Internet Gold for School
Clinicians
ASHA SCHOOLS CONFERENCE
2009
Judith Maginnis Kuster
Most important URL today (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/2009schoolshandout.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
Use quotation marks (full-text searching)
Unique features -- * and ~
Consider Boolean searches (and/+, -/not, OR)
Kuster's Examples of Materials That Can Be Adapted for Therapy (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html)
combine strategies
learn some of the advanced strategies available
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)
pdf - Floor Time
(http://www.gvsu.edu/forms/autism/What%20is%20Floor%20Time.pdf)
+pdf - Story sequence (http://abcteach.com/free/s/story_pics__prek_set1_4.pdf)
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!
Some additional Google Gifts
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en - language tools
http://groups.google.com
http://news.google.com
http://www.google.com/prdhp?hl=en&tab=wf - product search
http://video.google.com
You Don't Always Die From Tobacco ' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHvZazd4IM)
Stuttering: For Kids by
Kids (www.stutteringhelp.org/default.aspx?tabindex=486&tabid=496)
http://blogsearch.google.com
http://books.google.com
http://scholar.google.com/
.gov: .edu: .com: .org:
link:www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/stutter.html
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 as well)
OneKey - http://www.onekey.com
- links to Google's safe search
Yahoo kids - http://kids.yahoo.com/
http://www.azkidsnet.com/JSknockjoke.htm
Ask for Kids - http://www.askkids.com/
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 for School-based Clinicians
General
Collections
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.
Internet4Claasrooms (http://www.internet4classrooms.com/index.htm)
totally amazing site you will get lost in for hours!
Reproducibles
Three Little Pigs felt board - (http://www.preschoolprintables.com/felt/3pigs/feltpigc2.shtml)
Additional
felt board items (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)
Story Starters (http://atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/index.shtml).
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 - over 11,000 free worksheets - (http://schoolexpress.com/fwsindex.php)
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)
StarFall - (http://www.starfall.com/n/N-info/abcprint.htm?n=abc)
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)
and many more!
Whomp (www.fekids.com/kln/games/whomp)
Build-a-Bear Interactive Activities
(www.buildabear.com/play/default.aspx?pageID=games)
Houghton Mifflin Spelling Match (www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/schtemplate.cgi?template=/kids/hmsv/smg/smg.thtml&game_file=game_6_30&grade=6&unit=30)
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)
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)
- includes
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)
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)
Little Red Riding Hood (http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/littlered/1.htm)
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)
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)
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.
Aesop's Fables (www.aesopfables.com)
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
Breaking News English podcast and script (http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/)
Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org)
Specific
Therapy Ideas and Materials
Hearing
disorders
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).
Funbrain (www.funbrain.com)
- sign the alphabet
Lesson Tutor's Dictionary Index (
http://www.lessontutor.com/eesASLdictionarylinks.html)
has ASL words illustrated in
simple line drawings.
Basic ASL: First 100 Signs http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm)
and Sign Language for Babies (www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi)
have ASL signs frequently used between parents and their young children.
ASL Browser (http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm)
Signwriting Children's Stories (www.signwriting.org/library/children/)
has several children's stories (including the Cat in the Hat) and poems in
sign.
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/)
Listening
Activities
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 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 (http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/greenhouse/greenhouse.html)
- provides practice in listening for beginning sounds and Pumpkin Patch (www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/pumpkin_patch/pumpkin_patch.html) provides practice listening
to sounds at the ends of words.
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 from the main page.
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)
Voice/VPI
materials
Lippy the Lion - a traveling educational tool (www.widesmiles.org/lippy/)
Anthony Visits His Cleft Palate Team by Joanne Green (http://www.widesmiles.org/Kids_Lit/anthonytm/)
Welcome to our clinic (http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/NR/rdonlyres/7B47C81C-BF2B-4504-A948-487956873EF2/0/activitybook.pdf)
Vocal Abuse Checklist for Children (http://speech.jppss.k12.la.us/Vocal%20Abuse%20Checklist%20For%20Children.doc)
Voice therapy techniques (http://web.archive.org/web/20031204003041/http://www.unc.edu/~chooper/classes/voice/webtherapy/index.html)
John Riski's Assessing VPI (http://www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=764) and Speech therapy to improve
hypernasality (http://www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=761)
Resources for Children and Adolescents about smoking (www.cdc.gov/tobacco/children.htm).
The Voice Academy (http://www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/index.html)
Fluency/Stuttering/Cluttering
Stuttering Home Page (www.stutteringhomepage.com)
Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teachers - video and book (http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=519)
To the Parents of the Nonfluent Child (http://stutteringrecovery.com/parent.html)
Translations of 2 SF brochures (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad10/papers/translation10/translation10.html)
It Gets Easier (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad7/papers/bridgebuilders7/bridgebuilders7.html)
Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus
(http://web.archive.org/web/20031204204258/http://stuttersfa.org/sijs/sijs.htm)
Working on Speech Rate program (www.speechrate.com)
Fluency Yahtzee: A Game of Choice (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/bennett9.html)
Daly's Cluttering Inventory (R) (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad10/papers/daly10/dalycluttering2006R.pdf)
Cluttering Assessment Program (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/bakker8/bakker8.html)
Speech
sound disorders
Decision Tree by Peter Flipsen (http://speech-language-therapy.com/tree.pdf).
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
Worksheets/printables from edHelper.com (http://www.edHelper.com)
Therapy Resources by Caroline Bowen (http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txresources.html)
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
Motor
Speech Disorders and Augmented/Alternative Communication
Comparison chart (www.apraxia-kids.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=chKMI0PIIsE&b=788447&ct=464135)
Teaching Ideas and Therapy Materials (www.prentrom.com/therapy_materials)
BUILLD Curriculum Guide
(www.prentrom.com/images/teaching/builld.pdf).
Communication aids for public libraries (www.scopevic.org.au/therapy_crc_lfa.html)
AAC Messaging and Vocabulary - word lists (http://aac.unl.edu/vocabulary.html)
YAACK Home Page (http://aac.unl.edu/yaack/)
Intellitools Activity Exchange (www.intellitools.com/index.htm)
Boardmaker Files http://callcentre.education.ed.ac.uk/Resources/resources.html)
Language
Big Dog's Grammar (http://aliscot.com/bigdog/)
OWL Online Writing Lab
(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html)
Grammar Blast (http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html#two)
quizzes for grades 2-5
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
MES English - free printable for teachers of young learners. (www.mes-english.com)
Figurative Language - (http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/343/27/)
Cambridge Dictionary of Idioms - contains idiom worksheets (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/idiomswksheets.pdf)
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/)
Free Rice (http://www.freerice.com)
Online version of Twenty Questions - (http://www.20q.net/)
Crickler (http://crickler.com/crickler.html)
- a new type of crossword puzzle
Rootonym (www.uclick.com/client/mma/tmroo/)
KidsCom Hangman (www.kidscom.com/games/hangman/hangman.html)
Patrick Ecker's Mini-Books for Language (http://www.patrickecker.org/minibooks.htm)
Autism
Spectrum Disorders
Symbol World (www.symbolworld.org/index.htm)
Widgit Resources (www.widgit.com/resources/index.htm)
Facial Expressions (http://www.dotolearn.com/games/facialexpressions/index.htm)
from DoToLearn.
Expression cards (http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/40/Prosopagnosia.xhtml)
from SEN Teacher
Make Beliefs Comix (www.makebeliefscomix.com/)
Picture Recipes (www.bry-backmanor.org/picturerecipes.html)
Social Stories (www.frsd.k12.nj.us/autistic/Social%20Stories/social_stories.htm)
and (http://www.polyxo.com/socialstories)
Beyond Autism Pecs Pictures and Icons (http://trainland.tripod.com/pecs.htm)
Children with Special Needs PECS Downloads (http://www.childrenwithspecialneeds.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=66)
The Puzzle of Autism is
a 38-page guide published by the
National Education Association (http://www.autism-society.org/site/DocServer/autismpuzzle.pdf?docID=3821) that explains the common features of autism
and suggests effective classroom strategies for improving communication,
sensory, social and behavioral skills.
Second
Language Learners
Aardvark's English-Forum.Com (www.englishforum.com/00/interactive)
- lots of interactive language exercises
Interesting Things for ESL Students (www.manythings.org)
Webster Comnet Guide to Grammar and Writing (http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/)
has Royal order of adjectives (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm)
ESL Resource Center (www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm)
Paul Brian's Common Errors in English (www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html)
What American Accent Do You Have? (www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have)
German accent (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMQjRkoGH3Y)
Speech Accent Archive (http://accent.gmu.edu)
examines the accented speech of speakers from different language backgrounds
reading the same sample paragraph.
Merriam-Webster Online
Dictionary (http://www.m-w.com/)
Creating
materials using online Generators and Templates
Generators
The Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker (www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/)
Puzzlemaker (http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/)
- several different kinds
Bingo Generator (www.dltk-cards.com/bingo/bingo1.asp)
DLTK's Growing Together
Concentration/Memory cards from (www.dltk-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)
A Web Quest generator (http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/)
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).
Worksheet Maker - http://www.123listening.com/worksheetmakers/choosepicture2.php
offers free listening quiz makers, an activity wizard, lesson plan
materials
Worksheet Genius - http://www.worksheetgenius.com/html/english_worksheets.php
PowerPoint
Templates
Stuttering Jeopardy (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/kuster92.html)
by Judy Kuster
My Story by Diane Games (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/games9.html)
PowerPoint activities from the Jefferson County School District
(http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-la.html).
Create a PowerPoint book
template (some examples - http://priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/books.htm)
download (http://priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/cgi-bin/download.pl?file=booktemplate.zip)
Materials That Can Be Adapted
for Therapy (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html)
Copyright - Judith Maginnis
Kuster - July 26, 2009