arabic acquisition

[Schneider, Phyllis]

Hello,

You could try the pictures used with the Edmonton Narrative Norms
Instrument, which are available for free on our website:
www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/enni.
They have been used with children in India (speakers of Kannada) and
Hong Kong (Cantonese) with no problems.  Set A has a giraffe and an
elephant; many Canadian children did not recognize the giraffe, but it
did not matter as we accepted whatever they chose to call it (horse,
zebra, etc.)

Good luck finding pictures--
Phyllis Schneider

-----Original Message-----
From: info-childes at googlegroups.com
[mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nan Ratner
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:23 PM
To: Info-CHILDES
Cc: Arifi Waked
Subject: arabic acquisition

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 



Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
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University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
nratner at hesp.umd.edu 
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301-405-4213
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