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Adapting a Widely Used Children's Disability Attitudes Measure: Validation of the Maryland East‐African Children's Attitudes Towards Disabilities (MEACAD) Scale

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Chedoke‐McMaster Attitudes Towards Children with Handicaps (CATCH), a 36‐item scale, is widely used to assess children's attitudes toward peers with disabilities. While recognized for its strong validity and reliability, it was developed nearly four decades ago in Canada for children aged 9 to 13 and no longer fully aligns with ...
Angshuman K. Kashyap, Malayna Leopold, Dina L. G. Borzekowski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Poesia swahili in Katanga: multilinguismo e corporalità nei versi di Patrick Mudekereza

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2019
The world of Swahili contemporary poetry, as remarked by M. M. Mulokozi and T. S. Y. Sengo (1995: 22), is amazingly broad, given the progressive diffusion of the Swahili language in the course of the last two centuries, from the East African coast to the
Flavia Aiello, Roberto Gaudioso
doaj   +1 more source

Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Meta Learning

, 2020
Learning what to share between tasks has been a topic of great importance recently, as strategic sharing of knowledge has been shown to improve downstream task performance.
Augenstein, Isabelle, Bekoulis, Giannis, Bjerva, Johannes, Nooralahzadeh, Farhad   +3 more
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Impact of Transnational Family Separation on Parenting and Psychosocial Well‐Being for Black African Migrant Parents in Hamilton

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of increased migration from sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) to Hamilton in the past 5 years, this qualitative study explores the experiences of Black African migrant parents resettling in Hamilton, Canada. Using semi‐structured interviews and thematic analysis, four key themes emerged: (1) impact of migration and family separation stress on ...
Tsinat Semagn, Ingrid Waldron, Allison Williams, Olive Wahoush   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating the In‐Laws: Class and Kin Support Within Marriage in Urban Kenya

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study compares affinal kin relationships in low‐income and higher‐income families in Nairobi, Kenya. Background In most studies of kinship structure and relationships in sub‐Saharan Africa, culture serves as the basis upon which norms and expectations of kin are differentiated.
Kirsten Stoebenau, Nikita Viswasam, Estelle M. Sidze, Sangeetha Madhavan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SALAMA: Swahili Language Manager

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 1999
SALAMA is an acronym for Swahili Language Manager. It is a computerised working environment, where it is possible, with the help of a set of programs and user-defined utilities, to perform a multitude of tasks. For introducing SALAMA, it is perhaps more interesting to describe its aims and applications first, and then give an outlay of its components ...
openaire   +1 more source

Descolonizando Decolonizing Linguistics, or the Perils of Refusing Pero no Mucho

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
Kakaretso Tshekatsheko eno e e tseneletseng ya Decolonizing Linguistics e baya kgatiso eno mo gare ga dikganetsano tsa Amerika Borwa ka ga sekolone go botsolotsa melelwane ya dipuisano tsa segompieno tsa go tlosa bokolone mo thutapuong ya Seesemane. Ke ikaegile ka tshekatsheko ya ga Cusicanqui ya mogopolo wa go ganetsa sekolone, le mogopolo wa ga Bispo,
Rodrigo Borba
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of language factors in a multilingual stutterer

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
The apparently predictable occurrence of stuttering in English-speaking stutterers has been well documented and has revealed a number of rules regarding stuttering loci known as the language factors. This study investigated the presence of these language
Nola Watt
doaj   +1 more source

TEAM‐UP: Mixed‐Methods Data for Understanding Traditional and Modern Contraceptive Use Dynamics in Four Sub‐Saharan African Countries

Studies in Family Planning, EarlyView.
Abstract This Data Article describes a novel dataset from the “Re‐Examining Traditional Method Use” (TEAM‐UP) project, which systematically collected data on the measurement of and motivations for use of non‐modern (traditional and folkloric) contraceptive methods and/or modern methods, in four sub‐Saharan African countries: the Democratic Republic of ...
Nurudeen Alhassan, Jamaica Corker, Nyovani Janet Madise, Ernestina Coast, Naa Dodua Dodoo, Themba Mzembe, Jacques B.O Emina, Elizabeth Omoluabi, F. Nii‐Amoo Dodoo, Saseendran Pallikadavath, Maame B. Peterson, John A. Mushomi, Funmilola M. OlaOlorun, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Swahili personality-trait vocabulary: A psycho-lexical study using dictionary and day-to-day conversations by indigenous speakers

International Journal of Personality Psychology
Human social behavior is a function of peoples’ personalities and individual differences. As humans engage in social behaviors, peoples’ traits and other unique attributes come out and get noticed, and community members may feel tempted to talk about ...
Harrun H. Garrashi, Boele De Raad, Dick P.H. Barelds   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source