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Episode Synopsis
Diandra Morse joins us today for a critical conversation on how bilingualism and culture intersect in beautiful ways but also how ignoring these intersections can place undue burdens on BIPOC families working to preserve their heritage languages.
Diandra Morse, LCSW is a Dominican American Afro Latina Licensed Clinical Social Worker, raised in both the Dominican Republic and New York City. Diandra currently lives in Upstate NY and is raising two bilingual boys alongside her husband, who’s a non native speaker of Spanish. She has over 10 years of experience in trauma treatment, child advocacy, and identifying the social emotional needs of children and their families.
Following her passion for supporting children and families, Diandra created Bilingual Playdate, an Instagram account dedicated to parents and educators of bilingual children. Diandra uses her Bilingual Playdate platform to highlight resources available to parents and educators of bilingual children, provide education around language variations and linguistic oppression, and support the intentional use of Spanish indoors and outdoors via Spanish vocabulary cheat sheets and play based ideas.
Diandra also co-creates bilingual social emotional learning educational resources with Mikaela Martinez, a Project Based Kindergarten teacher and translates her educational resources to Spanish to increase access to quality educational resources.
You can connect with Diandra here: https://www.instagram.com/bilingualplaydate/
Diandra Morse, LCSW is a Dominican American Afro Latina Licensed Clinical Social Worker, raised in both the Dominican Republic and New York City. Diandra currently lives in Upstate NY and is raising two bilingual boys alongside her husband, who’s a non native speaker of Spanish. She has over 10 years of experience in trauma treatment, child advocacy, and identifying the social emotional needs of children and their families.
Following her passion for supporting children and families, Diandra created Bilingual Playdate, an Instagram account dedicated to parents and educators of bilingual children. Diandra uses her Bilingual Playdate platform to highlight resources available to parents and educators of bilingual children, provide education around language variations and linguistic oppression, and support the intentional use of Spanish indoors and outdoors via Spanish vocabulary cheat sheets and play based ideas.
Diandra also co-creates bilingual social emotional learning educational resources with Mikaela Martinez, a Project Based Kindergarten teacher and translates her educational resources to Spanish to increase access to quality educational resources.
You can connect with Diandra here: https://www.instagram.com/bilingualplaydate/
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