arabic acquisition

[Barbara Pearson]

Dear Nan,
We had an excellent Saudi student who got her very linguistically  
oriented Comm Dis degree at UMass in the early 2000s and was in the  
lab working on the DELV project.  She just spent a Fulbright year last  
year back in Northampton with Jill de Villiers, translating the DELV  
into Arabic.

Anyway, she has been watching the Arabic child language scene quite  
closely, and I suggest you get in touch.
Lamya Abdul-karim

lamyaslp at hotmail.com

(She may already be on info-childes!)

Cheers,
Barbara

On Jul 8, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Nan Ratner wrote:

> 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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