Achieving Same-Race Adoptive Placements for African American Children: Culturally Sensitive Practice Approaches

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Ruth G. McRoy ◽  
Zena Oglesby ◽  
Helen Grape
1998 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia F. Dziegielewski ◽  
Ana M. Leon ◽  
Cheryl E. Green

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward V. Wallace

An after-school obesity prevention program for African American children is proposed in this paper. The prevention program is a behavioral education program designed to facilitate healthy behavior changes in obesity self-care and provide culturally sensitive interventions specifically for obese African American children. The self-care concepts addressed involve: knowledge of obesity, exercise, and nutrition. The culturally sensitive interventions address the problems of low self-esteem, communication, and ineffective family coping. The implementation of the after-school obesity program included four phases: needs assessment, planning and goal setting, implementation, and monitoring for progress. This afterschool education program is designed to promote self-care, family support, and improve the quality of life for obese African American children.


1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Moran

The purpose of this study was to determine whether African American children who delete final consonants mark the presence of those consonants in a manner that might be overlooked in a typical speech evaluation. Using elicited sentences from 10 African American children from 4 to 9 years of age, two studies were conducted. First, vowel length was determined for minimal pairs in which final consonants were deleted. Second, listeners who identified final consonant deletions in the speech of the children were provided training in narrow transcription and reviewed the elicited sentences a second time. Results indicated that the children produced longer vowels preceding "deleted" voiced final consonants, and listeners perceived fewer deletions following training in narrow transcription. The results suggest that these children had knowledge of the final consonants perceived to be deleted. Implications for assessment and intervention are discussed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marquitta J. White ◽  
O. Risse-Adams ◽  
P. Goddard ◽  
M. G. Contreras ◽  
J. Adams ◽  
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