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Creation of a New Research Institute: <br><br>
Creation of a New Research Institute: <br><br>
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Yeled VYalda Multilingual Development and Education Research
Institute<br><br>
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Directors: Isabelle Barriere, PhD & Garey V. Ellis, MD<br><br>
Contact: <a href="mailto:yvymde@yeled.org">yvymde@yeled.org</a><br><br>
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Areas:
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<li>Cross-linguistic, bilingual and multilingual development- including,
but not limited to: Arabic, Caribbean Amerindian languages, English,
English Creole languages, French Creole languages, Hebrew, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Myanmar (Burmese), Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish, Spanish Creole languages, Slavonic languages, Ukrainian,
Surinamese languages, Tagalog, Thai, Yiddish&
<li>Speech, reading and writing- different writing systems and alphabets;
<li>Early childhood education (0-5), intervention and rehabilitation;
<li>Families and their communities;
<li>Typical, delayed and atypical physical and cognitive development;
<li>Assessment, diagnostic, intervention and rehabilitation;
<li>Link between theoretical research and implications for education,
intervention and rehabilitation.
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How do children develop in different cultural and linguistic settings?
What are the universal, language-specific, cultural-specific patterns
their development exhibits? How can this development be fostered or
enhanced in cases of typical, delayed and atypical development? What are
the underlying causes of delayed and atypical development and how to best
address the childs and familys needs? How to distinguish between
delayed, atypical and cultural-specific development?<br><br>
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Here are some of the issues that Yeled VYalda Multilingual Development
and Education Research Institute is seeking to address. The heart
of the YVYMDE Research Institute is the Yeled VYalda Early Childhood
Education Center
(<a href="http://www.yeled.org/">http://www.yeled.org/</a>) (2005
Outstanding<b> </b>Early Childhood Program Awards granted by the New York
State Education Department Office of School Improvement and Community
Services), one of the two largest Head Start Programs in New York
City. Its population totals over 2,000 children representing an
unsurpassed cross-section of languages and cultures in the US. <br><br>
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The top three socio-demographic risk-factors associated with American
childrens learning difficulties when entering kindergarten are: 1)
mothers low level of education; 2) family at the poverty level; 3) use of
a language other than English by the mother (National Center for
Education Statistics, 1995). 'The number of children who speak a
language other than English at home more than doubled from 5.1 to 10.6
million between 1998 and 2000'and will constitute 30% of the US school
population by 2015 (Fix & Passel, 2003).<br><br>
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YVYMDE Research Institute will pioneer the assessment, intervention and
rehabilitation tools that will meet the need of these children and their
families while answering fundamental theoretical and empirical issues
about child development.<br><br>
Contact:
<a href="mailto:yvymde@yeled.org">yvymde@yeled.</a><a href="mailto:yvymde@yeled.org">org<br>
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