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INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL and STATE ASSOCIATIONS

International Organizations
- Audiological Society of Australia
- Speech Pathology Australia - Australia
- British Columbia Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists
- OOAQ - Canada - Québec
- Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
- Communicative Disorders Assistant Association Of Canada
- Canadian Hearing Society
- The Amity Foundation - China
- Logopedické Centrum - Czech Republic
- CPLOL (Comité Permanent de Liaison des Orthophonistes-Logopèdes de l'Union Européene) - 19 member countries in Europe
- Suomen logopedis-foniatrinen yhdistys - Finland
- ORL France
- la Fédération nationale des orthophonistes - France
- Deutscher Bundesverband für Logopädie e.V">Germany
- Panhellenic Association of Logopedists - Greece:
- Association of Speech Therapists - Hong Kong
- All India Institute of Speech and Hearing - India
- Communication Therapy International
- International: Speech Communication Association
- International Association of Orofacial Myology
- International Federation of Hard of Hearing People
- Irish Association of SLTs - Ireland
- Federazione Logopedisti Italiani - Italy
- Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology - Korea
- Malaysian: Association of Speech Language & Hearing
- NZSTA - New Zealand
- Avenir Childhood Foundation - Palestine
- Saudi Speech Pathology & Audiology Association
- Speech-Language & Hearing Association - Singapore
- SASLHA - South Africa
- AELFA - Spain
- IALP - Sweden
- Speech-Language-Hearing Association - Taiwan
- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists - the professional body for speech and language therapists in the United Kingdom.
National
State Associations

FINDING PROFESSIONALS AND SERVICES

Richard Dean's E-mail Directory of SLP/AUDs
The ASHA Directory is available for members only, on the ASHA home page.
Stuttering Specialists List.
SFA's List of Clinicians who Treat Stuttering
A directory of therapy for stuttering (and often for other speech-language disorders as well) from the Stuttering Resource Foundation.
Telephone numbers for Patient Advocacy Organizations from John Hopkins Medical Institutions

GENERAL AND PERSONAL SLP SITES IN THE US AND AROUND THE WORLD

General Pages - USA
- Communication Sciences and Disorders Internet Resources by Judith Anderson at James Madison University.
- Center Net for healthcare professionals and students in the area of Neurogenic Communication Disorders; sponsored by the National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders.
- speech path links
- Speech Therapy World
- SLP/AUD websites - a free directory project for Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
General Pages - International and non-English
- Logopedia.net - Spain
- Speech-Language Therapy in Singapore
- Department of Logopedics and Phoniatrics from Eva Wigforss, Lund University, Sweden.
- Teaching and research clinic attached to the School of Communication Disorders of the University of Sydney, Australia.
- Department of Communication Disorders - Hiroshima Prefectural College of Health and Welfare Mihara City, Hiroshima, JAPAN
- Educational programmes in Europe in logopedics/speech and language pathology and therapy/orthophonie/defectology website, by Eva Wigforss.
- Speech-Language therapy and research studies in Vietnamese by Giang Marie Tang and Charlotte A. Ducote.
Personal Pages - USA
Personal pages - International
- Gertrud Edquist - Sweden
- Speech-language disorders. in Swedish, from Jan-Erik Johansson
- Sean Pert and Carol Stowe's Speech and Language Therapy web site.
- Sauca, Andres - Spain
- Stephan Koch - in German

ONLINE COURSES AND CEUS IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS

Below are examples of some courses that have been or are offered totally online. Contact the sponsoring university to see if they are still available.

University of Washington Distance Learning
- Adaptive Computer Technology 3 credits, Dr. Sheryl Burgstahler.
- SPHSC C453/REHAB C458 - Communication Augmentation for Non-Speaking Individuals 3 credits, Patricia Dowden, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dept. of Neurophysiology) on-line course for Hearing and Balance (not distance ed. has a lot of valuable materials on it including a number of animations that can be downloaded.
Online Phonology Course from Stirling University

Below are examples of some online CEUs that have been or are offered totally online.

Online CEU's from Speechpaths.com.
AAC Online Courses by Creative Communicating are offered by credit or CEU.
Four International Stuttering Awareness Day online conferences have been offered by Minnesota State University, Mankato, for CEU or credit. Check for additional offerings from October 1-22 each year.

FINDING, APPLYING FOR, AND FUNDING A DEGREE

Speech Therapy Assistant Programs
- Cape Fear Community College, Wilmington, North Carolina
- Canada has several SLP Assistant Programs
- Baker College, Michigan
- Parkland College, Illinois
- Sand Hills, North Carolina
- College of DuPage, Illinois
Finding a graduate program
- Scott Bradley's list of University programs in Communication Disorders on the Internet.
- Peterson's Education Center lists universities which offer a graduate program.
- Conlon's links to homepages for U.S. Universities granting advanced degrees
Preparing for the GRE
- GRE Online
  Princeton Review GRE tester online
- Princeton Review
- Kaplan Educational Centers'Introduction to the GRE
Online help in applying to graduate programs
- Kaplan's why, where, when and how to apply for graduate school
- Consult Purdue's On-line Writing Lab (OWLS) if a writing sample is necessary.
Financial Aid for Education
- Financial aid and education
- Princeton Review's financing graduate school
- Student Services has a database of over 180,000 scholarships, grants, fellowships, and loans for college students.
- Federal Aid from the U.S.Department of Education, a Student Guide
- Yahoo's links to financial aid information
- Guide to student financial aid resources sponsored by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators includes an excellent page of Financial Aid Information by Mark Kantrowitz.

JOB PROSPECTS and FINDING EMPLOYMENT

Employment outlook for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
- Job Prospects in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is a file from the 1994-95 Occupational Outlook Handbook produced by the US Dept. of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Finding a Job
- Academe This Week
- JobHunt an exceptional page of links for job hunting via the Internet!
- Career Magazine searchable job postings from major Internet newsgroups, resumes, employer profiles, career links and more.
- Speech-LanguagePathologist.org lists Jobs available.
- Purdue University's Online Writing Lab contains a lot of helpful information in job finding, including how to write a resume, an acceptance letter, etc.

LEGISLATION / RULES AND REGULATIONS

Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet provides full text of legislation searchable by keyword or bill number and full text of the Congressional Record, the daily account of the Senate and the House, searchable by keyword. Also information on how to contact federal legislators, including E-mail directories for selected House and Senate members and committees.
StateSearch is a service of the National Association of State Information Resource Executives and is designed to serve as a topical clearinghouse to state government information on the Internet, including Health, Human Services and Welfare pages, Education, and connections to State Legislatures.
A keyword searchable Code of Federal Regulations
The U.S. Department of Justice website contains a pointer to information about the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the full text and fact sheets
OSHA website contains OSHA Standards, fact sheets and more
Sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)this website contains copies of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), ADA regulations, technical assistance manuals prepared by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or the United States Department of Justice(DOJ), and other technical assistance documents
State and local government on the Net
U.S. Department of Education - contains information on all aspects of the U.S. education system including special education laws, online pamphlets and publications, and access to ERIC Digests.
Educational Resources - page includes information on disabilities, assistive technology, special ed. law, online journals and publications and much more.
Links to Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center by Duncan C. Kinder

DESIGNING, PRESENTING, AND FUNDING RESEARCH

Some ASHA Convention Papers Online
- Internet Resources A Speech, Language, Hearing Sampler Prepared for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Seattle, November 1996, Compiled by National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region (NN/LM PNR) Staff
Student Research
- Mark Mitchell's Research Design Explained (3rd Edition) Home Page
- Titles and abstracts of experimental research projects from the California State University - Hayward's Communicative Sciences and Disorders Department, on a variety of topics. Chosen competitively and available through inter-library loan.
- From Purdue University's Online Writing Center a wealth of information on good writing style, including APA format.
- A Guide for Writing Research Papers, MLA Documentation from the Modern Language Association
- is an online tutorial for improving your public speaking skills.
- Some sources for internet citation formats
  - How to cite Information from the World Wide Web
  - Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style - Proposed Standard for referencing Online Documents in Scientific publications. (Revision1.4.1.2)
  - Citation of Electronic Documents (Oxford System)
Information on Ethics
- The National Academy of Sciences has made available a document on ethics in research On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Researchwhich is aimed at helping to teach ethics in research, and should be of interest and use to speech-language pathologists and audiologists in academic settings.
- Indiana University's Research Ethics contains information about teaching research ethics trends, a newsletter and and annotated bibliography on teaching research ethics, and case builder (create interactive case studies - Macintosh only)
- University of New York at Buffalo's Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care home page.
- Lawrence Hinman's Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relate to ethics.
- Provides pointers to information about ethical aspects of research involving human subjects as participants.
- A paper by Clay Helberg, M.S. Pitfalls of Data Analysis (or How to Avoid Lies and Damned Lies) .from a workshop at the Third International Applied Statistics in Industry Conference in Dallas, TX, June 5-7, 1995.
Funding Research - Grant information
- Grants and research information from The National Institute of Health
- Forms for NIH Grant Applications (FTP) in electronic format, to be used in word processors
- TRAM Research Funding Opportunities and Administration
- A Grant Getter's Guide to the Internet, the Federal Register, and other information about applying for grants
- Yahoo's links to information on grants
- Links to the Federal Register
- NIH Grants and Funding Opportunities is a major biomedical database containing information on research ventures supported by the US Public Health Service. There is a full-text searchable version of the CRISP (The Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) database which is updated weekly.
- From the University of Texas, information on grants collected all over the United States, including information categorized by deadlines, month, agency, federal government, NIH, NSF, template forms, etc.
- The Illinois Researcher Information Service
- The Foundation Center

BOOKS and JOURNALS

Medical Dictionaries / Medical Terminology
- Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages
- On-line Medical Dictionary with over 46,000 terms
- On-line Medical Dictionary
Reference "books" and guides
- The Merck Manual is the most widely used medical text in the world, describing symptoms, common clinical procedures, laboratory tests, and most medical disorders. Current therapy is presented for each disorder and supplemented with a separate section on clinical pharmacology. You will be asked to register before using the manual. Simply fill in the information requested and continue.
- Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences is a comprehensive guide to internet resources of interest to professionals and students in communication disorders and sciences as well as persons with communication disabilities and those who are part of their lives.
- Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
- An exceptional archive of Grand Rounds Presentations from Baylor's Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences Department. This link provides access to the entire table of contents. Several of the individual links are also provided under the specific disorder contents of this homepage.
- Web reference library
- Web masters notebook
- Family Village Library Card Catalog integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, their families, and those that provide them services and supports.
Periodicals - On-Line Journals And Publications
- ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
- Alzheimer's Disease Review online, peer-reviewed of the latest advances in Alzheimer's disease research and an overview of current issues.
- Behavioral & Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary journal of "open peer commentary," published by Cambridge University Press. Publishes important and controversial interdisciplinary "target articles" in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy. Articles are rigorously refereed and, if accepted, are circulated to a large number of potential commentators around the world in the various specialties on which the article impinges. Their 1000-word commentaries are then co-published with the target article as well as the author's response to each. The commentaries consist of analyses, elaborations, complementary and supplementary data and theory, criticisms and cross-specialty syntheses.
- Journal of the Acoustic Society of America abstracts
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis provides a full-text search on every abstract published in JABA since its start in 1968, including articles on fluency, attention deficit disorder, autism,etc.
- The Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery is the Official Journal of: Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons Canadian Society for Aesthetic (Cosmetic) Plastic Surgery Groupe pour l'Avancement de la Microchirurgie Canada (GAM)
- Hearsay the Newsletter of the Speech and Hearing Clinic at the University of Georgia
- Journal of Children's Communication Development abstracts
- Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior provides full-text searches on every abstract published in JEAB since its start in 1958, including articles on fluency, attention deficit disorder, autism, etc.
- Journal of Fluency Disorders table of contents
- Online Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is the Official Journal of The Institute for Craniofacial Plastic Surgery, Campinas, Brazil.
- Abstracts online of Neuron a leading general journal of neuroscience,
- Psyche is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain
- sign on and establish a free account at the American Medical Association website. This will allow access to the AMA's home page from which you can access a table of contents, search tool and abstracts for the several medical journals including the following:
  - Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
  - Archives of Family Medicine
  - Archives of General Psychiatry
  - Archives of Neurology
  - Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
  - Archives of Surgery
- SID 14 Electronic Newsletter Electronic Journal of Sociology includes a searchable archive of articles dating back to 1994.

last updated February 20, 2007