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Resettlement, mental health, and coping: a mixed methods survey with recently resettled refugee parents in Canada
(Springer Nature, 2023-02-23)
Background:
Resettlement experiences of refugee parents are under-researched despite evidence indicating higher risk of poor mental health. The current study integrates family systems and social determinants of refugee ...
Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada (Postprint)
(Sage Journals, 2023)
The current study investigated the composition of the lexicon deployed by Arabic-speaking Canadian immigrant children in narrative production with specific focus on diglossia (N=75; Age-range 7-12 years). The study also ...
Reimagining mental health care for newcomer children and families: a qualitative framework analysis of service provider perspectives
(Springer Nature, 2023-06-27)
Background
Persistent disparities in access to mental health care for refugee and immigrant children and their families pose unique challenges to policy and practice. This study examined service provider perspectives on ...
Mobilizing Innovative Models in Early Childhood Education and Care for Newcomer Families and Children
(Mount Saint Vincent University, Early Childhood Collaborative Research Centre, 2023)
The objective of this research was to identify innovative approaches to early learning and child care (ELCC) programs to meet the unique needs of newcomer families and support the social and emotional development of their ...
Morphology and Reading Skills in Arabic-Speaking Syrian Refugee Children
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
Limited research has been conducted on the literacy skills of Arabic-speaking refugee children. This study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal role(s) of morphological awareness in Arabic word reading and reading ...
Case Analysis of the Language for Young Adults Program: An Investigation into the Language, Social and Emotional Learning Needs of Refugee Youth
(2023)
The goal of this study was to understand how social and emotional factors shape and inform language learning experiences from the student perspective while highlighting the resilience and resilience of newcomer youth in ...
Older Refugee Youth with Interrupted Schooling in Smaller Communities in Manitoba
(University of Winnipeg, 2023-09)
This study explored interrupted schooling among youth with refugee experience in smaller Manitoba communities. Using a community-engaged participatory research methodology, this study gathered data from four cohorts that ...
Age, Experience and Language and Literacy Skills in English- Arabic Speaking Syrian Refugees
(MDPI, 2023)
Although age of acquisition (AoA) is frequently used when examining the endpoint of second language (L2) learning, it is rarely used to examine the initial phases of L2 acquisition. The present study provided a unique look ...
The interplay between syntactic and morphological comprehension in heritage contexts: The case of relative clauses in heritage Syrian Arabic
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Previous studies show that even though monolingual children find subject relatives easier
than object relatives, their comprehension of object relatives can be facilitated by
morphological cues. Given that in heritage ...