Judith Maginnis Kuster
Minnesota State
University, Mankato
All of
the resources are hot-linked below!
Disclaimer: Be aware that URLs change and disappear and other
sites are available and will become available. These sites are provided simply
as good examples.
I. EXPLORING THE INVISIBLE AND THE VISIBLE WEB
ACCESSING PEER-REVIEWED
INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET
A. The Free "Invisible
Web"
€ Cochrane Library - http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/clibintro.htm
abstracts
- http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/index.htm
€ Center for Reviews and Dissemination - http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/
Includes
DARE - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
€ Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences
(ANCDS) -
http://www.ancds.org
(check out the practice guidelines - (http://www.ancds.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=9)
€ What Works Clearinghouse - http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
€ Best Evidence Encyclopedia - http://www.bestevidence.org/
€ Campbell Collaboration - http://www.campbellcollaboration.org
example: Effectiveness of Phonemic Awareness Training on Reading and
Spelling Achievement in Elementary School Children
example: Effectiveness of Behavioral-Based Interventions for Stuttering in
Children and Adolescents
example: The effects of the Picture Exchange Communication System
(PECS) on prelinguistic behaviors, speech production, and expressive social
regulation and communicative functions in children with Autism Spectrum
Disorders (ASD)
example: Speech and language therapy interventions for children with
primary speech and language delay or disorder
€ Evidence-Based Practice Briefs - http://www.speechandlanguage.com/ebp/index.asp
http://www.speechandlanguage.com/ebp/pdfs/2-4-december-2007.pdf
- on stuttering
€ ASHA's N-CEBP (http://www.asha.org/members/ebp/compendium/)
members only
€ Clinical Guidelines, Royal College of Speech & Language
Therapists (2005) (http://www.rcslt.org/resources/RCSLT_Clinical_Guidelines.pdf)
€ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) http://www.ahrq.gov
(http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf06/speech/speechrev.htm)
€ National Guideline Clearinghouse - http://www.guideline.gov/
(http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=10861&nbr=005674&string=cerumen+AND+management)
ACCESSING PEER-REVIEWED
LITERATURE ON THE INTERNET
€ ERIC database - http://www.eric.ed.gov/
€ PubMed - http://clinical.uthscsa.edu/pubmed/
(interface
for MEDLINE, National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database)
€ TRIP Database - http://www.tripdatabase.com/
keywords
lead to other sites or answers from TRIP
Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects
(CRISP) - searchable
database of federally funded biomedical research
projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.
- http://crisp.cit.nih.gov
OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man - a catalog of human genes
and genetic
disorders http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=omim
A few additional examples
where work on Efficacy Information in ComDis has started online
A FEW ONLINE EFFICACY
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
€ Efficacy in Dysphagia Treatment - http://www.dysphagia.com/reference
€ Efficacy in Stuttering Treatment
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/efficacy/stutteringefficacy.html
€ Efficacy Information on the Internet in Speech-Language
Pathology and
Audiology
- http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/efficacy/efficacy.html
€ Speech-Language Evidence Based Research -
http://www.utdallas.edu/library/callier/SLPEBM.htm
€ ASHA's National Center for Treatment Efficacy
Bibliography - Still available at http://callierlibrary.utdallas.edu/treatment_efficacy_bibliography.pdf
€ (Bamford-Lahey efficacy bibliographies - no longer online, but
still available at
http://web.archive.org/web/20070202124559/http://bamford-lahey.org/bibliographies.html)
FEE-BASED DATABASES AND
RESEARCH INFORMATION
€ EMBASE - http://www.embase.com -
Gateway to Biomedical and
Pharmacological
Information
€ Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
http://www.cinahl.com/prodsvcs/prodsvcs.htm
- database - nursing and allied health.
€ OVID - http://www.ovid.com -
electronic medical, health and life sciences information
solutions.
€ OCLC FirstSearch - http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch
a nonprofit, membership,
computer library service and research organization
€ Ingenta - http://www.ingenta.com -
comprehensive collection of academic and
professional
publications available for online, fax and Ariel delivery
€ HighBeam - http://www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp?
collection of
articles
from leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years
€ Psycinfo - http://www.apa.org/psycinfo
- an abstract (not full-text) database of
psychological
literature from the 1800s to the present.
€ The Dome - http://www.comdisdome.com/
(at
MSU - http://eresources.lib.mnsu.edu to Resources to General Resources)
FREELY-AVAILABLE
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH INFORMATION
€ ASHA Journals - (AJA (complete -1991-present), AJSLP (complete 1992-present) ,
JSLHR
(complete 1997-present), LSHSS - 1990-present) Also has archive of back
journals
- JSHD - 1990 (last year printed) and JSHR from 1990-1996. Great
member
benefit! http://www.asha.org/members/deskref-journals/
€ Free medical Journals Site - http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
€ Hardin Library for the Health Sciences http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html
€ High Wire Press http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
€ Directory of Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org/
€ Journal of Fluency Disorders http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0094730X
€ Journal of Stuttering Therapy, Advocacy and Research - www.journalofstuttering.com
€ ASHA Conference Papers -
Abstract archives starting with 2002 ASHA convention -
http://search.asha.org/?col=conv&ql=a
plus some convention handouts and some PPTs are available for the current the
conventions. (2004 papers available at
http://convention.asha.org/2004/handouts.cfm,
2006 papers available at
http://convention.asha.org/2006/handouts.cfm,
2007 handouts are available at
http://convention.asha.org/2007/handouts.cfm),
2008 handouts are available at
http://convention.asha.org/handouts.cfm
FREELY-AVAILABLEPROFESSIONAL
LEARNING (SOME FOR ASHA CEUS)
Dysphagia Training
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/training/DD%20Library%20Topics%20Health%20and%20Safety.htm
An Introduction to Autism -
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/training/DD%20Library%20Topics%20Supports%20and%20Therapies.htm
Genetics in the Practice of Speech-Language Pathology and
Audiology
International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conferences
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/isadarchive/onlineconference.html
SpeechPathology.com - http://www.speechpathology.com
(free for students)
Audiology online - http://www.audiologyonline.com
Prentke-Romich - http://www.prentrom.com/training/asha
Passy-Muir - http://www.passy-muir.com
Linguisystems - http://www.linguisystems.com/ceu_intro.php
AAC Institute - http://www.aacinstitute.org
Non-peer-reviewed
invisible web resources
INVISIBLE WEB RESOURCES -
NOT PEER-REVIEWED
€ Encyclopedia - http://wikipedia.org
€ Newspapers - http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
€ Magazines - http://newslink.org/mag.html
Accessing discussion
forums and searching archives (also provides opportunities for Personal
Connections with those who have had experience)
€ Archives of discussion forums
€
mailing lists - subscribe to individual list for archives of past discussion
€
listserv
€
yahoogroups
€ RecoveredKids - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RecoveredKids/
- "This list is parents of kids recovered or on the road to
recovery from autism." Has over 1600 members!
example: Parent reports of what worked for their kids on yahoogroups http://home.san.rr.com/autismnet/rollcall.html
€
newsgroups - http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=gtype%3D0
Dedicated Internet
Databases and Webliographies/Subject Guides
DEDICATED
DATABASES/WEBLIOGRAPHIES
€ Internet Public Library (IPL) - http://www.ipl.org/div/sitesearch/
€ Family Village - http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu
€ US Government Resources
€
National Library of Medicine Directory of Health Organization
Online
- http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/stutter.html
€
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders (NIDCD) - http://www.nidcd.nih.gov
SUBJECT GUIDES
€
Caroline Bowen's Communication Disorders Home Page
http://speech-language-therapy.com/
€ Eric H. Chudler's Neurological Disorder Resources
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/disorders.html
€
Guide to Otolaryngology Resources on the Internet (maintained by Aletta
Moore) - http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/oto/others.html
€
Judith Kuster's Net Connections to Communication Disorders
http://www.communicationdisorders.com
B. The "Visible Web"
EXPLORING THE VISIBLE WEB
€ Quackwatch - http://www.quackwatch.org
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mentserv.html
Evaluate
PERFORMANCE
Evaluate
CONTENT
AutomatedSearch engines
€
Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com
example: Hypernasal Speech Samples
http://www.acpa-cpf.org/EducMeetings/speechSamples/index.htm
€
altavista
- http://www.altavista.com
example: Inner ear - http://www.brucerosemanmd.com/id53.htm
€
ask- http://www.ask.com/
example:
Comparison
chart - apraxia, dysarthria, severe
phonological
disorder - http://www.apraxia-kids.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=chKMI0PIIsE&b=788447&ct=464135
€
clusty - http://www.clusty.com
€
google
example: Greenspan's site - http://www.stanleygreenspan.com/
example: Hidden Laughter - http://www.hiddenlaughter.com/index.html
example: Relationship-Based Intervention, or Floor-Time by parent,
David Nelson - - http://www.mindspring.com/~dgn/davefaq.htm
example: Indiana Resource Center
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/SocialLeisure/playtime.html
Several important features to know about searching
€ Many engines use quotations marks, including Google
€
Define what you are looking for and choose key words carefully
€
Understand how search engine is "searching"
€
Learn Boolean searches
€
and - retrieves only item including all the
specified
terms (some use +)
€
OR - retrieves all items including any of
the
specified terms
€
not - excludes the term after it (some use -)
€
combine strategies
€
Don't just rely on the "old favorites"
€
Practice, practice, practice
€
Don't get side-tracked!
€
IMPORTANT features about Google (also in some other search engines)
.pdf
- example:
What is 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)
.ppt - example: Floor Time Stanley
Greenspan¹s Model
http://www.coping.org/intervention/ftpres/floortime.ppt
€
ppt -- Idiom game (http://www.hlschool.org/cwalkerweb/PPPARAETECH07/PowerPointParadise/PPTgame-update.ppt)
€
cache
€
full-text searching
€
* (asterisk
between words)
€
~ (tilde) for
synonyms)
€
http://translate.google.com/ - Google Translate -
€
http://images.google.com/ - Google image search
€ 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!
€
http://groups.google.com - search over 700 million
posts of newsgroups for the past 20 years!
€
http://www.google.com/products - Product search (formerly froogle)
€ http://video.google.com - http://www.aphasia.tv
€ http://blogsearch.google.com
€
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Drayna
- - http://www.genome.gov/12514288
€
http://scholar.google.com/ - Google Scholar - a specialized search
function that enables you to
search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers,
theses, books, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of
research.
€
A few additional interesting Google features
€
site:.gov
stuttering
€
site:.edu stuttering
€
link:www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/stutter.html
€
define:evidence based practice
€
related:www.asha.org
€
conversion, calculator, checking range of numbers
Specialized/Unique Search
Engines and Strategies
€ SumSearch - http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/
- a unique method of searching for
medical
evidence
€ Scirus - http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
- for scientific information
€ Healthfinder - http://healthfinder.gov
€ HONcode accredited sites - http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Hunt
€ Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu/ -
scholarly internet resource collections
€ Rhymezone - http://www.rhymezone.com/
€ FindSounds - http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
€ Podcast Directory - http://www.podcastdirectory.com
€ OneLook Dictionary - http://onelook.com
Search Engines/Directories
Especially for Kids
€ 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
€ Family Filters - on many search engines - e.g. altavista, msnsearch
€ Kids.Net.Au - http://kids.net.au -
Australian search site (directory) for kids
€ Kids and Teens Open Directory - http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/
€ Kidspace from Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
€ Teenspace Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/
€ Berit's Best Sites for Children - http://www.beritsbest.com/
Meta search engines
€
mamma - http://www.mamma.com - has a nice feature for
searching for health
information
€
dogpile -
http://www.dogpile.com
example: NeedyMeds - http://www.needymeds.com
€
excite - http://www.excite.com
example: http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/GrossAnatomy/cross_section/
€
ixquick -
http://www.ixquick.com
€
metacrawler
- http://www.metacrawler.com
€
pandia - http://pandia.com
example
- http://www.hbo.com/kinggimp/king/
Things to try if you get
an "error message"
Check the URL very carefully!
Move backwards or use a search engine - the site may be
reorganized
Check the cache in the search engines Google.com, Yahoo.com
or Gigablast.com
Check Web Archive - http://web.archive.org -
"Wayback machine"
Gigablast.com
- which actually has a link to the wayback machine as well as
an
archived (i.e. "cached") copy.
II. CONNECTING WITH COLLEAGUES
DISCUSSION FORUMS
The
following is a sampling of discussion forums relevant to speech-language
pathology and audiology. Most are open to anyone, some are closed. The forums
and addresses were current when this was printed. Be aware that forums
disappear or change locations, and new forums appear all the time, so there are
no guarentees that what is listed will remain available, or that new and better
ones haven't been formed.
Mailing
Lists - most common is "listserv"
provide
forums to discuss topics
host
computer holds subscriber email addresses
message
to the list address is relayed to all subscribers
subscription
is free
most
are "open"
Commands to remember
subscribe
review
unsubscribe
(or signoff)
Subscribing and using a listserv
Computer address - to subscribe, review, or unsubscribe
e.g.
- listserv@lsv.uky.edu
List address - to send messages to all subscribers
e.g.
stroke-l@lsv.uky.edu
Some warnings
1.
don't believe everything you read
2.
know where you are in cyberspace
3.
don't subscribe to too many
4.
use the delete key
5.
use good subject lines
SEARCHING
for Discussion Forums
€ http://www.NEW-LIST.com - keyword searchable archives
of a list announcing new lists.
€ http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html - Reference Site is a searchable catalog of nearly 60,000 public lists
Examples of mailing lists
(listservs)
A few mailing lists relevant to SLPs
APRAXIA-KIDS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU is a list parents and professionals interested
in children with apraxia. To subscribe send following message to
Listserv@Listserv.syr.edu subscribe Apraxia-kids firstname lastname
DOWN-SYN@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU is a forum for the discussion of Down
Syndrome. To subscribe, send the
message subscribe Down-syn firstname lastname to
listserv@listserv.nodak.edu
CAPD@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG is a forum about Central Auditory Processing
Disorders. To subscribe, send the subscribe capd firstname lastname to
listserv@listserv.icors.org
STROKE-L@LSV.UKY.EDU is a forum on cerebral-vascular disease for the exchange of ideas
and information among professionals, stroke survivors and their support system.
To subscribe, send the message subscribe
Stroke-L firstname lastname to listserv@lsv.uky.edu
ACOLUG@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU (Augmentative Communication On-Line Users'
Group) was created to exchange ideas, information and experiences on
augmentative communication. To subscribe send the message subscribe acolug
firstname lastname to listserv@listserv.temple.edu
SID3VOICE@LIST.MEDICINE.UIOWA.EDU.is an open mailing list for
those interested in Voice.
Subscribe by sending the following message to
lyris@list.medicine.uiowa.edu, subscribe sid3voice firstname lastname.
DYSPHAGIA@B9.COM is an open mailing list. To subscribe, follow the directions on
http://lists.b9.com/mailman/listinfo/dysphagia
STUTT-L@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU is a mailing list for consumers and
professionals interested in stuttering. To subscribe send the following message
to listserv@listserv.temple.edu, subscribe stutt-l firstname lastname
Archives
of mailing lists - must be a member to access
€
stutt-l - http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/stutt-l.html
Examples of Yahoo Groups
€ http://groups.yahoo.com - for creating independent
mailing lists. You can subscribe through a web-based subscription
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/nameofthelist or by sending the following
message to nameofthelist@yahoogroups.com nameofthelist-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Several yahoo groups are very relevant to SLPs
PHONOLOGICALTHERAPY is a list for
clinicians, including student clinicians, clinical phonology researchers and
university teachers.
CHILDDEVDELAYS offers support to
parents of children with developmental delays (speech and language, motor,
cognitive, sensory, emotional and social, etc.).
SLPTALK is designed to
provide a support network for speech-language pathologists.providing feedback
and suggestions to one another..
CHILD_LANGUAGE is a forum for both information and support intended for parents
of children with language disorders and professionals dealing with them. It
consists mostly of people from India and deals primarily with autism spectrum
disorders.
SLPSSTUTTERING is for SLPs who are interested in stuttering, want the latest
research information, would like some ideas for kids/teens on their caseload
and/or want to hang out on the list until they get a kid who stutters on their
caseload.
LATETALKERS is a list about late
talking children
LATETALKKIDS - this list supports families of late talking children who show
strong analytical skills, which can include excellent memories, puzzle solving
abilities and mechanical aptitudes. This is not a list for parents of autistic
children but instead is a subgroup of late talking children who are not
autistic.
SLPSCOMMUNICATE - a list for Speech/Language/Communication Professionals (SLPs,
SLTs, CDAs, and SLAs) from around the world discussing therapy and intervention
issues
for children and adults with developmental disabilities.
NECKBREATHERS - for adults and teens who have trachs. To exchange information
and to have fun.
STUTTERINGCHAT - Online support for
people who stutter.
CLUTTERING - online list about cluttering
STROKESURVIVORS - A place to
exchange our stories and information with others recovering from stroke, or
providing care to stroke survivors.
CLUBRETT - is for adults who
have a child with Rett Syndrome Angel in their life.
FRAGILEX - a forum for parents and family members of children who have
fragile x syndrome, to share and help eachother through.
ABINEWS2U - is to inform,
educate, and enlighten others about TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) or ABI (Acquired
Brain Injury)
BEYOND-HEARING is a support group for people with hearing loss, often partial or
acquired.
TSVOICESURGERY - a group for women and
men who have had or are considering surgery to raise (or lower) the pitch of
their voice.
YAHOOGROUPS
messages are also usually archived and available for group members to read at
the web address for the mailing
list. In fact you can subscribe to the list and not receive any email, just go
to the archive and read what you want to. Sign onto a relevant yahoogroups
and check the archives - many contain "treasures."
Creating Your Own Mailing
List
Creating your own mailing/discussion list -- http://groups.yahoo.com -- Follow the directions to
create your own mailing list (Start a New Group). It can be anything you want -
a "cousin's list," a "family list," a "high school
friends' list," a "let's exchange therapy ideas list," or
whatever you want. Invite me to join. Then you can keep or delete your list.
Web-based discussion
forums
Threaded
discussions
€ Speaking of Speech -
This Works For Me http://www.speakingofspeech.com/This_Works_For_Me_.html
€ BrainTalk Communities - http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums
€ ASHA's discussion forums - http://www.asha.org/forums
€ ISAD conferences - linked to http://www.stutteringhomepage.com
Newsgroups
- http://groups.google.com/
Blogs
Clinical
Cases - http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com
Social Networks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
€
Twitter
€ linkedin - www.linkedin.com
€
myspace - www.myspace.com
€
facebook - www.facebook.com
€
reunion.com - recently changed to
mylife.com - stay away from it!
Text/video
chat
€
Skype - www.skype.com/
Viruses, Hoaxes and Scams
€ Vmyths - http://www.vmyths.com/
€ Truth or Fiction - http://www.truthorfiction.com/
€ Snopes - http://www.snopes.com/info/search/search.asp
€ Computer Internet Advisory Site - http://www.ciac.org/ciac/
SEARCHING FOR PEOPLE ON
THE INTERNET
€ http://www.switchboard.com
- Switchboard
Like a CD-ROM telephone directory. Can search by complete name,
last name only, last name and city.
Has email search and map-making capabilities
€ http://www.anywho.com/ -
Anywho
Phone and Address. Has a map-making feature, reverse phone number
feature and links to international directories.
€ http://people.yahoo.com/ -
Yahoo's People Search
A large database of address, e-mail addresses and reverse
telephone number
€ http superpages.com://yellowpages. - SuperPages - professional address
€ http://www.whitepages.com/reverse_address
€ http://zabasearch.com -
Zaba Search
provides
birthday month and home and business address free
€ http://www.google.com - Google's finding phone
numbers
€ http://www.dogpile.com - white pages
€ http://www.fonefinder.net
- Shows
where area code and prefix is from.
€ http://www.mapquest.com - map and directions
€ http://maps.google.com - map and directions
€ http://professional.asha.org/members/
- ASHA directory
Accessible only to ASHA members. Members may search for other
members, add or remove their listing, and check and update their listing.
€ http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html - Mike Conlon's
€ http://facstaff.uww.edu/bradleys/cdprograms.html - Scott Bradley's
€ Review appropriate mailing lists
€ Examples of public records online
€ http://publicrecords.netronline.com/
-- public
records online, including property records
€ http://www.searchsystems.net - public records for various
states
€ http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp
- free
access to Public Records - over 1330 state, county, city and federal (court)
URL's
€ http://www.blackbookonline.info/- state criminal records for
many states, federal prisoners, deadbeat docs who defaulted on student loans
€ Examples of genealogy resources online
€ http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm
- Social
Security Death Index
€ http://lists.rootsweb.com/ - nearly 25,000 genealogy
mailing lists
€ http://www.familysearch.org/ - Church of Later Day Saints
site
III.
FREELY-AVAILABLE THERAPY MATERIALS ONLINE
Examples of "interactive" sites
€ 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)
€ Whomp (www.fekids.com/kln/games/whomp)
- like an online Boggle
€ Word Dice
(www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=worddice)
€ Speech
Therapy Games - from Junior's Web, a commercial site with several free
interactive examples (www.juniorsweb.com/slp/?src=overture)
€ Animal
Sounds (www.abc.net.au/children/bananas/games/animal_sounds/default.htm)
€ Who Am I -
guess animal sounds (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)
€ Interactive Audio-Picture English Lessons - (www.web-books.com)
€ Manythings Minimal Pairs listening exercise (http://www.manythings.org/pp/)
€
Build-a-Bear Interactive Activities (www.buildabear.com/play/default.aspx?pageID=games)
€ Houghton
Mifflin Spelling Match (www.eduplace.com/cgibin/schtemplate.cgi?template=/kids/hmsv/smg/smg.thtml&game_file=game_6_30&grade=6&unit=30)
€ Games from
Scholastic.com - (www.scholastic.com/kids/games.htm)
check out make your own comic about Captain Underpants (http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/comic.htm)
(check out the language first to determine if it is appropriate for your child,
and for your personal taste;-), the Magic
School Bus (www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/home.htm)
and Building Language for Literacy, (www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/home.htm).
€ Interactive
Literacy Resources - plurals, Three Little Pigs, etc. (www.crick.northants.sch.uk/pageliteracy.html)
€ Online
games, (www.realarcade.com) including
Wheel of Fortune
€
Subservient Chicken (www.subservientchicken.com)
€ Yeti, The
Abominable snowman (www.newweb.net/cgi-bin/yeti/yeticgi.pl)
- a Knowbot
€ Ozmo the
Oracle (www.cyberhaunt.com/site/fun/attractions/ozmo.html)
€ Scary
Spuds (www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html)
€ What's in
the Bag? (www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html)
€ Sorting
Games (www.mape.org.uk/activities/sorting_games/index.htm)
like a simplified 20 questions that encourages careful evaluation of a set of
similar pictures.
€ Lecky
activities and more (www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.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)
€ Chickenary (http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/chicktionary/index.htm)
€ Colors (http://www.crickweb.co.uk/colour-english.html)
and Compound words (http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=compound%20words)
€ Flood! (http://pbskids.org/lions/games/flood.html)
€ Examples
of reproducibles and activities that can be adapted for therapy
€ Animal
Concentration Cards (www.bry-backmanor.org/animalconcentration.html)
from Bry-Back Manor
€ File
Folder Games (www.preschoolprintables.com/filefolder/filefolder.shtml)
and other printables are available from Preschool Printables (www.preschoolprintables.com)
€ ABC Teach
(www.abcteach.com/) has free Printable
activity sheets and project helpers
€ The Attic
(www.bry-backmanor.org/activitypages.html)
€ Picture
Dominoes (http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/p980101a.htm)
€ Chateau
Meddybemps (www.meddybemps.com) -
young writer's workshop
€
Teach-nology's Free Language Arts Worksheets (www.myworksheets.com/language_arts/)
from Teach-nology, a subscription site with many free items
€ Printables
and Worksheets (www.atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/index.shtml).
Check the Story Starters (www.atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/Story_Starters/index.shtml)
€ Dot to Dot
(www.kidsrcrafty.com/dot-to-dot.htm)
€ Printable
word activities (http://pbskids.org/lions/printables/)
€ 400 free
printable worksheets (choose "early English") (http://preschoollearners.com/)
€ Kizclub (www.kizclub.com) has a variety of activities
and printables.
€ Speech Guy
(www.therasimplicity.com)
€ DLTK's
Printable Crafts For Kids Books, crafts, sequencing activities and a lot more!
including "Sponge Bob." (www.dltk-kids.com)
€ Three Little Pigs felt board - (http://www.preschoolprintables.com/felt/3pigs/feltpigc2.shtml)
Additional
felt board items (http://www.preschoolprintables.com/felt/felt.shtml)
€ StarFall - (http://www.starfall.com/n/N-info/abcprint.htm?n=abc)
€ Paper Dolls - http://www.makingfriends.com/
€ Examples
of books, stories, magazines, podcasts, and movies that can provide materials
for therapy
€ Magazines
€ Time for
Kids (www.timeforkids.com/TFK/)
€ American
Girl Magazine (www.americangirl.com/)
€ Sports
Illustrated for Kids (www.sikids.com/index.html)
€ Examples
of short articles/stories and books that could be used for a variety of therapy
activities
€ MysteryNet.com
has short mystery stories for adults (www.mysterynet.com)
and also several Kids' Mysteries (http://kids.mysterynet.com),
including a contest for kids to submit mysteries.
€ Legends,
Heroes, Freedom Fighters (www.4to40.com/legends)
€ Aesop's
Fables - (www.umass.edu/aesop)
nicely illustrated.
€ Reading A
to Z (http://readinga-z.com) is a subscription
site, but also has many free downloadable books.
€ Stories
from PBS Kids (http://pbskids.org/lions/stories.html).
€ Billy Bears
Story Books - mostly PC downloads, but several online options that are cross
platform (www.billybear4kids.com/story/books.htm).
€ Electronic
books - read-along or listen to
€ Storyline
Online - famous actors read children's stories (www.storylineonline.net/)
€ Many
Stories from the British Council. (www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories.htm?mtklink=kids-stories-kids-popular-offers)
part of LearnEnglishKids (www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm)
include ABC Zoo (www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-abc-zoo.htm
€ Kizclub
books (www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html)
€ Clifford's
Interactive Storybooks (http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1)
with lots of additional activities.
€ 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/SoundStoryBlog.htm)
Free audio from Candlelight stories.
€ Gutenberg
project audio books (www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1)
€ Short
podcasts
€ Children's
Story Podcast (http://storynory.com/) -
free audio story every week
€ One Minute
How-To podcast (http://oneminutehowto.com/)
€ Breaking
News English - Current, ready-to-use EFL/ESL Lesson Plans & Podcast (www.breakingnewsenglish.com/) - script
included.
€ Science
Update (www.scienceupdate.com) -
one minute pod casts
€ Movie
Trailers and Vlogs
€ Clips from
movies especially interesting to kids (http://kids.yahoo.com/movies/dvd/dvdcomingsoon)
€ Sesame
Street videos - even several of Kermit as well as being able to see Mr. Hooper
and Gordon again (http://video.sesameworkshop.org)
€ Movie List
(www.movie-list.com) and Quicktime movie
trailers (www.apple.com/trailers)
have movie trailers for stimulating conversation.
Examples of actual Clinical
Materials/Ideas on the Internet
Language
€ Diagnosis of language
disorders
€ The Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI) (www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/enni/)
is norm-referenced narrative assessment instrument for collecting language
information from children aged 4 to 9 through storytelling, by Phyllis
Schneider, Rita Vis DubÁZÁZ, and Denyse Hayward. Contains several stories
without words. Norms from a sample of 377 children are included for a number of
analyses, including story information, referring expressions, and standard
language analyses such as number of different words, Mean Length of
Communication Unit, and Subordination Index.
€ Checklists
and Forms (www.speechpathology.com/schoolBased/checklists.asp)
- many language teacher checklists such as "Things I know and can
do."
€ General
Language Sites
€ 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)
€ Word/language games (www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html)
- created on QUIA by Tracy Gefroh Boyd
€ Sequencing
games (www.quia.com/pages/sequencingfun.html)
- created on QUIA by Tracy Gefroh Boyd
€ MES
English - free printables for teachers of young learners. (www.mes-english.com)
€ Figurative
language
€ Figurative Language - (www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/343/27/)
contains links to many activities about the various types of figurative
language.
€ Cambridge Dictionary of Idioms (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/idiomswksheets.pdf)
for adults
€ Paint by Idioms (www.funbrain.com/idioms/index.html)
€ Working
on vocabulary
€ Language Guide (http://www.languageguide.org/english/)
including "The Body" (http://www.languageguide.org/im/body/eng/)
€ One Cut
Book (www.funlessonplans.com/reading_lesson_plans/buddies.pdf)
- PDF file with instructions how to make a one-cut book.
€ Patrick Ecker's Mini-Books for Language (http://www.patrickecker.org/minibooks.htm)
€ Free Rice (www.freerice.com/index.php)
€ World of
Words vocabulary games by Lonn Swanson (www.quia.com/pages/worldowords.html)
€ Online
version of Twenty Questions - (http://www.20q.net/)
€ Vocabulary
University (www.vocabulary.com/) has
many activities such as Fill-in-the-Blanks, Definition Matching, Synonym &
Antonym Encounter, Word Find and Crossword for older children and adults.
€ Crossword
Puzzles for ESL at different difficulty levels (http://iteslj.org/cw/)
€ Crickler (www.crickler.com/crickler.html)
- a new type of crossword puzzle that gears itself to your level.
€ Various
printables (www.speakingofspeech.com/Materials_Exchange.html)
from Materials Exchange.
€ Rootonym (www.uclick.com/client/mma/tmroo/)
€ Quia's
Online Autumn Hangman (www.quia.com/hm/1726.html)
- an easy version, available in "Flash" or "html" version.
€ Working
on Morphology/Syntax
€ Online English Verb Conjugation Trainer (www.verbs-online.com/english-verbs/english-verbs.htm)
€ Mark's
English School (www.marks-english-school.com/games.html)
€ Grammar
Crackers games/activities by Lonn Swanson (www.quia.com/pages/grammarcrackers.html)
€ Funbrain (www.funbrain.com) - educational activities for
kids including grammar gorillas and what's the word, sign the alphabet
€ Whacky Web
Tales (www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html)
- good for working on parts of speech
€ Kizclub activities
(www.kizclub.com)
€ Big Dog's
Grammar (http://aliscot.com/bigdog/)
€ OWL Online
Writing Lab from Purdue Univeristy (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html)
€ Webster
Comnet Guide to Grammar and Writing (http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/)
is an information treasure. Includes Royal order of adjectives (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm)
€ Other
Language Materials - primarily designed for Teaching English as a Second
Language, but easily adapted for children with language-learning disorders and
adults who are re-learning language following a stroke.
€ What American Accent Do You Have? (www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have)
€
Interesting Things for ESL Students (www.manythings.org)
€ Aardvark's
English-Forum.Com (www.englishforum.com/00/)
contains tons of materials, including Interactive English Language exercises
for vocabulary, grammar, idioms. (www.englishforum.com/00/interactive)
€ ESL
Resource Center (www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm)
€ Speech
Accent Archive (http://accent.gmu.edu)
examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language
backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph.
€
Lanternfish (http://bogglesworldesl.com/)
€ Paul
Brian's Common Errors in English (www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html)
has a helpful list with explanation for second language learners and
higher-functioning language activities.
Speech Sound Disorders
€ QUIA (www.quia.com/topics.html)
- check especially early learning and speech - is now subscription-based for a
fee. But some treasures can still be accessed without "joining."
€
Articulation games (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. (www.quia.com/pages/pbordashome.html)
€
Various materials (www.speakingofspeech.com/generic.html?pid=26)
from Materials Exchange
€ A
Collection of Approaches to the "R" Sound (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/rtherapy.html)
€ The
Sounds of English and Spanish - from the University of Iowa (www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/)
€
Minimal pairs - vowels and consonants (http://pages.britishlibrary.net/marlodge/wordlist/index.html)
by John Higgins
€
Various worksheets and printables from edHelper.com (www.edHelper.com) - a subscription site with
freely-available samples
€ Articulation one-cut books - http://www.speechtx.com/articulation.htm
- articulation one-cut books
e.g.
http://www.speechtx.com/articulation/pdf/r_words_QP.pdf
€ Caroline Bowen's amazing gifts - (http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txresources.html)
A few examples of using these materials to work on literacy goals
€ Environmental
Print Awareness
€ Focus on print symbols
€ Use logos
and signs of fast food restaurants, street signs, movie theater signs, logos on
cereal boxes, toys
€ Reading
signs (www.manythings.org/signs/)
€ Street
Signs USA (www.usa-traffic-signs.com/)
and Manual of traffic signs (www.trafficsign.us/)
€ Include
written words on picture stimuli.
€ Caroline
Bowen provides minimal pairs pictures and consonant words and picture
worksheets in Therapy Resources For SLPs (www.speech-language-therapy.com/txresources.html)
€ Use printed words as cues
€ Primary
Games (www.primarygames.com/index.html)
- includes "word lab"
€ CVC Maker (www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html)
and many other interactive literacy activities at different skill levels
€ Use print
stimuli for phrase and sentence activities
€ Goldilocks
Sequencing (www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/contents.htm)
and other downloads from TeachingIdeas
€ Alphabetic/Letter
Knowledge
€ Eight
colorful alphabet books (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html#Alphabet)
€ Alphabet
Action from Learning Planet (www.learningplanet.com/act/fl/aact/index.asp)
€ Alphabet
Animation (www.toytheater.com/action-alphabet.php)
€ Alphabet
flash cards (www.beginningreading.com/Alphabet%20Flashcards.htm)
€ GameGoo (www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey.html)
provides many interactive activities at different difficulty levels. Check
Alien Scavenger Hunt for a spelling/phoneme awareness activity.
€ Animated ABC
book (www.magickeys.com/books/alphabet/index.html)
by Rolando Merino - cute!
€ Weewebbies
ABC's (www.weewebbies.com/htmls/web32100.htm)
€ Alphabet
Coloring Book (www.alphabet-soup.net/dir6/alphacolor.html)
€
Free-reading.net (http://free-reading.net) -
excellent alphabet flashcards
€ StarFall's ABC's - (http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f)
€ Rhymes,
alliteration, finger play
€ Nursery
rhymes
€ The Real
Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright, beautiful PDF of this entire classic (www.gutenberg.org/etext/10607)
€ 48 Mother
Goose and nursery rhyme pages to print out and color (www.niteowl.org/kids/index.html)
€ Rhyme pages
(www.EnchantedLearning.com/Rhymes.html)
from Enchanted Learning has Word families in nursery rhymes (www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/wordfamilies/),
Rebus rhymes (www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html)
and a Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Coloring Book (www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/books/rhymesbook/)
€ Our
Favorite Nursery rhymes (www.snaithprimary.eril.net/rindex.htm)
includes music and some pictures to color.
€ Children's
Songs - lyrics and midi format (www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm)
€ Nursery
Rhymes - midi format (www.nursery-rhymes.info)
€ Magnetic
Poetry - like refrigerator magnets (www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm).
€ Word Family
Sort (www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordfamily/)
€ Rhyme a
Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy - colorful pictures, activities, free
materials (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm)
€
Alliteration
€ Tongue
Twister Database (www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html)
€ Finger
Plays
€ Preschool
Fingerplays, Action Poems, Nursery Rhymes and Songs (www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-rhymes.htm)
€ Sense
of Story
€
Predictable stories/activities with repeated lines.
€ A
bibiliography of Books with Repeated Lines (www.aacintervention.com/repeatl.htm)
€ Little Red
Hen
€
RedHen.jpeg from http://gallery.bcentral.com
€ large
RedHen.gif from www.thefeltsource.com
€ RedHen.gif
from www.haynesmarionettes.com
€ Add a copy
of the free Little Red Hen book (www.gutenberg.org/etext/18735)
€ But That
Wasn't the Best Part (www.meddybemps.com/8.1.html)
€ 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)
€ The Animals of Farmer Jones (http://www.antiquebooks.net/readpage.html#golden)
€ Brown Bear
(www.dltk-teach.com/books/brownbear/index.htm)
(Ideas for Using Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do you See (www.eric-carle.com/bb-bb.html)
and a Brown Bear PowerPoint (www.supporting-ict.co.uk/useful/brownbear.ppt)
€ Gingerbread
Man - (http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/gingerbread-man/index.htm)
€ Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/storytimeonline/alexander.html)
€ Learning
Colors (www.liveandlearn.com/cgame/colors.html)
€ Are you
ready to learn colors? (www.dotolearn.com/games/whatcolor/pages/index.html)
€ Familiar
Stories and Tales
€ Kid Space:
The Internet Public Library - Mother Goose reads stories (http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/goose/)
€ The
Fisherman and his Wife (www.ipl.org.ar/youth/StoryHour/Fisherman/fish.html)
from the Internet Public Library's Story Hour (www.ipl.org.ar/youth/StoryHour)
€ Targeted
phonemes such as
€ Tongue
Twisters loaded with specific sounds (www.weblators.com/speakeasy/twister.htm)
€ Fox and
Frog Read-aloud book (www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/aloud/foxandfrog.html)
€ Bears and
Beans (www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/aloud/bearsandbeans.html)
€ Alliterated
Prodigal Son - or The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive (http://english-zone.com/language/ffff.html)
€ Additional
ideas
€ Story Map
from Scholastic (http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2994)
€ Printable
Booklets for emergent readers (www.hubbardscupboard.org/printable_booklets.html#WordFamilyBooklets)
€
The following excellent web sites provide many additional literacy activities:
€ Preschool
Library Story Place (www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp)
€ Reading
Workshop contains wonderful materials created by elementary school teacher at
Palma Sola Elemenatry School (www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/resources/rcompindex.htm)
€ Literacy
Center Education Network's pre and early reading curriculum (www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm)
provides over a million free lessons following a "Modified Montessori
approach to teaching reading." The Parent and Teacher section is divided
into subject areas where lessons can be chosen for specific purposes.
€ StarFall (http://starfall.com) was created "to meet
the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and
high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics,
decoding skills, and comprehension." The materials are designed for first
grade, but are also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.
Features include interactive books, activities, movies, and worksheets.
€ Webbing
Into Literacy (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html)
packed with colorful materials and ideas originally designed for rural Head
Start teachers features a developmentally appropriate approach to literacy
instruction. Contains materials and lesson plans to accompany favorite
children's books and Alphabet Books - (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html#Alphabet)
Aphasia/TBI
€ The
Multimodal Communication Screening Task for Persons with Aphasia (MCST-A)
Picture Stimulus Book by A Kathryn L. Garrett, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Joanne Lasker,
Ph.D., CCC-SLP (http://aac.unl.edu/screen/picture.pdf)
and The Multimodal Communication Screening Task for Persons with Aphasia
(MCST-A) score sheet and instructions by A Kathryn L. Garrett, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Joanne Lasker, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (http://aac.unl.edu/screen/score.pdf)
€
Stroke Caregivers Handbook (www.strokesafe.org/Handbook.html)
€
Subscribe to Stroke Connection - FREE (www.strokeassociation.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=2541)
€
Medical cards in English and Spanish (www.aphasianyc.org/anyc/Info.htm)
€
Conversation boards for favorite snacks and drinks, from TinSnips (a site for
people with autism) (www.tinsnips.org/Pages/makeandtake.html)
€
Supporting People with Aphasia - (www.aphasia.asn.au/aphasiafriendly/macos/welcome.htm)
a website designed for people with Aphasia, includes personal stories and a
newsletter.
€
Vocabulary activities with audio files (www.eslgold.net)
€
Interesting Things for ESL Students is filled with vocabulary activities and
much more (www.manythings.org)
€ Jokes
- listen and retell (www.manythings.org/jokes/)
€ Match
vegetable with the name (www.crickweb.co.uk/vegetable-english.html)
- has other similar activities.
€
On-line puzzles (www.jigzone.com) - use to
increase concentration abilities
€ More
online puzzles (http://thinks.com/daily_jigsaw_puzzle.htm)
€
Weekly Reader Teens has online activities that require concentration. (www.weeklyreader.com/teens)
€ Sudoko
Puzzles Free Online Daily (www.sudoko.us/)
€ I M
Brainy (www.biausa.org/Pages/biam2003/imbrainy.html)
from the Brain Injury Association has a variety of resources available for
adults and children on prevention in English and Spanish.
€ Word
finding/Memory materials
€ Sing-Along
Songs (http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/music.htm)
midis and lyrics includes a Name that tune activities (http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/nametune3.htm).
€ Popular
Songs (www.contemplator.com/america/)
and Tunes in American History (www.contemplator.com/tunebook/america.htm)
€ Smartini
Memory Game (http://pbskids.org/lions/printables/games/memory_arty.html)
€ Flibriks
Memory game (http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/christmas/games/game_santa_flibriks.html)
€ Visual
Memory from Toy Theater (www.toytheater.com/visual-memory.php)
€ Livewire
puzzles (www.puzzles.ca/freefun.html)
€ Free
printable word search puzzles (www.puzzles.ca/wordsearch.html)
€ Do-It
Yourself Puzzles (www.puzzles.ca/diy_puzzles.html)
Motor Speech
Disorders/Augmented/Alternative Communication
€ Dysarthria/apraxia
screening tool (www.appstate.edu/~clarkhm/neuropages/screeningprotocol.htm)
€
Comparison chart - apraxia, dysarthria, severe phonological disorder (www.apraxia-kids.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=chKMI0PIIsE&b=788447&ct=464135)
€ BUILLD (Bringing Unity into Language
and Learning Development) Curriculum Guide developed to teach the Unity servies
and enhance language development (www.prentrom.com/images/teaching/builld.pdf).
Also check the Teaching ideas for all age levels (www.prentrom.com/teaching_ideas/teaching_ideas_information/teaching_ideas_information)
€
Communication aids for public libraries (www.scopevic.org.au/therapy_crc_lfa.html)
- alphabet, word, and picture boards
€ AAC
Messaging and Vocabulary - word lists (http://aac.unl.edu/vocabulary.html)
including list for ALS patients (http://aac.unl.edu/ALS_Message_List1.htm)
€ 100
most used words from interview with AAC user (http://homepage.mac.com/terryjohnmick/jafw/html/lang/vocab/100_baker.htm)
€
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Connecting Young Kids (YAACK
Home Page) (http://aac.unl.edu/yaack/)
or YAACK (http://home.hawaii.rr.com/wenlu/yaack/toc.html)
€
Intellitools Activity Exchange (http://aex.intellitools.com/)
- contains hundreds of activities for use with IntelliKeys using Overlay Maker,
IntelliTalk, IntelliPics and/or ClickIt! Works on MAC or PC. You don't need to
own IntelliTools software to use activities from the Exchange.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
€
Symbol World (www.symbolworld.org/index.htm)
- a monthly magazine, stories, recipes, etc. for symbol readers
€
"Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)" Quest to help kids learn about
autism (www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/kids/kautismpage.htm)
€
Facial Expressions (www.dotolearn.com/games/facialexpressions/index.htm)
from DoToLearn. Also has picture cards and additional learning games (www.dotolearn.com/games/learningames.htm),
including The Feelings Game (www.dotolearn.com/games/feelingsgame/index.htm)
€
Expression cards (www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/40/Prosopagnosia.xhtml)
from SEN Teacher free printables (www.senteacher.org/Print/)
€ Make
Beliefs Comix (www.makebeliefscomix.com/)
€
Beyond Autism Pecs Pictures and Icons (http://trainland.tripod.com/pecs.htm)
€
Picture Recipes (www.bry-backmanor.org/picturerecipes.html)
from Bry-Back Manor (www.bry-backmanor.org/)
€
Social Stories (www.polyxo.com/socialstories)
- Teaching Children with Autism.
€
Anatomy of A Conversation: Social Scripts Suggested Conversational Messages (www.lburkhart.com/chat_ideas.htm)
by Linda J. Burkhart and Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite
€
Social Stories written by the staff of the Flemington-Raritan Autism Program. (www.frsd.k12.nj.us/autistic/Social%20Stories/social_stories.htm)
€ ABA
Educational Resources (www.abaresources.com)
provides many free downloads including Thematic Token Economy Boards
€ Tin
Snips (www.tinsnips.org) - a special education
resource that includes worksheets and activities for students with autistic
spectrum disorders
€
Widgit Resources (www.widgit.com/resources/index.htm)
- symbol-supported learning materials and symbol stories
€
Children with Special Needs (www.childrenwithspecialneeds.com/)
contains a treasure chest of pecs materials, including Picture symbol
downloads, McDonald's menus, action pictures and MORE. You need to register to
access them, but registration is free.
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)
€ Wise
Ears - a national campaign to prevent noise-induced hearing loss from NIDCD (www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/wise/index.asp)
€
Speech and Auditory Training Activities (www.deafed.net/PublishedDocs/sub/980122w.htm).
€
Fingerspelling (http://web.archive.org/web/20041130085404/http://where.com/scott.net/asl/)
€
Funbrain (www.funbrain.com) - sign the alphabet
€ ASL
Browser (http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm)
€ The
Described and Captioned Media Program (CMP) - a free-loan, open-captioned media
collection of over 4,000 titles (videos, including some that are streamed and
available online, CD-ROM, and DVD) available to hearing impaired, their
parents, or those who work with them) are video streamed lessons in ASL and
speech reading. (www.dcmp.org)
€
Speech Reading In Context: A Guide for Practice in Everyday Settings (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/Sharing-Ideas/speech/index.html)
from Gallaudet University Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center,
contains lesson plans and activities.
€ 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/)
€ Signwriting Children's Stories (www.signwriting.org/library/children/)
has several children's stories (including the Cat in the Hat) and poems in
sign.
€
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)
€
Interactive Audio-Picture English Lessons (http://www.web-books.com/Language/Inter0/English_Main.htm)
€ 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/)
Voice/VPI materials
€ Lippy
the Lion - a traveling educational tool (www.widesmiles.org/lippy/)
€ The
Story of Thumper, the Cleft-affected Bunny (www.widesmiles.org/Kids_Lit/thumper)
by Joanne Green
€
Anthony Visits His Cleft Palate Team (www.widesmiles.org/Kids_Lit/anthonytm/)
by Joanne Green
€
Welcome to our clinic - an activity and coloring book to help your child
prepare for their visit to the Velopharyngeal Dysfunction Clinic at Cincinnati
Children's (www.cincinnatichildrens.org/assets/0/78/1067/4663/4671/0c2dc137-2102-4ab7-9917-6399d1375a05.pdf)
€ Voice
therapy techniques, (http://web.archive.org/web/20031204003041/http://www.unc.edu/~chooper/classes/voice/webtherapy/index.html)
a collection by Cecilia Hooper
€ John
Riski's Assessing VPI (www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=764)
€
Speech therapy to improve hypernasality (www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=761)
by John Riski
€
Resources for Children and Adolescents about smoking (www.cdc.gov/tobacco/youth/index.htm).
€ You
Don't Always Die From Tobacco (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3537446925613316926&ei=Uq3dSNDwDIL8rALJtainCw&q=you+don%27t+always+die+from+tobacco&vt=lf&hl=en).
€ Vocal
Abuse Checklist for Children and Ideas to eliminate vocal abuse (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://speech.jppss.k12.la.us/Vocal%20Abuse%20Checklist%20For%20Children.doc)
€ The
Voice Academy (www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/index.html)
presents strategies relating to vocal health for teachers and contains a
fully-scripted, 50 minute in-service curriculum (www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/slp.html)
that SLPs can use to introduce teachers to this resource.
Fluency/Stuttering
€
Stuttering Home Page (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/stutter.html)
€ Woody
Starkweather, et. al. Stuttering Prevention: A Manual for Parents (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/Parents/starkweather.html)
€
Online stop watch (http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/stopwatch)
€
Parent-Clinician Fluency Assessment (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/gjohnson/parentsknowbest.html)
by Janice Westbrook is designed to be used in three meetings with parents of
children who stutter.
€
Teacher Checklist for Fluency (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/checklist.html)
designed by Nina Reardon-Reeves
€
Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teachers -SFA video and book (http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=519)
€
Spanish Phrasing for SLPS by Dorothy Miranda Esckelson and Adulfa Aguirre
Morales (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/spanish.html)
€
Treating the School-Age Stutterer focusing on twelve components of stuttering
intervention. by Peter Ramig, et. al. (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/components/treatschoolage.html)
Also available in PDF format (http://www.stutteringrecovery.com/childinterv.PDF)
€
Clinical Nuggets )
€ Just
for Kids (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/kids.html)
€
Several articles written for the International Stuttering Awareness Day online
conferences provide specific therapy ideas and suggestions. (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/isadarchive/onlineconference.html)
€ John
Ahlbach, a high school teacher who stutters, has written a Stuttering
Presentation Guide (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/ahlbachguide.html)
or in PDF format (http://www.friendswhostutter.org/pdfs/FRIENDS_Stuttering_Presentation_Guide.pdf)
to help young people who stutter with ideas for class presentations.
€
Stuttering awareness game (http://www.quia.com/cb/2807.html)
- created on QUIA by Tammy Bryant-McMillin uses facts, myths, etc. about
stuttering
€
Sometimes I Just Stutter (www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=209)
by Eelco de Geus
€
Stuttering: For Kids, By Kids (http://www.stutteringhelp.org/default.aspx?tabindex=486&tabid=496)
€ Peter
Ramig, To The Parents Of The Nonfluent Child (http://stutteringrecovery.com/parent.html)
also available at (here)
€ Translations
of Two Stuttering Foundation Brochures - information for people from other
cultures (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad10/papers/translation10/translation10.html)
€
Working on Speech Rate Program (http://www.speechrate.com)
by Joe Kalinowski et.al.
€
Fluency Yahtzee: A Game of Choice by Ellen Bennett (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/bennett9.html)
€ David
Daly's Cluttering Inventory-R (2006) (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad10/papers/daly10/dalycluttering2006R.pdf)
€
Computer Aided Assessment of Cluttering Severity by Klaas Bakker, Florence
Myers, Larry Raphael, and Kenneth St. Louis (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/bakker8/bakker8.html)
General collections
€
Targets and Activities Project (www.commtap.org/index.html)
€
Carol's Speech and Language Disorders Idea Exchange (www.angelfire.com/nj/speechlanguage/index.html)
by Carol Casserly
€ Old
Geezer's Speech Therapy Tool Box (http://home.kcbx.net/~halwilson/Geezer/index.htm)
by Hal Wilson has some lesson plans and a therapy idea exchange
€
Speech Therapy Activities (www.speechtx.com/)
by Jennifer Mitchell
€
Freida van Staden's Page (http://members.tripod.com/Freida_vanStaden/SLPresources.htm)
€ Speech Teach UK Downloads (www.speechteach.co.uk/p_general/downloads.htm)
€
Collection of Therapy Ideas from Communication Connects (www.communicationconnects.com/therapist_techniques.asp)
€ This
Works for Me from Speaking of Speech.com (www.speakingofspeech.com/This_Works_For_Me_.html)
- an interactive forum for speech/language pathologists to exchange ideas,
information and resources, from Pat Mervine.
€ Teach
the Children Well - amazing collection of links (www.teachthechildrenwell.com/)
€
Internet4Claasrooms (http://www.internet4classrooms.com/index.htm)
totally amazing site you will get lost in for hours!
Commercial Companies
Check
the web sites of your favorite commercial companies that often have sample
products available free. For example:
€
Linguisystems (www.linguisystems.com)
€ age
calculator (www.agsnet.com/calc/) from
Pearson Education may be helpful in diagnostic evaluation scoring.
€ Caseload
Calculator from Pearson Education (www.speechandlanguage.com/caseload/caseload_calc2.asp)
€ Caseload
worksheet from Pearson Education (www.speechandlanguage.com/caseload/caseloadworksheet.pdf)
€
Kinderprintables (www.kinderprintables.com/)
€ Parrot (www.parrotsoftware.com/) can be used to
supplement treatment and with the help a SLP, can outline a plan for using the
software after medical benefits are gone. There is a free demo online.
Examples of Freeware/Shareware
(Software) on the Internet
€ Study
Dog (www.famlit.org/studydog)
WAS a free, interactive computer-based reading development program,
"designed as a supplemental reading program for children from Pre-K to 2nd
Grade, StudyDog can help a child master the core reading skills if the child is
ready to learn to read or is behind in reading at school." It is now
available for purchase ($34.95-49.95). However is is still FREE for low-income
families. There are three levels (Pre-K through K; K through 1 and grades 1
through 2. The software program features
€
Bungalow Software (www.BungalowSoftware.com/downloadfiles.htm)
has free trial versions of several programs for adults with neurogenic
disorders (currently only for PC)
€
Totware - Benjamin's Favorites (www.het.brown.edu/people/mende/totware.html)
- for both MAC and PC users.
€
Educational Freeware (www.educational=freeware.com)
Examples of Templates and Generators to
make your own therapy materials
€ Generators
€ The
Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker (www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/)
can quickly produce an activity for word recall, vocabulary development, or articulation
practice.
€
Puzzlemaker (http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/)
allows kids to make crossword puzzles online
€ Custom
Awards and Certificates from DLTK (www.dltk-cards.com/award/)
€ Bingo
Generator - custom make Bingo cards of 8, 16 or 24 images with a variety of
themes to choose from. (www.dltk-cards.com/bingo/bingo1.asp)
€
Concentration/Memory cards from DLTK (www.dltk-cards.com/memory/index.htm)
€ Custom
Dominoes from DLTK (www.dltk-cards.com/dominos/index.htm)
€ Story
builder (www.literacyaccessonline.com/Literacy/BuildStory/index.asp)
€ Story
Maker (www.britishcouncil.org/kids-writing-storymaker.htm)
€
Story-Making Machine (http://communicationconnects.com/stories.asp)
has simple stories and poems that can have specific target sounds highlighted.
Are both pre-written stories submitted by children and a write-your-own-story
option.
€ Create
Your Scenario - a generator for creating a play (www.kids-space.org/HPT/1a/11a.html)
€ Garfield's
Comic Creator (www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/missionz/comic.htm)
€ A Web
Quest generator (http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/)
provides an activity "to engage students in inquiry based learning. A web
quest is meant to guide students through a process of inquiry through a set of
assigned tasks that lead them to a conclusion, or that results in a
product."
€ 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 adapts The Science Jeopardy (http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/games/)
created by Norman Herr from Sourcebook for Teaching Science site (http://www.csun.edu/science/)
€ Stuttering
Jeopardy example (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/stutteringjeopardy.ppt)
€ Jeopardy
template to adapt (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/jeopardytemplate.ppt)
€ My Story
template (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/mystory.ppt)
€ Colt's
Story (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/colt.ppt)
€ Templates
for Homemade PowerPoint Games (http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/pptgames/templates.html)
from the World Wide Interactive Learning Design Team (WWILD). WWILD invites
teachers and students t
€ Adapt or
customize any PPT game in the WWILD Team database (http://projects.coe.uga.edu/lrieber/wwild/search/PPT-search-results.asp).
The database already includes an activity for practicing the signed alphabet (http://it.coe.uga.edu/~lrieber/pptgames/sign.ppt).
€ Many PowerPoint
activities from the Jefferson County School District that can be used or
adapted (http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-la.html).
€ My Story:
A PowerPoint Teaching Tool (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/games9.html)
by Diane Games, used to facilitate discussion with children and teens who
stutter on concepts important in treatment provides three examples and a
template
€ Template
to make a book (http://priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/book.htm)
(download (http://priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/cgi-bin/download.pl?file=booktemplate.zip)
Dealing with teasing
€
PowerPoint Templates - (http://powerbacks.com/)
use to help students create power point presentations to learn about their
speech disorder and to educate their classmates
€ Its
My Life (http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/parents/lesson_plans/bullies_classroom_community.html)
- lesson plans for dealing with bullying.
€ Don't
Laugh at Me (http://www.dontlaugh.org/)
many, many more sites for therapy materialsare
"hotlinked" at http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html
Copyright - Judith Maginnis Kuster
March 19, 2009