Internet Gold for Speech-Language Professionals

Judith Maginnis Kuster - ASHA 2006

A few examples of professionally-relevant resources to find client information

• ASHA - http://professional.asha.org

• Brain Injury Association- http://www.biausa.org/Pages/home.html

• Autism Society of America - http://www.autism-society.org

• American Stroke Association - http://www.strokeassociation.org

• NIDCD - http://www.nidcd.nih.gov

• Family Village - http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu

• National Association for Rare Diseases (NORD) - http://www.rarediseases.org

• Internet Public Library (IPL) - http://www.ipl.org

Evidenced-based/peer-reviewed information

• Cochrane Library - http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/clibintro.htm

• Center for Reviews and Dissemination - http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/crddatabases.htm

• Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) - http://www.ancds.org

• What Works Clearinghouse - http://w-w-c.org

• Campbell Collaboration - http://www.campbellcollaboration.org

• Evidence-Based Practice Briefs - http://www.speechandlanguage.com/ebp/inex.asp

• NOM's Efficacy Bibliography - http://www.asha.org/members/research/NOMS2/Efficacy-Treatment-Bibliographies.htm

• Speech-Language Evidence Based Research - http://www.utdallas.edu/library/callier/SLPEBM.htm

• ERIC database - http://www.eric.ed.gov/

• PubMed - http://clinical.uthscsa.edu/pubmed/

• ASHA Journals - 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

• ASHA Conference Papers - http://search.asha.org/?col=conv&ql=a

A few examples of professional learning (continuing education) online

• Clinical Decision Making with Linguistically Diverse Learners - http://www.clinicaldecision.umn.edu

• Autism 101 - http://www.autism-society.org/

• Genetics in the Practice of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology - http://shla.nchpeg.org

• International Stuttering Awareness Day online conference - http://www.stutteringhomepage.com

• Audiology Online - http://www.audiologyonline.com

• Prentke-Romich - http://www.prentom.com/training/asha

• Linguisystem - http://www.linguisystem.com/ceu_intro.php

Subject Guides

• Caroline Bowen's ComDis Home Page - http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/home.html

• Ron Kuppersmith's Otolaryngology Resources on the Internet - http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/oto/others.html

• Eric H. Chudler's Neurological Disorder Resources - http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/disorders.html

• Judith Kuster's Net Connections to Communication Disorders - http://www.communicationdisorders.com

Search Engines: Google

http://www.google.com http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

http://images.google.con http://maps.google.com http://groups.google.com http://news.google.com http://froogle.com/ http://video.google.com http://usgov.google.com http://books.google.com http://scholar.google.com

KUSTER'S EXAMPLES OF MATERIALS THAT CAN BE ADAPTED FOR THERAPY - http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html

Examples of "interactive" sites

•Magnetic Poetry - (www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm)

•Whomp! - (http://fun.familyeducation.com/entertainment/child-online-games/28867)

•Animal Sounds (www.abc.net.au/children/bananas/games/animal_sounds/default.htm)

•Build-a-Bear Interactive Activities (www.buildabear.com/play/default.aspx?pageID=games)

•Dress Up activities - (www.dressupgames.com/index.html)

•Primary Games - (www.primarygames.com/index.html)

•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.com - (www.scholastic.com/kids/games.htm)

•Building Language for Literacy - (www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/home.htm)

•Interactive Literacy Resources - http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/pageliteracy.html

•Wheel of Fortune - (www.realarcade.com)

Examples of reproducibles and activities that can be adapted for therapy

•Scholastic, Inc.'s In School page (www.scholastic.com/inschool )

•Animal Concentration Cards (www.bry-backmanor.org/animalconcentration.html )

•File Folder Games - (www.preschoolprintables.com/filefolder/filefolder.shtml )

•ABC Teach (http://abcteach.com/ )

•Chateau Meddybemps (www.meddybemps.com)

•Picture Dictionary (www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html)

•Rhyme pages (www.EnchantedLearning.com/Rhymes.html)

•Teach-nology (www.myworksheets.com/language_arts/ )

•Story Starters (http://atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/Story_Starters/index.shtml )

•Nursery Rhyme Pictures - (www.niteowl.org/kids/index.html )

•DLTK's Printable Crafts For Kids - (www.dltk-kids.com )

Examples of books, stories, newspapers, magazines, and movies that can provide materials for therapy

•Time for Kids (www.pathfinder.com/TFK/ )

•American Girl Magazine (www.americangirl.com/ )

•Sports Illustrated for Kids (www.sikids.com/index.html )

•BookPop Virtual Library (www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html )

•Clifford's Interactive Storybooks (http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1 )

•Online Children's Stories (www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html )

•The Internet Public Library - Mother Goose (www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/goose/ ) and

The Fisherman and his Wife (www.ipl.org.ar/youth/StoryHour/Fisherman/fish.html )

•Little Red Riding Hood cards (www.daycareresource.com/sequencecardslittleredridinghood.html )

•Legends, Heroes, Freedom Fighters (www.4to40.com/legends )

•Aesop's Fables - (www.umass.edu/aesop )

•Reading A to Z (http://readinga-z.com )

•Stories from PBS Kids (http://pbskids.org/lions/stories.html ).

•Billy Bears Story Books - (www.billybear4kids.com/story/books.htm ).

•Kizclub books (www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html )

•Webbing Into Literacy: A Head Start Program (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html )

•Rhyme a Week (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm )

•The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (www.gutenberg.org/etext/10607 )

•Movie Trailers - (http://movie-list.com )

Examples of actual Clinical Materials/Ideas on the Internet

General Language Sites

•StarFall - (http://starfall.com )

•Sequencing games (www.quia.com/pages/sequencingfun.html )

Working on vocabulary

•World of Words - (www.quia.com/pages/worldowords.html )

•Twenty Questions - (http://come.to/20Q )

•Vocabulary.com (www.vocabulary.com/ )

•PBS Printables (http://pbskids.org/adventures/treasurebox/printables.html )

•Materials Exchange (www.speakingofspeech.com/generic.html?pid=26 )

Working on Morphology/Syntax

•Grammar Crackers - (www.quia.com/pages/grammarcrackers.html )

•Planning Language Therapy (http://newton.uor.edu/facultyfolder/rider/ )

•Funbrain (www.funbrain.com )

•Whacky Web Tales (www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html )

•Kizclub activities (www.kizclub.com )

•OWL Online Writing Lab (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html )

•Royal order of adjectives - (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm )

•Interesting Things for ESL Students (www.manythings.org )

•ESL Resource Center (www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm )

•Speech Accent Archive (http://accent.gmu.edu )

•Common Errors in English (www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html )

Autism Spectrum Disorders

•Symbol World (www.symbolworld.org/index.htm )

•Facial Expressions (www.dotolearn.com/games/facialexpressions/index.htm )

•Beyond Autism Pecs Pictures and Icons (http://trainland.tripod.com/pecs.htm )

•Picture Recipes (www.bry-backmanor.org/picturerecipes.html )

•Social Stories (www.polyxo.com/socialstories )

•Tin Snips (www.tinsnips.org )

•Widgit Resources (www.widgit.com/resources/index.htm )

•Children with Special Needs Downloads (www.childrenwithspecialneeds.com/downloads.html )

Speech sound disorders

•Articulation games (www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html )

•Articulation and Phonology Games (www.speakingofspeech.com/generic.html?pid=26 )

•Approaches to the "R" Sound (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/rtherapy.html )

•The Sounds of English and Spanish - (www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/# )

•edHelper.com (www.edHelper.com )

•Minimal pairs (http://pages.britishlibrary.net/ )

A few examples of using these materials to work on literacy issues as outlined by Christine Maul's ASHA handout online

•Include written words on picture stimuli - Minimal Pairs Pictures work sheets for /f/ vs. /s/; /k/ vs. /t/; and /w/ vs. /l/ ( www.speech-language-therapy.com/txresources.html )

•Present letters of the alphabet when teaching speech sounds and phonemic awareness (Webbing Into Literacy: A Head Start Program - http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html and Alphabet Action from Learning Planet - (www.learningplanet.com/act/fl/aact/index.asp )

•Use carefully-chosen stories (Books with Repeated Lines http://www.aacintervention.com/repeatl.html Learning Colors - http://www.liveandlearn.com/cgame/colors.html and Brown Bear Brown Bear - http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/brownbear/index.htm andTargeted phonemes such as Fox and Frog Read-aloud book - http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/aloud/foxandfrog.html )

•Use printed words as cues (CVC Maker - http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/pageliteracy.html

Personal Educational Press - http://www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress )

•Use print stimuli for phrase and sentence activities (StarFall - http://www.starfall.com and Study Dog http://www.famlit.org/studydog )

Augmented/Alternative Communication

•Teaching Ideas and Therapy Materials - (www.prentrom.com/teaching/teaching.html )

•BUILLD Curriculum Guide - (www.prentrom.com/teaching/11059.PDF )

•Communication aids for public libraries (www.scopevic.org.au/therapy_crc_lfa.html )

•AAC Messaging - word lists (http://aac.unl.edu/vbstudy.html )

•YAACK Home Page - (http://aac.unl.edu/yaack/ )

•Intellitools Activity Exchange (www.intellitools.com/index.htm )

•Boardmaker Files (www.setbc.org/res/equip/boardmaker/files.html#files )

Aphasia/TBI

•Stroke Caregivers Handbook (www.strokesafe.org/Handbook.html )

•Medical cards - (www.aphasianyc.org/medcard.htm )

•Conversation boards (snacks and drinks) (www.tinsnips.org/Pages/makeandtake.html )

•Vocabulary activities with audio files (www.eslgold.net )

•Interesting Things for ESL Students - (www.manythings.org )

•Jokes - (www.manythings.org/jokes/ )

Hearing disorders

•Listen to your Buds poster and bookmarks from ASHA (www.asha.org/listentoyourbuds/ )

•The Art of Cueing - (http://web7.mit.edu/CS/Art/ ).

•ASL Browser (http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm )

•The Captioned Media Program - (www.cfv.org )

•Speech Reading In Context - (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/Sharing-Ideas/speech/index.html )

•Hearing loss simulator (http://facstaff.uww.edu/bradleys/radio/hlsimulation/ )

Voice/VPI materials

•Lippy the Lion - (www.widesmiles.org/lippy/ )

•Voice therapy techniques - (http://web.archive.org/web/20031204003041/http://www.unc.edu/~chooper/classes/voice/webtherapy/index.html )

•Assessing VPI (www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=764 )

•Speech therapy to improve hypernasality (www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=761 )

•Tips for Youth about smoking (www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tips4youth.htm ).

•The Voice Academy (www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/index.html ) in-service curriculum

(www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/slp.html )

Fluency/Stuttering

•Stuttering Home Page - (www.stutteringhomepage.com )

•online stopwatch (www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/stopwatch/ )

•Parent-Clinician Fluency Assessment (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/gjohnson/parentsknowbest.html )

•Teacher Checklist for Fluency (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/checklist.html ) -

•Just for Kids (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/kids.html )

•FAQs for Kids (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/kidfaq.html )

•Gallery of Childrens' Art (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/ISAD3/papers/gallery/albumindex.html )

•Stuttering awareness game (www.quia.com/cb/2807.html )

•Stuttering: For Kids, By Kids - (www.stutteringhelp.org/default.aspx?tabindex=486&tabid=496 )

General collections

•Speech Teach UK Downloads (www.speechteach.co.uk/p_general/downloads.htm )

•Communication Connects (www.communicationconnects.com/therapist_techniques.asp )

•This Works for Me - (www.speakingofspeech.com/generic.html?pid=1 )

Commercial Companies

•Linguisystems (www.linguisystems.com )

•AGS age calculator (www.agsnet.com/calc/ )

•AGS Caseload Calculator (www.speechandlanguage.com/caseload/caseload_calc2.asp )

•Teachnow.com (http://Teachnow.com )

Generators

•Puzzlemaker – (http://(puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ )

•The Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker (www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/ )

•A Web Quest generator (http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/ )

•Worksheet generator (http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/ )

Freeware/Shareware (Software) on the Internet

•Bungalow Software (www.BungalowSoftware.com/downloadfiles.htm )

•The Kids' Domain (www.kidsdomain.com/games )

•Totware - Benjamin's Favorites (www.het.brown.edu/people/mende/totware.html )

•The Don't Laugh at Me program (www.dontlaugh.org )