The Fanti “All About Me” books are part of a series of Ghanaian language books developed as literacy tools to be used by special education teachers in unit schools throughout Ghana. With these books, children can improve their vocabulary, literacy, and phonological awareness skills in both English and their native Ghanaian language. Books are available in English, Ga, Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi, Fanti, and Ewe. You may download PDFs of each of the four Fanti “All About Me” books by clicking on the links below.
Written by the Teachers College SLP Team & Ghana’s Unit School Teachers. Illustrated by Tina Yeung. Adapted for print by Sara Horne. Directed by Dr. Cate Crowley.
Check out this video of Belinda Bukari and Felicity reading the All About Me book on going to the market in Fanti about how the student goes to the market for his mom and uses the AAC market cards to buy the goods his mom needs for the family. Watch Belinda and Felicity role-play with Felicity as the market seller and Belinda as the student. This is for a class of students with intellectual disabilities and autism and cerebral palsy in Medina, on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.
These books are a great help as there are not many resources for Ghanaian languages, especially for abroad Ghanaians looking to improve their local languages and dialects. Especially in quite a variety. Would it be possible to bring in more Ga-Dangme language groups such as Krobo and maybe different Twi dialects like the Bron-Ahafo dialect? Keep up the great work, especially for children with the cleft palate!