NEW - Yeled V'Yalda Multilingual Development and Education Research Institute

[Isabelle Barriere]

Creation of a New Research Institute:

Creation of a New Research Institute:



Yeled VYalda Multilingual Development and Education Research Institute



Directors: Isabelle Barriere, PhD & Garey V. Ellis, MD

Contact: <mailto:yvymde at yeled.org>yvymde at yeled.org



Areas:
    * 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&
    * Speech, reading and writing- different writing systems and alphabets;
    * Early childhood education (0-5), intervention and rehabilitation;
    * Families and their communities;
    * Typical, delayed and atypical physical and cognitive development;
    * Assessment, diagnostic, intervention and rehabilitation;
    * Link between theoretical research and implications for education, 
intervention and rehabilitation.



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?



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 (<http://www.yeled.org/>http://www.yeled.org/) (2005 Outstanding 
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.



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).



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.

  Contact: <mailto:yvymde at yeled.org>yvymde at yeled.<mailto:yvymde at yeled.org>org

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