INTERNET GOLD
FILLING YOUR CLINIC FILES AFFORDABLY
Moog Institute Conference - June 27,
2009
Judith Maginnis Kuster
Most
important URL today (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/2009mooghandout.html)
Finding reliable information using
a standard search engine: "Google-ing" (good, but not perfect!) http://www.google.com
Some ways to make Google work
better for you
Choose
keywords carefully
Consider using quotation marks (full-text searching)
Unique
features -- * and ~
Consider Boolean searches (and/+, -/not, OR)
Online Seminars (CEUs) - live
and recorded
http://www.cochlearamericas.com/PDFs/Online2008.2009.pdf
(http://www.audiologyonline.com/aointeractive/courses/courses.asp?cp_pid=6
Cochlear Education - free
registration for online CEU offerings - both live and recorded (unlimited CEUs
for $99)
The Source for Children with
Cochlear Implants by David Ertmer, Ph.D. - (.7 CEUs from LinguiSystems, free
CEU based on a $43.95 book from
LinguiSystems) http://www.linguisystems.com/ceu_course_info.php?courseid=9
combine
strategies
Hard of Hearing and Deaf
Students:
A Resource Guide to Support Classroom Teachers from the British
Columbia Ministry of Education
(http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/hearimpair/toc.htm)
Google
lets you ask questions
Cochlear Implant Lab - UTD demos - http://www.utdallas.edu/~loizou/cimplants/
University of California-Irvine, Hearing and Speech Lab
simulations - http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/hesp/Simulations/simulationsmain.htm
House Institute Demos http://www.hei.org/research/aip/audiodemos.htm
Explore features of Google's header (including "more")
image
search - the ear (http://www.audigygroup.com/info/mechanics.html)
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
- language tools
http://groups.google.com
Kids
Missing Alert - http://groups.google.com/group/kidsmissing?lnk=srg&hl=en
http://news.google.com
http://www.google.com/prdhp?hl=en&tab=wf
- product search
http://video.google.com
42
minute video of Blake's cochlear implant - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8631831585396907103&ei=9ow_SqTtFI_qqgL93pyWBQ&q=cochlear+implant&hl=en
Kevin
series! - First birthday - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6634984338482692399&ei=AI4_SvbYGYqCqQKbppiWBQ&q=cochlear+implant+%2BKevin&hl=en
http://blogsearch.google.com
Jordan's Cochlear Implant Journey - http://rallycapsdotnet.blogspot.com/2009/06/wise-child-and-ignorant-man.html
http://books.google.com
http://scholar.google.com/
practice some of the advanced strategies available
advanced image search - The Three Little Pigs
(http://coloringpagesforkids.info/category/the-three-little-pigs/)
Coloring
Pages for Kids (http://coloringpagesforkids.info)
- contains hundreds of pages in over a hundred categories - great resource!
pdf - "deaf culture"
What do you
know about deaf culture? - (http://www.mcbw.org/files/u1/deafculture.pdf)
+pdf -
Story sequence (http://abcteach.com/free/s/story_pics__prek_set1_4.pdf)
pdf terms - children hearing loss parents resource
Resource Guide
For Parents of Hearing Impaired Children (85 pages) http://www.northshorelij.com/workfiles/hearingandspeec/hearingandspeechparentguide.pdf
Children with
Hearing Loss: Resource Guide for Parents(64 pages) - http://www.rsdeaf.org/pdfs/Guide_For_Parents.pdf
Information for Parents of Children with Hearing Loss (50
pages) http://www.vahealth.org/hearing/documents/2005/resourceguide.pdf
Hearing Loss Resource Guide for Families of Children with
Hearing Loss (68 pages) http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/mch/Genetics/ehddi/Documents/Resource-Eng.pdf
ppt --
Idiom game
(http://www.hlschool.org/cwalkerweb/PPPARAETECH07/PowerPointParadise/PPTgame-update.ppt)
+ppt
--Brown Bear
(http://www.kinderfriends.com/brownbear.ppt)
(http://www.supporting-ict.co.uk/useful/brownbear.ppt)
Searching for "kid friendly"
information and materials
Recommended
"kid-friendly" Search Engines (There
are "Family Filters" - on several search engines - e.g. AltaVista,
msnsearch and your school probably has a built-in filter)
OneKey
- http://www.onekey.com - links to Google's
safe search
Yahoo
kids - http://kids.yahoo.com/
Knock Knock- http://www.azkidsnet.com/JSknockjoke.htm
Ask
for Kids - http://www.askkids.com/
Tongue Twisters - http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~ralph/tt.html
Zoo.com - http://www.zoo.com
Recommended
"kid-friendly" Directories
Kids.Net.Au - http://kids.net.au -
Australian directory for kids
Kids
and Teens Open Directory - http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/
From
Internet Public Library
KidSpace - http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
Teenspace - http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/
Berit's Best Sites for Children - http://www.beritsbest.com/
Getting an error message? Try:
check URL very carefully
htm/html
. : //
most URLs are case sensitive
CAPS
/ at the end
check for _
check for paragraph marker
move backwards
try adding www
use search engine
check "cache" in Google (or Yahoo)
Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org
Gigablast - http://www.gigablast.com
Examples of Freely-available Materials
General Collections - Speech
and Language
Targets and Activities Project (www.commtap.org/index.html)
Speech Teach UK Downloads (www.speechteach.co.uk/p_general/downloads.htm)
Communication Connects (www.communicationconnects.com/therapist_techniques.asp)
SpeakingofSpeech materials exchange (http://www.speakingofspeech.com/Materials_Exchange.html)
and
This
Works for Me from Speaking of Speech.com (http://www.speakingofspeech.com/This_Works_For_Me_.html)
Free
Language Stuff - (http://freelanguagestuff.com/)
- over 300 pages of language activities in 26 areas
Internet4Claasrooms (http://www.internet4classrooms.com/index.htm)
totally amazing site you will get lost in for hours!
http://www.fekids.com/kln/games/wordjungle
http://www.dositey.com/lanugague/phonics/phonics2.htm
Woodlands
Literacy Zone an amazing site with links to online interactive activities on words
and spellings, grammar and punctuation, writing and text work, and online
stories. (www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm)
Gamequarium - (http://www.gamequarium.com) - you'll
spend DAYS on this site
ABC book to color - http://www.jiff-e-books.com/Coloring%20Book/Coloring%20Book.pdf
Same Letter, Different Sound - http://www.toonuniversity.com/quiz.asp
Are You my Mother http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=3431
Primary Resources - http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/english.htm
Adjective cards - http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/pdfs/adjectivecards.pdf
Add an
Adjective PPT http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/powerpoints/Add_an_adjective.ppt
Reproducibles
Three
Little Pigs felt board - (http://www.preschoolprintables.com/felt/3pigs/feltpigc2.shtml)
plus
more at (http://www.preschoolprintables.com/felt/felt.shtml)
Animal Concentration Cards (www.bry-backmanor.org/animalconcentration.html)
Speech
Guy, free sample from Therasimplicity (www.therasimplicity.com)
Paper
Dolls - http://www.makingfriends.com/
File
Folder Games (www.preschoolprintables.com/filefolder/filefolder.shtml)
Kizclub
(www.kizclub.com) has a variety of
activities and printables.
DLTK's
"Sponge Bob," sentence sequencing, and much more! (www.dltk-kids.com)
The Attic (www.bry-backmanor.org/activitypages.html)
Story
Starters (http://atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/index.shtml).
Chateau Meddybemps (www.meddybemps.com) - young writer's
workshop
Dot to Dot (www.kidsrcrafty.com/dot-to-dot.htm)
400
free printable worksheets (choose "early English") (http://preschoollearners.com/)
Teach-nology's
Free Language Arts Worksheets - hundreds of free samples
(www.myworksheets.com/language_arts/)
including Mad Libs worksheets (http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/madlibs/)
School
Express - 11,000+ free worksheets - (http://schoolexpress.com/fwsindex.php)
StarFall - (http://www.starfall.com/n/N-info/abcprint.htm?n=abc)
PictureSET (http://www.setbc.org/pictureset/)
- HUGE collection of downloadable visual supports
Christmas book
(http://www.setbc.org/pictureset/resource.aspx?id=128)
Farm animals
(http://www.setbc.org/pictureset/resource.aspx?id=134)
Classmate book
(http://www.setbc.org/pictureset/resource.aspx?id=129)
Who-Where
(http://www.setbc.org/pictureset/resource.aspx?id=332)
Interactive Web Sites
Juniors
Web - many activities including The Matching Game (http://JuniorsWeb.com) (match words that rhyme
or play Concentration)
Crickweb -
activities including Dressing Lecky (www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html),
Colors (http://www.crickweb.co.uk/colour-english.html)
Compound words (http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=compound%20words),
Word
Dice (www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=worddice),
etc.
Whomp (www.fekids.com/kln/games/whomp)
- like an online Boggle
Games
from Scholastic - Nina Loves to Name Things (http://teacher.scholastic.com/ACTIVITIES/bll/nina/index.htm)
and
I Spy - (http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/play/healthyfun/index.asp)
Subservient Chicken (www.subservientchicken.com)
Ozmo the Oracle (www.cyberhaunt.com/site/fun/attractions/ozmo.html)
Monkey Squash and many more
activities. (http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-play-and-learn.htm),
part of LearnEnglishKids (www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm)
Quia's Online Autumn Hangman (www.quia.com/hm/1726.html) - an
easy version, available in "Flash" or "html" version.
Build-a-Bear Activities - (www.buildabear.com/play/default.aspx?pageID=games)
What's
in the Bag (http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html)
Sorting
Games (www.mape.org.uk/activities/sorting_games/index.htm)
You or your student can also make sorting games by thinking of yes/no
questions.
Primary
Games (Language Arts http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm)
- Chickenary (http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/chicktionary/index.htm)
Word Lab (http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/wordlab/start.htm)
and many more.
Star
Fall ABC's (http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f)
Flood!
(http://pbskids.org/lions/games/flood.html)
Yeti, The Abominable snowman (http://www.newweb.net/cgi-bin/yeti/yeticgi.pl)
- a Knowbot
Interactive Literacy Resources - Three Little Pigs, etc. (http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/pageliteracy.html)
Short articles/stories, rhymes
and books online
Reading
A to Z (http://readinga-z.com) is a
subscription site, but also has many free downloadable books.
MysteryNet.com has short mystery stories for children and adults (http://www.mysterynet.com)
Aesop's
Fables - (http://www.umass.edu/aesop)
nicely illustrated.
Webbing
Into Literacy: A Head Start Program (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html)
Books
with Repeated Lines (http://www.aacintervention.com/repeat.htm)
The
Little Red Hen (http://homepages.wmich.edu/%7Ek4kenned/little%20red%20hen.htm)
The Very
Hungry Caterpillar - entire book in black and white line drawings (www.hubbardscupboard.org/Very_Hungry_Caterpillar_Printable_Booklet.PDF)
or (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GasRJRlDEJ4/SYJeLwK2xQI/AAAAAAAAAQE/aacpD_S41nw/s1600-h/csequencing.gif)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/storytimeonline/alexander.thml)
The
Gingerbread Man (www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/gingerbread-man/index.htm)
But
That Wasn't the Best Part - (http://www.meddybemps.com/8.1.html)
The
Animals of Farmer Jones (http://www.antiquebooks.net/readpage.html#golden)
Brown
Bear, Brown Bear (http://www.dlti-teach.com/books/brownbear/index.htm)
and (www.supporting-ict.co.uk/useful/brownbear.ppt)
Popular Children's Stories (www.popularchildrenstories.com/)
has links to over 1000 stories and nursery rhymes for children, including many
familiar illustrated stories. Check The Three Little Pigs for pictures to
sequence - http://www.popularchildrenstories.com/stories/Children-Stories-The-Three-Little-Pigs-0008.htm
Little
Red Riding Hood (http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/littlered/1.htm)
The
Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (www.gutenberg.org/etext/10607)
48
Mother Goose and nursery rhyme pages to print out and color (www.niteowl.org/kids/index.html)
Rhyme a
Week (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm)
Rhyme
pages (www.EnchantedLearning.com/Rhymes.html)
rebus rhymes and rhyme sequencing
Nursery
Rhymes - midi format (www.nursery-rhymes.info)
Magnetic Poetry - like refrigerator magnets (www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm)
- rhymes to unscramble.
Word
Families and Rhyme Words (http://aslp.byu.edu/BCulatta/projectcall/rhymewordslist.html)
Online
rhyming dictionary (http://www.writeexpress.com/online2.html)
Rhymezone - (www.rhymezone.com) - a
search engine for rhyming words!
Electronic books - read-along
or listen to
Storyline Online - famous actors read children's stories (www.storylineonline.net/)
Between the
Lions Stories (http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/)
- many stories from PBS
Clifford's Interactive Storybooks (http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1)
StarFall (http://starfall.com) - features
interactive books.
Children's books online, the Rosetta Project (www.childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm#top)
Sound
Stories (www.candlelightstories.com/soundstoryblog/SountStoryBlog.htm)
Teacher
Tap - Electronic Books and Online Reading (http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic93.htm)
Children's Story Podcast (http://storynory.com/)
- free weekly audio story
Specific Therapy Ideas and Materials
Hearing disorders/Listening
Activities
Discrimination Cards from the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program (http://web.archive.org/web/20071227205726/http://www.sickkids.ca/cochlearimplant/section.asp?s=For+Therapists&sID=6702&ss=Discrimination+cards&ssID=6768)
Speech
and Auditory Training Activities (www.deafed.net/PublishedDocs/sub/980122w.htm).
Scott
Bradley's hearing loss simulator (http://facstaff.uww.edu/bradleys/radio/hlsimulation/)
Scott
Bradley's Wireless FM (Auditory Trainer) Simulation - (http://facstaff.uww.edu/bradleys/radio/fm/)
Tools
to display sound signals - free, cross-platform sound editor software for
recording (and editing if you want). Displays pitch, intensity, spectrogram,
voice breaks, etc.
Audacity (http://city.sourceforge.net/)
PRAAT (http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/)
WaveSurfer (http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/)
Additional tools linked to "Speech analysis and transcription
software" (http://liceu.uab.cat/~joaquim/phonetics/fon_anal_acus/herram_anal_acus.html)
Dennis
Drayna's Distorted Tunes Test (http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/dtt.asp)
FindSounds (www.findsounds.com/types.html)
is a search engine for locating online sounds made by birds, animals, natural
events, household items, musical instruments, holiday events, people, tools,
vehicles, and more.
Animal
pictures (http://vigfusina.is/ymislegt/hljodaspil/dyr/spjald3.htm)
Animal
Sounds (www.abc.net.au/children/bananas/games/animal_sounds/default.htm)
Who Am
I - guess animal sounds (http://www.kidsplanet.org/games/js/whoami.html)
Fisher
Price Animal Sounds Game (www.fisher-price.com/us/littlepeople/clubhouse/games.asp?section=animalsounds&gameID=LP_AnimalSounds)
Lanolin's Greenhouse provides practice in listening for beginning sounds (http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/greenhouse/greenhouse.html)
and Pumpkin Patch provides practice listening to sounds at the ends of words. (www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/pumpkin_patch/pumpkin_patch.html)
Fuzzy
Lion Ears (http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ears.html)
- listening for sounds in words.
The Listening Room provides free activities and
resources to support the development of speech, language and listening skills
of children and adult cochlear implant recipients. (www.hearingjourney.com/listening_room/index.cfm?langid=1)
123Listening.com (http://www.123listening.com/)
printable activities to use with free downloadable audio files and mp3
listening tracks available
Manythings Minimal Pairs listening exercise (http://www.manythings.org/pp/)
Interactive Audio-Picture English Lessons (http://www.web-books.com/Language/Inter0/English_Main.htm)
Sound-Object Association from Listen-Up – (http://www.listen-up.org/dnload/listen.pdf)
Speech sound disorders
QUIA (http://www.quia.com/shared) - 30 day free
trial, then subscription, BUT -
Articulation games (http://www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html)
by Tracy Gefroh Boyd
Speechers are Great Teachers (www.quia.com/pages/speechersclass.html)
by Lonn Swanson
Speech-Language online games! by Pamela Bordas. (http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordashome.html)
A
Collection of Approaches to the "R" Sound (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/rtherapy.html)
The Sounds of English and Spanish (http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/)
Minimal
pairs (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/)
by John Higgins
Materials from Caroline Bowen
Minimal Pairs lists http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/wordlists.html
And
pictures http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/tx-/stopping-fricatives.pdf
MANY
Therapy Resources (http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txresources.html)
Worksheets/printables from edHelper.com (http://www.edHelper.com)
How to
make a "one-cut" book (http://www.raft.net/ideas/Simple%20Book.pdf)
http://www.speechtx.com/articulation.htm - articulation one-cut books!
e.g. http://www.speechtx.com/articulation/pdf/r_words_QP.pdf
Language
Treasure
for Teachers - (http://www.treasureforteachers.com/index2.html)
- from the Sydney Region Central North Learning Assistance Team - search the
months listed and especially the teachers and download pages (http://www.treasureforteachers.com/teachers.html)
and Handy Games for teaching Language - (http://www.treasureforteachers.com/lang.html)
QUIA
language activities
Tracy
Gefroh Boyd
word/language games (http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html)
sequencing games (http://www.quia.com/pages/sequencingfun.html)
Lonn
Swanson
Grammar Crackers games/activities
(www.quia.com/pages/grammarcrackers.html)
World
of Words vocabulary games by Lonn Swanson (http://www.quia.com/pages/worldowords.html)
Pamela
Bordas
Literature Games http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordasliterature.html
Idioms
- http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordasidioms.html
Antonyms - http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordasantonyms.html
Synonyms - http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordassynonyms.html
Conjunctions - http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordasconjunctions.html
Word
classes - http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordaswordclasses.html
Questions - http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordasquestions.html
Grammar Blast quizzes for grades 2-5
(http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html#two)
Interesting Things for ESL Students (www.manythings.org)
MES
English - free printable for teachers of young learners. (www.mes-english.com)
Paint
by Idioms (www.funbrain.com/idioms/index.html)
Language Guide (http://www.languageguide.org/english/)
including "The Body" (http://www.languageguide.org/im/body/eng/)
Patrick
Ecker's Mini-Books for Language (http://www.patrickecker.org/minibooks.htm)
Creating materials using online
Generators and Templates
Generators
Free
teaching resources for special needs (www.senteacher.org)-
make your own Dominoes (www.senteacher.org/Enlarge/22/Dominoes.xhtml)
Game
cards (http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/11/Games.xhtml),
and Flash cards (http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/6/PECS.xhtml)
The
Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker (www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/)
Puzzlemaker (http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/)
- several different kinds
DLTK's
Growing Together
Bingo
Generator (www.dltk-cards.com/bingo/bingo1.asp)
Concentration/Memory cards
from (www.dtk-cards.com/memory/index.htm)
Custom Dominoes (www.dltk-cards.com/dominos/index.htm)
Custom Awards and Certificates (www.dltk-cards.com/award/)
Story-Making Machine (http://communicationconnects.com/stories.asp)
Story
builder (http://www.literacyaccessonline.com/Literacy/BuildStory/builder.asp)
Patrick
Ecker: Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
site (www.patrickecker.org/) has a few
nice materials to download (PDF files) plus wonderful pictures and a template
to create your own materials (PC only).
Game
board templates to use with various flashcards
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/gameboard.htm
Worksheet
Maker - has free listening quiz makers, an activity wizard, lesson plan
materials - http://www.123listening.com/worksheetmakers/choosepicture2.php
Worksheet Genius - http://www.worksheetgenius.com/html/english_worksheets.php
PowerPoint Templates
Stuttering Jeopardy by Judy Kuster
(http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/kuster92.html)
My
Story by Diane Games (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/games9.html)
Create
a PowerPoint book template (download for MAC or PC) http://priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/book.htm
Helping
Children Tell Their Own Story - http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad11/papers/therapy11/gasway11.html
Julie Gasway and MaryAnn Simpson
(who used iPhoto -
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/print-products.html)
describe how they made books with their young clients, including a child with a
cochlear implant (My Ears are On! The Story of a
Little Girl and Her Cochlear Implant - http://www.myearsareon.com/)
PowerPoint activities from the Jefferson County School District (http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-la.html).
MORE Materials That Can Be Adapted for Therapy (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html)
Copyright - Judith Maginnis Kuster - July 27, 2009