Asian Flashcards
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Intro and background: Origins
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- East Asia: (Japan, Korea, china)
- Southeast Asia: (philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia)
- South Asia: (pakistan, India, Sri Lanka)
- Key Religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism
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Pew Research Center 2017
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-asians immigrants projected to become the largest foreign-born group in the US by 2055
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Many Indians in the U.S. are Brahmin
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- highest in caste system
- represent wealth people
- high priority on career in science, medicine
- many sikh indians in CA today (darker skinned indians may experience discrimination from lighter-skinned indians - colorism)
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Former student Harpeet
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- lighter- skinned indians in middle school would not let her associate with them
- bullied because she is darker and of a lower caste
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Sonam R., 2016
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- there is NO intermarriage between castes
- girls are encouraged to stay home
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contrasting beliefs, values, and practices
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TRADITIONAL Asian -fatalism -tradition, living with the past MAINSTREAM -personal control over environment,one's fate -change, future orientation
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Traditional vs mainstream
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TRADITIONAL Asian -group welfare -mutual interdependence -hierarchy, Rigid role status -conformity MAINSTREAM -self-actualization, privacy -independence, indiv. autonomy -equality, status determined by achievement -challenge authority
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Traditional vs mainstream (2)
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TRADITIONAL
-encourages continued dependence on family (older sibs HELP)
-parent authority; expects submission, unquestioning obedience
-parents ask ch, “what can you do to help me?”
MAINSTREAM
-early independence encouraged
-parent gives choices independent thinking encouraged
-parents as ch “what can I do to help you?”
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For children, many asian families believe (in contrast to traditional U.S. families)
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- self expression not important
- learn by observation, not exploration
- best – seen and not heard
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Having children is important – fidela B., 2016, Laotian
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- under a lot of pressure to get married (shes around 25)
- mom: “your eggs are dying”
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customs, courtesies, values
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- hospitality
- respect for elders, teachers, authority figures
- modesty, humility
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communication styles
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- formal rules of communication propriety based on relative status of interlocutors
- may be considered appropriate to ask personal questions
- indirectness often the norm: re:touchy subject
- some Asians may smile or laugh when embarrassed or angry
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For example, key Filipino cultural values
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- amor propio: respect– saving face so no one is ashamed
- Pakikisama: good feelings – getting along- preserving harmony
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health care and disabilities
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- visible vs. invisible disabilities
- disabilities –> fate, karma, sin committed by ancestors
- families may be ashamed to bring a child for help if his/her disability represents sins committed by parents/ancestors
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As SLPs
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-we may have trouble getting families to acknowledge disabilities and sign IEPs for special education services
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Asian Education
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- hugely valued
- asian children attend preschool at a higher rate than other groups
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California educator – Asians in the U.S. have the highest rates of
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- college degree attainment
- # of persons w/ advanced degrees
- working in highly skilled occupation (outperform whites)
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However, in CA (california educator continued)
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- 40% of Hmong, 38% of Laotians, and 35% of cambodians dont complete high school
- due to poverty
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In most Asian countries, there is:
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- great respect for teacher
- heavy reliance on rote learning, memorization
- teachers are very authoritarian
- class is formal; teachers lecture
- teachers dont admit mistakes
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Differences – Asian and American Schools (stevenson, compared Beijing and chicago)
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- long days, but lots of recess (in Asian schools)
- 3x more american than asian mothers “very satisfied” w/ their ch’s progress
- U.S. ch ranked themselves much higher than chinese ch., even though Chinese ch ahead academically in all subjects
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When asked what they’d wish for
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- american ch: $$ and material objects; below 10% expressed wished about education
- almost 70% of chinese ch focused wished on college
- Confucian beliefs -individual differences in ability de-emphasized
- EFFORT and DILIGENCE are supreme
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Abboud and kim
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- role of asian children in families : 1) respect elder and obey parents, 2) work hard and do well in school to secure a bright future
- many asian parents work hard all day and morph into educators at night – that is their role
- asian parents put academics first, while other parents put sports/ athletics first; kids are too tired to study
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many asian
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- parents unaware of after school clubs and extracurricular
- help increase awareness
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asian langugae considerations: Introduction
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-many languages have numerous dialects
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Some langugaes are tonal
- khmer (cambodia), Japanese, korean not tonal languages
- vietnamese, chinese, laotian are tonal; each tone represents a meaning change
- vietnamese has 6 tones for example
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Linguistically
- some countires are monolingual
- e.g., in laos -- lao; japan -- japanese
- however in some countries many lang
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implication for professionals
- we may need to address the husband first because the wife is subordinate
- it may be disgraceful for the family to admit to or discuss a child's disability ;entire family lineage disgraced -- intervention may be rejected
- some families do not believe that it is important to talk w/ young children and babies; may not be open to early intervention
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Teach asian
- home and school rules for talking
- amalyze expressive lang skills be evaluating writing, not speaking (quiet in class)
- some families dislike "game: format of Tx -- prefer structured drill activities
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To, Stokes, Cheung, & T'sou (journal of speech, language and hearing research) narrative assessment for cantonese- speaking children
- narrative skills strong predictors of later language outcomes
- this study attempted to create some norms for evaluating narrative skills of cantonese-speaking children
- studied typically-developing subjects and those with specific language impairment
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Researchers found that
- narrative assessment can be reliable and validly standardized for use w/ catonese-speaking ch
- CS Ch w/ SLI: great difficulty using appropriate syntactic complexity when telling stories in Cantonese
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These children also
- showed limited ability to present as many ideas
| - Used nonspecific terms (e.g., "the girl did the leg of the cat" rather than "the girl bandaged the leg of the cat")
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So we know that
-assessment of children's narrative skills is very promising --> differentiating lang difference from LI
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It is important for us to understand Filipinos
- in 2000 there were 24,516 Filipinos in Sac county
| - in recent years, this has increased to 41,455 (69% increase)
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Former students from class
- filipinos predominatly roman catholic- enlist help of priest, church member
- family -- huge sacrifices to come to U.S. for a better life ch
- 150 dialects
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filipinos love
- personal touch-- e.g., pulling out pics of your kids can relate to you better
- when making treatment recommendation, say "we" not "you"
- talk about ch's strength before weaknesses/deficits
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Bahala na
- leave it to god- its out of your hands anyway
- talk about education - how treatment related to ch doing better academically
- not all filipinos speak taglog! be careful --> interpreter
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extracurricular activities
- not emphasized; academics much higher priority
| - as a ch, you are your parents future -- takes care of them in old age
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parents push...
- for math, science, majors; "safe" careers so ch will not be poor
- more career freedom for sons than daughters
- oldest sibling - lots of responsibility
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hide
- tattoos -prison
- many filipinos have maids,esp. to help care for ch.
- college credits, creds/degrees may not transfer over to U.S
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Tasha Ketphanh --Laos : former student
- grew in sacto on welfare
- education not important -- youre just going to work in rice fields
- laotians increased prison population of asians
- dont ever look an adult in the face
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tasha (continued)
- dont touch peoples heads
- white string bracelet fends off bad spirit
- jewelry is big -bling scares away ghosts
- in laos people with physical disabilities live on the outskirts of the city -- afraid theyll scare ch
- boys taken as soldiers -- 10 years
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I have found that asians
- are generally terrific to work with
- very appreciative
- if they understand why they will do carry over
