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Date: | Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:19:06 EST |
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Dear Friends:
While it is valuable to have culturally relevant educational materials,
I want to share my experience working in a health clinic where many
immigrants were clients. I was able to find materials in Cambodian, after much
searching. I was very proud that I had nice brochures to offer my Cambodian clients;
unfortunately, they were all illiterate, and couldn't read any of them. (I
was told that many of the literate and educated people in Cambodia were
killed.)
My advice is to make sure the clients can read comfortably before going
through all the work to find less common (at least in the US) language
materials.
Another caution: the Ross materials in different languages were awful 10
years ago; I don't know if they have been updated, and I wouldn't choose to
use them anyway, because of their source.
It was helpful to find translators: either children (who often learn
English first), or official translators from the agencies and organizations. And
showing movies with no words (turn the sound off) and great images
communicates.
Sadly, I found many immigrants from the Asian countries less likely to
breastfeed; they want to be like "Americans" and artificially feed their
babies.
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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