Test 2 Pacific Islanders

Question 1

What are the 3 main populations from biggest to smallest

Answer 1

Population: 1=Hawaiians, 2=Samoans, 3=Chamorros (Guam)

Question 2

What are the main areas?

Answer 2

Main areas: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia (specific islands in each area will NOT be on the exam)

Question 3

How much has the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander group (race alone and race in combination) grown between 1990-2000

Answer 3

Race alone: 9.3% growth

Race alone or in combination: 139.5%

Question 4

AAPIs comprise ____ of the total U.S. population

Answer 4

4%

Question 5

T/F They are expected to reach 10% of the population by 2050.

Answer 5

True

Mokuau, M., & Tauili’ili, P. (2011): currently 846,000 PIs live in the U.S.

Question 6

T/F

Answer 6

Unfortunately, some PIs such as Samoans in the U.S. experience abject poverty

Question 7

What are the CULTURAL CUSTOMS AND COURTESIES

Answer 7

Hospitality, generosity, and sharing are very important

Attitudes toward life are relaxed

Question 8

Education is based on _________

Answer 8

oral learning

Question 9

what are some characteristics of their education?

Answer 9

Rote memorization; children are taught to conform, not be individualistic and creative

Things are done in groups, not individually

Resources like books are challenging to come by

Question 10

In the Fijiian village of Natawadawadi…

Answer 10

No electricity or running water
CH swim to school
In junior high, they must go to boarding school in the capital, Nadi

Question 11

What is the educational style in the islands?

Answer 11

• Educational style in the islands is very relaxed

- Some Guam schools closed because of high teacher absenteeism

Question 12

Former student Denise: said teachers came ________

Answer 12

• if felt like it

- “What would you like to do today?”

Question 13

T/F When students come from the islands they struggle adjusting to school

Answer 13

True

• School in U.S. –> major adjustment
• High drop out rate of Islander students in the US.

Question 14

Why do students come from the islands struggle adjusting to school ?

Answer 14

Earning higher degrees—low priority

-CH should go to work ASAP

Question 15

10.6% of the U.S. population has a graduate or professional degree. What % Islanders have this type of degree

Answer 15

Only 4.3% of Pacific Islanders have this type of degree

Question 16

What are some characteristics of PI family life

Answer 16

Extended families are common

Child care is provided by multiple caretakers

Heavy emphasis on authority and respect

Emphasis on well-being of family, not individual rights

Question 17

T/F Families look poor to outsiders

Answer 17

True

• but no homelessness—everyone is provided for
• No word for “person” you’re part of the whole group

Question 18

T/F Mokuau, M., & Tauili’ili, P. (2011) found that

Answer 18

Somoans often take extended family and church more seriously than $$ school and career

Question 19

What kind of society does Guam have ?

Answer 19

Some societies, like the Chamorros of Guam, are matriarchal

Question 20

T/F Domestic violence may occur in some Islander cultures

Answer 20

• Work with local community and local churches to intervene in culturally appropriate ways when parents discipline CH in ways that conflict with U.S. laws
• Child Action, Inc.—report abuse

Question 21

Health Care and Disabilities that are common in Samoans

Answer 21

• Lots OME

- CH may be exposed to mercury from seafood—may experience lower IQ’s cognitive and linguistic problems

Question 22

How do Chamorros of Guam view a disability?

Answer 22

view a disability as a gift from God

vs. acquired it is not a gift

Question 23

T/F -In Samoa there is intolerance for disabilities

Answer 23

True

Question 24

T/F Islanders may call on faith healers or practioners of folk medicine to heal Sickness/disability

Answer 24

True

Question 25

In Guam what does suruhano mean?

Answer 25

or faith healers who are high respected

Question 26

Hawaiians have traditionally relied on kuhuna lapa’au, what are they?

Answer 26

“medical experts” who use prayers, massage, and herbs

Question 27

Implications of SLPs with Islanders

Answer 27

When people rely on faith healers, SLPs may be viewed as unimportant
-So try to work alongside with the healer

Question 28

ASHA Guam and the Virgin Islands, there’s a shortage of what?

Answer 28

• shortage of SLPs, esp. in hospitals
• Many individuals are denied services because of 1) lack of practitioners and 2)stigma—special needs

-no matter if it’s genital or acquired there’s no services available

Question 29

What are major risk factors from islanders?

Answer 29

hypertension, high cholesterol

Almost 30% of APIs have high cholesterol

Question 30

What are Islanders communication styles?

Answer 30

• In order to not to offend, many Islanders will say what they think the listener wants to hear
• CH’s primary experiences in interacting are with other CH, not adults
• In “talk story” CH listen to elders talk about days of old

Question 31

Research of Schieffelin Ochs compared American and Samoan mothers found what?

Answer 31

Samoan CH expected to accommodate to adults; US adults accommodate to CH

U.S. mothers speak “motherese” but Samoan mothers don’t simplify their register for younger CH

Question 32

There are over ____ indigenous languages are spoken in the Islands. They are influenced by what?

Answer 32

1200

Language is influenced by culture

Question 33

The apostrophe in a word is pronounced as a ____

Answer 33

glottal stop

Question 34

Some CH speak _________ and need support in acquiring formal English

Answer 34

pidgin English/Hawaiin Creole

Question 35

What are are implications for SLPs when writing an IEP?

Answer 35

We must fully explain paperwork requiring signatures

Be careful about requesting parents to come to school

Question 36

What are implications for SLPs for treatment?

Answer 36

• Use a collective rather than individual storytelling method
• Identify and explain the pragmatic rules in mainstream U.S. culture—like greeting, complimenting, leave-taking, etc.
• Reinforce literacy
• Provide cooperative (not competitive) learning opportunities