Koorlungkas Yarning

What is the project about?

The Koorlungkas Yarning project is about giving Aboriginal families a voice in the way they teach their baby language and the importance of yarning.

It's an Aboriginal-based project that works with families to find out what is important to them in how babies' learn to communicate. For example, who speaks with baby? How they speak with baby? What they talk about? How language connects baby with family, with culture, with place.

This project is about empowering Aboriginal families to trust cultural ways of teaching babies to listen, learn and talk, and to share knowledge with other Aboriginal parents and carers.

Koorlungkas Yarning is part of a broader Urban Aboriginal Ear Health Research Program in the Perth metropolitan area.

What does participating in Koorlungkas Yarning involve?

We will have a yarn about babies learning language, share stories and let kids play:

• We will use video to capture some stories
• Then have a yarn about what helps babies learn to listen and talk
• We want to make a video that helps other families learn about how they can support their baby to learn, strong in their own culture

We are looking for 6-8 families with infants under 2 years of age.

Being involved in the project is voluntary and families can stop taking part at any time.

If you would like to know more about the project or would like to be involved please call 08 9489 7768 or email kyarning@telethonkids.org.au.