chp 6 asian Flashcards

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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

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ORIGINS:
-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 U.S. by 2055

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Many Indians in the U.S. are Brahmin

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  • Highest in CASTE SYSTEM
  • Represent wealthy people
  • High priority on careers 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 Harpreet

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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:** (Indian)

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  • There is NO intermarriage between castes

- Girls are encouraged to stay home

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CONTRASTNG BELIEFS, VALUES, AND PRACTICES** (traditional asian)

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-Fatalism
-Tradition, living with Change, future
the past
-Group welfare
-Mutual interdependence
-Hierarchy, rigid role status
-Conformity
-Encourages continued Early indep.
dependence on family encouraged (older sibs HELP)
-Parent is authority;
-expects submission
-unquestioning obedience
-Parents ask ch “What can you do to help me?”

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CONTRASTNG BELIEFS, VALUES, AND PRACTICES (mainstream)

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  • Personal control over envt., one’s fate
  • Change, future orientation
  • Self actualization, privacy
  • Independence, indiv. autonomy
  • Equality, status determined by achievement
  • Challenge authority
  • Early indep. encouraged
  • Parent gives choices
  • encouraged
  • Parents ask 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 (she’s 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 subjects
  • Some Asians may smile or laugh when embarrassed or angry
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Amor propio

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respect – saving face so no one is ashamed

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Pakikisama:

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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, sins 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 occupations (outperform whites)
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However, in California: (California Educator continued)

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  • 40% of Hmong, 38% of Laotians, and 35% of Cambodians don’t complete high school
  • Due to poverty
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In most Asian countries, there is

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  • Great respect for teachers
  • Heavy reliance on rote learning, memorization
  • Teachers are very authoritarian
  • Class is formal; teachers lecture
  • Teachers don’t admit mistakes
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Differences–Asian and American Schools (Stevenson; compared Beijing & 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: $$ & material objects; below 10% expressed wishes 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 & Kim

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  • Role of Asian children in families: 1) respect elders 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 often put sports/athletics first; kids are too tired to study
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many asian parents…

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-unaware of after-school clubs and extracurricular

Help increase awareness

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ASIAN LANGUAGE CONSIDERATIONS

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Many languages have numerous dialects

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Some Languages are Tonal

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  • 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…

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  • Some countries are monolingual
  • E.g., in Laos – Lao; Japan – Japanese
  • However, in some countries, many langs
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IMPLICATIONS FOR PROFESSIONALS**

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  • 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 with young children and babies; may not be open to EARLY INTERVENTION
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teach asian ch…

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“home” and “school” rules for talking**

Analyze expressive lang skills by 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

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  • 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 (SLI)
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The researchers found that

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  • Narrative assessment can be reliably and validly standardized for use w/ Catonese- speaking (CS) ch ​
  • CS Ch W/ SLI: great difficulty using appropriate SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY when telling stories in Cantonese
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These children also

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  • 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

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Assessment of children’s narrative skills is very promising -> differentiating lang. difference from LI

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Assessment of children’s narrative skills is very promising -> differentiating lang. difference from LI

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In 2000, there were 24,516 Filipinos in Sacramento County​

In recent years, this has increased to 41,455 (69% INCREASE)​

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Former students from this class:

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-Filipinos predominantly ROMAN CATHOLIC —enlist help of PRIEST, church members​

-Family–huge sacrifices to come to U.S. for a better life for Ch​

-150 dialects​

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filipinos love…

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  • personal touch – e.g. pulling out pix of your kids – can relate to you better​
  • When making tx recommendation, say “we” not “you”​
  • Talk about ch’s strengths before weaknesses/deficits
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Bahala na

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leave it to god – its out of your hands anyway

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TALK ABOUT…

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  • EDUCATION– how tx related to ch doing better academically ​
  • Not all filipinos speak tagalog! Be careful –> interpreter ​
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Extracurricular activities…

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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

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  • 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…

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  • Hide tattoos – prison​
  • Many filipinos have MAIDS, esp. to help CARE FOR CH.
  • College credits, creds/degrees may not transfer to U.S. ​
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Tasha Ketphanh—Laos:

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  • Grew up in Sacto on welfare​
  • Education not important—you’re just going to work in RICE FIELDS
  • Laotians ↑st PRISON population of Asians​
  • Don’t ever look an adult in the face
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Tasha (Laos; continued)​

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  • Don’t touch people’s heads ​
  • White string bracelet fends off bad spirits ​
  • Jewelry is big – bling scares away ghosts ​
  • In Laos, people with physical disabilities live on the outskirts of the city – afraid they’ll scare ch ​
  • Boys taken as soldiers – 10 years old
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I have found that Asians

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  • Are generally terrific to work with​
  • Very APPRECIATIVE
  • If they understand WHY, they will do carry over