- Pacific Islander Languages: Fijian, Indonesian, Malay, and Samoan.
- Other Asian Languages: Cantonese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Filipino, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
- Other Languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Assyrian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Panjabi/Panjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Venda, Welsh, Xhosa, Zapotec, and Zulu.
10. Omniglot: The Omniglot “Useful Foreign Phrases” webpage offers a “collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in many different languages with sound files for quite a few of them”. Available phrases include numbers, animal sound, family terms, terms of endearment and many others.
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/index.htm#lang
- Pacific Islander Languages: Balinese, Banjar, Central Dusun, Chamorro (Guam dialect), Chamorro (North Marianas dialect), Coastal Kadazan, Fijian, Hawaiian, Iban, Indonesian, Javanese, Ilocano, Malagasy, Malay, Māori, Marshallese, Niuean, Palauan, Samoan, Tahitian, Tetum, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tuvaluan, and Yapese.
- Other Asian Languages: Burmese, Cantonese, Dzongkha, Hakka, Hindi, Japanese, Kam, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Manipuri, Mongolian, Newar, Okinawan, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Tagalog, Teochew, Tibetan, Thai, and Vietnamese.
- Other Languages: Central Dusun, Coastal Kadazan, Iban, Tetum, Chuukese, Kiribati, e, Pohnpeian, Aklan, Capiznon, Cebuano, Cuyonon, Hiligaynon, Iloko, Niuean, Rapa Nui, Tokelauan, and Tuvaluan.
11. Phonemic Inventories Across Languages: Provides phonetic inventories and cultural/linguistic information for more than 19 languages and dialects, including Tagalog. This resource is intended to “contribute to foundational awareness of potential cultural and linguistic influences”.
https://www.asha.org/practice/multicultural/Phono/
- Other Asian Languages: Japanese, Hmong, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandrin Chinese, Korean, Pashto, Persian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
- Other Languages: Arabic, Bosnian, Haitian, Creole, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Somali, Turkish, and African American Vernacular English.
12. The Language Blend – Chihui Y, CCC-SLP: The site contains a list of Chihu Y’s favorite recourses regarding multilingualism, swallowing, AAC, aphasia, and speech and language. Additionally, there is a form parents or caregivers can fill out to discuss their child’s specific needs with her.
https://thelanguageblend.wordpress.com/
- Pacific Islander Languages: Malay.
- Other Asian Languages: Mandarin Chinese.
- Other languages: English.
13. The Speech Accent Archive: A research and teaching tool that is meant to be used by linguists and other individuals who are wanting to listen and compare accents of different English speakers. This resource allows for the ability to compare speakers of diverse demographic and linguistic backgrounds to determine which components are the significant predictors of each accent.
http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_native.php
- Pacific Islander Languages: Bikol, Bisayan, Carolinian, Cham, Chamorro, Fijian, Gilbertese, Hawaiian, Ilocano, Indonesian, Javanese, Malagasy, Malay, Maori, Mortlockese, Sundanese, Tongan, Ulithean, and Yapese.
- Other Asian Languages: Azerbaijani, Burmese, Cantonese, Chinese, Filipino, Hakka, Hmong, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Korean, Lao, Malayalam, Mandarin, Mongolian, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Thai, Turkish, Uyghur, Vietnamese, and Wu.
- Other Languages: Many other languages.
14. World Language -The Ultimate Language Store: The website provides information and resources for hundreds of languages. The amount of information and materials available depends on each language. You can shop by language, product type, or county. There are a variety of resources including dictionaries, books, movies/videos, school/classroom materials, children’s books, and alphabets.
www.worldlanguage.com
- Pacific Islander Languages: Achinese, Bikol, Balinese, Carolinian, Cham, Chamorro, Fijian, Gilbertese, Hawaiian, Ilocano, Indonesian, Javanese, Malagasy, Malay, Maori, Marshallese, Marquesan, Melanesian, Minangkabau, Nauruan, Niuean, Palau, Pampangan, Pangasinan, Ponapean, Rarotongan, Samoan, Sundanese, Tokelauan, Tongan, Trukese, and Yapese.
- Other Asian Languages: Azerbaijani, Burmese, Burushaski, Cambodian (Khmer), Cantonese, Chinese, Filipino, Gondi, Hakka, Hmong, Japanese, Laotian (Loa), Kachin, Kannafa, Karachay, Karakalpak, Karen, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Malayalam, Mandarin, Mongolian, Tagalog, Tamil, Telufu, Thia, Tibetan, Tungus, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, and Vietnamese.
- Other Languages: Many other languages.
Assessment Resources
1. BAT— Bilingual Aphasia Test: Test designed to assess bilingual/multilingual aphasic patients.
https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/research/bat#langtests
- Pacific Islander Languages: Malagasy.
- Other Asian Languages: Cantonese, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
- Other languages: Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azari, Balochi, Basque, Berber, Bosnian, Brazilian Portugese, Bulgarian, Carinthian, Castilian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dholuo, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gilaki, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Italian, Jordanian Arabic, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luri, Mazandarani, Norwegian, Oriya, Palestinian Arabic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Serbian, Shona, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Talysh, Tulu, Tunisian Arabic, Ukrainian, and Yiddish.
2. Multicultural Topics in Communications Sciences & Disorders website (MultiCSD): The website contains brief general guidelines for bilingual assessment and intervention.
https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/multicsd/home
- Pacific Islander Languages: Chamorro, Ilocano, and Palauan.
- Other Asian Languages: Burmese, Cantonese, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Kannada, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Pashto, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, and Zou.
- Other Languages: Acholi, African American Vernacular English, American Sign Language, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bantu, Bengali, Bosnia, Chicano English, Chinuk Wawa, Chiukese, Colombian Spanish, Creole English Dialects, Croatian, Cuban Spanish, Dari, Farsi/Persian, French, German, Haitian Creole, Italian, Kurdish, Latin American Spanish, Maay-Maay, Mayan, Mixtec, Omoro, Polish, Puerto Rican Spanish, Romani, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, and Ukrainian.
3. University of British Columbia: Phonological Development, Phonology transcriptions, Treatment ideas, Activity ideas: awareness/perception/input activities or as speech production/output activities, and Long word analysis.
http://phonodevelopment.sites.olt.ubc.ca/
- Pacific Islander Languages: Tagalog.
- Other Asian Languages: Cantonese, Japanese, and Mandarin.
- Other Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Portuguese, Punjabi, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish.
Program Specific
1. The Educating Pacific Island Clinicians in Speech-Language Pathology (EPICS) Project: EPICS is a 5-year personal preparatory project to facilitate the training of grad-level personnel from the US affiliated with Pacific Basin jurisdictions in speech-language pathology (San José State University, in partnership with Guam CEDDERS). Project EPICS Regions: Islands of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, America Samoa, and The Republic of Marshall Islands.
https://www.guamcedders.org/category/interdisciplinary-pre-service-preparation/epics/
2. University of Guam’s Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research & Service: “The University of Guam Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (Guam CEDDERS) serves as a training and technical assistance provider in the Pacific Basin region. It is the largest training, service, and technical assistance center at the University.” The website provides resources for local, national disability organizations, and federal programs and agencies.
https://www.guamcedders.org/
3. University of Hawai’i’s Center of Disability – Hawaii: Includes descriptions of projects of created to support the native Hawaiian communities, these projects include a Comprehensive Service Center for People Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or Deaf-Blind, the development of a Hawaii Statewide Family Engagement Center, Ho‘oku‘i III: Na Kumu Alaka‘i; supports Native Hawaiian and at-risk students transition from high school to postsecondary (college) education, Pacific Basin University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and many others. The center for disabilities goals is to promote and improve community living, employment, education and early intervention.
https://cds.coe.hawaii.edu/
Acknowledgement: The caucus would like to thank the volunteers for their outstanding contribution to put the multicultural/multilingual resources together and provide valuable input/support to create this page.
Natalie Wrobleski, Nicole Lindmeier, Sydney Laurion, Hsinhuei Sheen Chiou, Emerson Odango, Archie Soelaeman, Monika Ifah, and Michael Guerin