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Due to traumatic experiences, Yazidi students suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Therefore, school staff need training to recognize the symptoms of PTSD, and schools must provide targeted counselling services and connections to community-based services. Yazidi students are often illiterate or have gaps in education, so schools need to incorporate inclusive practices to increase engagement, and provide instruction that focuses on emergent literacy and functional language. Teachers require specific training that addresses the academic needs of Yazidi students.  \nThe Yazidi refugee population is a relatively new, but growing, group of refugees. Winnipeg currently has the largest population of Yazidi refugees in Canada (Wilkinson et al. , 2019) . Most Yazidis come from northern Iraq, and are escaping religious persecution and genocide at the hands of Daesh1 (Standing Committee, 2018) . Beginning in August 2014, 40,000 Yazidis tried to escape to the Sinjar Mountains. Thousands of women and children were kidnapped, raped, and sold in slave markets (Kizilhan & Noll-Hussong, 2017) . Yazidi families who escaped and arrived in Canada are living with extreme trauma (Standing Committee, 2018) . Their children are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), resulting in mental health issues and emotional dysregulation (Khamis, 2019) . Schools can be key in identifying the symptoms of PTSD and ensuring that students and their families have access to essential mental health services (Baak et al. , 2019) . Most Yazidi students have significant gaps in education or no formal education at all, and are therefore illiterate (Wilkinson et al. , 2019) . To close these gaps, schools must adopt a holistic approach that incorporates language and literacy, and initiatives that embrace diversity and inclusion (McNeely et al. , 2017) . This poses challenges for teachers who are not trained to support students with such intensive academic and emotional needs (Raponi, 2016) . Teachers require professional development related to PTSD and, especially for middle and senior years teachers, early literacy learning and intervention strategies (Jowett, 2019) .  \nMental Health Supports  \nYazidi children, young girls in particular, have had horrendous experiences that make them susceptible to mental health issues (Standing Committee, 2018) . When children suffer from trauma, they frequently exhibit symptoms of PTSD such as mental health issues, recurring memories about the traumatic event, and severe anxiety (Perry & Szalavitz, 2017) . In turn, this can lead to prolonged states of emotional dysregulation (Mancini, 2019) . For refugee children, PTSD and emotional dysregulation often go hand in hand (Khamis, 2019) . They may have a dissociative response, mentally removing themselves from the present situation. Essentially, the students will shut off their emotions and become “numb” to the world around them (Perry & Szalavitz, 2017) . As a result, Yazidi students struggle with behaviour problems and hostility,  \n1 “also called ‘Islamic State,’ ‘IS,’ ‘ISIS’ or ‘ISIL’” (Standing Committee, 2018, p. 7)  \nwhich can lead to a lack of connection with their classmates and their school community. I have witnessed Yazidi students whose anxiety is so debilitating that they withdraw to the point of not leaving their homes. If the mental health needs of Yazidi students are not properly diagnosed and treated, students will disengage. This can lead to a lack of academic success, and in the later grades students are more susceptible to quitting school (Mancini, 2019) . For Yazidi students to thrive, it is imperative for schools to recognize and to deal with the effects of trauma that these stude","cbCaif8dwv5whdGd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif8dwv5whdGd","pdf",400208,"English","# Abstract\n## Mental Health Supports\n## Identifying the signs of PTSD and providing mental health supports\n## Academic Programming","[{\"question\":\"What primary issue does the paper focus on regarding Yazidi refugee students in Canada?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on the difficulties Yazidi refugee students face after arrival, especially trauma-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the resulting educational and emotional challenges.\"},{\"question\":\"How can schools support students affected by PTSD, according to the paper?\",\"answer\":\"Schools should train staff to recognize PTSD symptoms, provide targeted counselling services, and establish an organized recognition-to-referral-to-follow-up system with communication and documentation.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper emphasize language and literacy instruction for Yazidi students?\",\"answer\":\"Many Yazidi students are illiterate or have major gaps in education, so schools need inclusive practices and instruction focused on emergent literacy and functional language to improve engagement and learning.\"}]","Yazidi Refugee Students - A Lost Generation Finding Their Way | PDF",1792080361,13]