arabic acquisition

[Margaret Fleck]

Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins is also worth inspection.   It
has words, but they simply duplicate what's readily visible
in the pictures.

Margaret Fleck

--- On Thu, 7/8/10, Nan Ratner <NRATNER at hesp.umd.edu> wrote:

> From: Nan Ratner <NRATNER at hesp.umd.edu>
> Subject: arabic acquisition
> To: "Info-CHILDES" <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
> Cc: "Arifi Waked" <awaked at hesp.umd.edu>
> Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 2:23 PM
> A doc student and I are starting a
> project to track outcomes in cochlear implant users in Saudi
> Arabia. We would appreciate any leads on child
> speech/language acquisition in Arabic, particularly in this
> specific region (we do know that Arabic shares many features
> with Hebrew and are pursuing this), especially work in
> progress or otherwise not easily tracked through typical
> bibliographic search utilities. 
> 
>  Further, we feel that Frog stories may not be culturally
> appropriate to use in eliciting narratives in this
> population (the animals are either unfamiliar or have
> negative valence locally) - does anyone know of a picture
> book that might be more appropriate for eliciting narratives
> from children 4-12?
> 
> Any help most greatly appreciated!
> 
> Nan Ratner 
> 
> 
> 
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> Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
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