Using Surveys to Determine Language Needs

1. Presented by: Suzanne Snedeker, Ph.D. Sabina Swift, Ph.D. Jennifer Weber Using Surveys to Determine Language Needs AAPSE 2003

2. AAPSE CommitteeNon-English Language Materials for Pesticide Safety Education • Language Trends and Literacy Issues • Bilingual English & Spanish Word Bank • Pesticide Safety Resources • Funding and Translation Services AAPSE 2003

3. Language Trends and Literacy Issues • Jeffrey Jenkins • Gerald Kinro • Hugh Smith • Suzanne Snedeker • Sabina Swift • Wade Trevathan • Jennifer Weber USDA Photo by: Bob Nichols. Mike Gonzalez (right), NRCS and Petronilo Castorena discuss the health of this years heather crop. Castorena is a Salinas, California area grower. AAPSE 2003

4. Focus of Language Needs Survey • Languages spoken or read by people who handle pesticides or work in areas where pesticides have been applied USDA Photo by:Ken Hammond. On a tobacco farm in the Danville, VA area migrant Mexican worker Miguel Diaz carries picked tobacco from a field. AAPSE 2003

5. Survey Question #1 • What is the name of the state, community, or island that your responses represent? USDA Photo by: Ken Hammond . Sharon Del shows off the long hair of the Churro Sheep to her granddaughter Dekota Smith, on the Ganado Navajo Reservation Arizona. AAPSE 2003

6. Survey Question #2 • What languages are spoken and read by people who handle pesticides or work in areas where pesticides have been applied? USDA Photo by: Ken Hammond. A migrant worker from Jamaica picks McIntosh apples at an orchard in the Oxford, Maine area. AAPSE 2003

7. Question #3a • Do you see a need for the development of pesticide safety education materials in any of the languages that you have listed above? USDA Photo by: Bob Nichols.Chu Yang, NRCS, Soil Conservationist and Tou Xiong, Fresno State University graduate student and chairman of 1.5 acres donated by Fresno State University, Fresno, Calif, to a group of Hmong farmers. AAPSE 2003

8. Survey Question # 3b • If so, which languages are needed? USDA Photo by: Bob Nichols. Surjit Singh Toor, NRCS, Soil Conservationist, Yuba City, CA. field office. AAPSE 2003

9. Survey Method • AAPSE listserve • Internet searches • Phone interviews • Informal conversations • Existing resources AAPSE 2003

10. Non-English Language Pesticide Safety Education Materials Results from a Needs Assessment American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators Language Trends and Literacy Issues Subcommittee Jeff Jenkins Gerald Kinro Hugh Smith Suzanne Snedeker Sabina Swift Wade Trevathan Jennifer Weber AAPSE 2003

11. Spanish AAPSE 2003

12. Hmong California Georgia Illinois Massachusetts Minnesota Rhode Island Washington Wisconsin AAPSE 2003

13. Vietnamese Colorado Hawaii Louisiana Maryland New York Oklahoma Oregon Washington AAPSE 2003

14. Chinese Hawaii Illinois New Jersey New York Oregon Washington West Virginia AAPSE 2003

15. Cambodian California Hawaii Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Oregon AAPSE 2003

16. Russian Maryland New Jersey Oregon Pennsylvania AAPSE 2003

17. Haitian-Creole Florida North Carolina Virginia West Virginia AAPSE 2003

18. Korean Colorado Hawaii New Jersey Oregon AAPSE 2003

19. Laotian California Hawaii Oregon AAPSE 2003

20. Polish Illinois New York Pennsylvania AAPSE 2003

21. French Maine Maryland New York AAPSE 2003

22. Portuguese Massachusetts New Jersey Rhode Island AAPSE 2003

23. Tribal Communities in Oklahoma Apache Arapaho Cherokee Cheyenne Choctaw Chickasaw Creek Delaware Iowa Oto Ponca Seminole AAPSE 2003

24. Florida Spanish Speakers from: Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Mexico Caribbean islands South America AAPSE 2003

25. Maine Spanish French Filipino Swedish Somalian Norwegian AAPSE 2003

26. Hawaii Cambodian Chinese Ilokano Korean Laotian Spanish Tagalog Thai Tongan Vietnamese AAPSE 2003

27. Number of states with specificnon-English language needs AAPSE 2003