AAPSE Committee Non-English Language Materials for Pesticide Safety Education
- Language Trends and Literacy Issues
- Bilingual English & Spanish Word Bank
- Pesticide Safety Resources
- Funding and Translation Services
Language Trends and Literacy Issues
- Jeffrey Jenkins
- Gerald Kinro
- Hugh Smith
- Suzanne Snedeker
- Sabina Swift
- Wade Trevathan
- Jennifer Weber
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| 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. |
Focus of Language Needs Survey
- Languages spoken or read by people who handle pesticides or work in areas where pesticides have been applied
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| 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. |
Survey Question #1
- What is the name of the state, community, or island that your responses represent?
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| 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. |
Survey Question #2
- What languages are spoken and read by people who handle pesticides or work in areas where pesticides have been applied?
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| USDA Photo by: Ken Hammond. A migrant worker from Jamaica picks McIntosh apples at an orchard in the Oxford, Maine area. |
Survey 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?
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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 |
Survey Question #3b
- If so, which languages are needed?
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| USDA Photo by: Bob Nichols. Surjit Singh Toor, NRCS, Soil Conservationist, Yuba City, CA. field office. |
Survey Method
- AAPSE listserve
- Internet searches
- Phone interviews
- Informal conversations
- Existing resources
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
Spanish
Hmong (California,
Georgia,
Illinois,
Massachusetts,
Minnesota,
Rhode Island,
Washington,
Wisconsin)
Vietnamese (Colorado,
Hawaii,
Louisiana,
Maryland,
New York,
Oklahoma,
Oregon,
Washington)
Chinese (Hawaii,
Illinois,
New Jersey,
New York,
Oregon,
Washington,
West Virginia)
Cambodian (California,
Hawaii,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire,
New York,
Oregon)
Russian (Maryland,
New Jersey,
Oregon,
Pennsylvania)
Haitian-Creole (Florida,
North Carolina,
Virginia,
West Virginia)
Korean (Colorado,
Hawaii,
New Jersey,
Oregon)
Laotian (California,
Hawaii,
Oregon)
Polish (Illinois,
New York,
Pennsylvania)
French (Maine,
Maryland,
New York)
Portuguese (Massachusetts,
New Jersey,
Rhode Island)
Tribal Communities in Oklahoma (Apache,
Arapaho,
Cherokee,
Cheyenne,
Choctaw,
Chickasaw,
Creek,
Delaware,
Iowa,
Oto,
Ponca,
Seminole)
Florida: Spanish Speakers
from: (Dominican Republic,
Puerto Rico,
Mexico,
Caribbean islands,
South America)
Maine (Spanish,
French,
Filipino,
Swedish,
Somalian,
Norwegian)
Hawaii (Cambodian,
Chinese,
Ilokano,
Korean,
Laotian,
Spanish,
Tagalog,
Thai,
Tongan,
Vietnamese)
Number of states with specific non-English language needs
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