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INTERNET SITES: MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES

***These sites may change without notice, and the reader is advised to check each source online.

ASHA now has a group called the ASHA Gathering Place. This is a special program for university students who are members of racial/ethnic minority groups. The goal is for students to receive mentoring and to network. Check out the website!

http://www.ashagatheringplace.airsmentoring.com/mcenter/asha.home

CSHA (California Speech and Hearing Association) has excellent information on diverse populations. Go to www.csha.org and click on "Diversity Issues."

Publishers of Multicultural Materials

www.acadcom.com

www.proedinc.com

www.singpub.org

www.professional.asha.org

General Information/Demographic Data

www.census.gov

www.cis.org/ (Center for Immigration Studies)

http://ericae.net ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation

Multicultural/Bilingual Issues

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~abrice/cross-cultural.html

www.hhs.csus.edu/homepages/SPA/Roseberry/

www.bilingualtherapies.com

http://www.name.org

http://www.ed.gov/index.html

http://www.nvg.unit.no/~cindy/biling-fam.html

http://utexas.edu/coc/csdlmulticultural/index.html

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/coe/depts/ci/bilingue/resources.html

http://www.montonet.com/bicomm.htm

Internet Resources for Bilingual Education and ESL

http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu

Information Regarding Specific Countries

www.wtgonline.com/data/(name of country)

http://russianculture.about.com/culture/russianculture/mbody.htm

www.iranian.com

English as a Second Language Websites

http://web1.toefl.org (Teachers of English as a Foreign Language general website)

http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/clas/clashome.html (materials for culturally and linguistically appropriate services)

www.comenius.com (free online activities including Fluency Through Fables, short tales created to improve English reading comprehension, and a collection of idioms)

http://members.home.net/englishzone/grammar/grammar.html (online activities; worksheets for verbs, idioms, vocabulary, grammar, conversation, spelling, study skills, writing, and reading)

www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesis (Interesting Things for ESL Students; contains puzzles, quizzes, word games, proverbs, and slang as well as vocabulary quizzes with pictures)

www.peakenglish.com/Games/games.shtml (Mortal Grammar; activities for middle school students)

www.kidsdomain.com (ESL Renegades, other ESL activities)

www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html (this site mails out different vocabulary words and definitions to its subscribers)

www.c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster (hypertext Webster’s Dictionary)

www.go-ed.com/english/practice/rside/home.html (this site provides practice on prepositions “up” and “on” as well as relative clauses, relative pronouns, and idioms)

www.wordfocus.com/index.html (Focusing on Words site is dedicated to enhancing vocabulary skills through looking at the Latin and Greek elements of words.)

www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/cookie.pl.cgi (ESL quote page presents a daily quote)

www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html (Teachers Helping Teachers; provides applied teaching tips for new teachers as well as a forum for experienced teachers to share ideas and practical strategies)

www.logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/social.html (this page covers some pragmatics issues; SLPs who work with adolescent students can use this)

www.mindport.net/arezis (The American Literature Classics-Chapter a Day features on-line books with a different chapter posted daily. A reader’s discussion room is also provided.

www.stonesoup.com/main2/siteindex.html (Stone Soup; contains stories by young writers, links and resources and children’s art from around the world)

African American English Websites

Center for Applied Linguistics

http://www.cal.org/ebonics

http://www.sil.org

University of Memphis

http://www.ausp.memphis.edu/phonology

Asian Languages

Bilingual Chinese-English Information

http://home.comcast.net/~bilingualslp

Saturn Hmong Page

http://ww2.saturn.stpaul.k12.mn.us/hmong.sathmong.html