ASHA Handout

Internet Gold for Speech-Language Professionals

Judith Maginnis Kuster - MSU, Mankato

What follows is the HANDOUT to accompany my powerpoint presentation delivered at the ASHA convention in Philadelphia, PA, November 18, 2004. The URLs were all current on the day of the presentation. There is no guarentee they are present now.

Quick (and very brief) Review of the Usefulness of the Internet for our Profession

Examples of professionally-relevant resources to find client information

AskERIC (ericir.sunsite.syr.edu)
Pubmed (clinical.uthscsa.edu/pubmed.htm)
Organizations
- ASHA (professional.asha.org)
- Brain Injury Association (www.biausa.org/Pages/home.html)
- Autism Society of America (http://www.autism-society.org/)
- American Stroke Association (www.strokeassociation.org/)
Other
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) (www.nidcd.nih.gov)
- Family Village (www.familyvillage.wisc.edu)
- National Association for Rare Diseases (NORD) (www.rarediseases.org/)
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM)
- Internet Public Library (IPL) (www.ipl.org)

Examples of professionally-relavent resources to find client information

ASHA Journals online (professional.asha.org/resources/journals/index.cfm)
CEUs online
- Online CEUs (www.onlineceus.com)
- Audiology Online (www.audiologyonline.com)
- SpeechPathology.com (www.speechpathology.com/ceus/index.asp)
- Prentke Romich (www.aacinstitute.org/welcometoaacissp.html)
- Thinking Publications (www.thinkingpublications.com)
- ISAD archives (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/isadarchive/onlineconference.html)

Examples of Internet Guides in our discipline

Ron Kuppersmith's Otolaryngology Resources on the Internet (www.bcm.tmc.edu/oto/others.html)
Eric H. Chudler's Neurological Disorder Resources (faculty.washington.edu/chudler/disorders.html)
Yahooligans (www.yahooligans.com)
Rhymezone.com (www.rhymezone.com)
findsounds.com (www.findsounds.com)
onelook dictionary (onelook.com)
dogpile (www.dogpile.com)
- needymeds (www.needymeds.com)

Examples of Several Professionally-relevant Mailing Lists

Mailing lists relevant to school SLPs
- Apraxia-kids@listserv.syr.edu
- hemi-kids@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
- down-syn@listserv.nodak.edu
- autism@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
- capd@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
- groups.yahoo.com/group/latetalkers
- groups.yahoo.com/group/childdevdelays
- groups.yahoo.com/group/slptalk
Mailing lists relevant to SLPs in other settings
- acolug@listserv.temple.edu
- alzheimer@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
- larynx-c@listserv.acor.org
- stutt-l@listmail.temple.edu
- groups.yahoo.com/group/neckbreathers
- groups.yahoo.com/group/stutteringchat
- groups.yahoo.com/group/ClubRett
- .groups.yahoo.com/group/fragile_x/
- groups.yahoo.com/group/beyond-hearing
- groups.yahoo.com/group/TBI-Survivor
- groups.yahoo.com/group/strokesurvivors
Examples of Special Interest Division mailing lists
- sid3voice@list.medicine.uiowa.edu
- dysphagia@b9.com
- sid4@listserv.temple.edu

Examples of Online Materials That Can Be Adapted For Therapy

Examples of interactive sites

Subservient Chicken (www.subservientchicken.com)
Magnetic Poetry (www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm).
Ozmo the Oracle (www.cyberhaunt.com/site/flash/ozmo.html)
Idiom hangman (www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/hangman/idioms.shtml)
Hangman (www.kidscom.com/games/hangman/hangman.html)
Chronological Age Calculator (www.agsnet.com/calc/calc1.asp)
20 questions (come.to/20Q)
quia speech (www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html)
quia language (www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html)
quia stuttering (www.quia.com/cb/2807.html)

Examples of reproducibles

Animal Concentration Cards (www.bry-backmanor.org/animalconcentration.html)
File Folder Games (www.preschoolprintables.com/filefolder/filefolder.shtml)
Chateau Meddybemps (www.meddybemps.com)
Picture Dictionary (www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html)
Rhyme pages (www.EnchantedLearning.com/Rhymes.html)
DLTK's Printable Crafts For Kids (www.dltk-kids.com)

Examples of books

BookPop Virtual Library (www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html)
Clifford's Interactive Storybooks (teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1)
Webbing Into Literacy: A Head Start Program (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html)
Fox and Frog Read-aloud book (http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/aloud/foxandfrog.html)
Sometimes I Just Stutter (www.stuttersfa.org/sijs/sijs.htm)
The Story of Thumper, the Cleft-affected Bunny (www.widesmiles.org/Kids_Lit/thumper/)
Changing the Words Around (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad7/papers/badmington7/badmington17.html)

Examples of Actual Clinical Materials/Ideas

Language
- StarFall, (http://starfall.com)
- Puzzlemaker (puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/)
- Online crossword puzzle maker (www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/)
- Planning Language Therapy (newton.uor.edu/facultyfolder/rider/)
- Storybook Station (www.searsportrait.com/StoryBook/StoryBook_StoryIndex.asp?tag)
- speaking of speech materials exchange (speakingofspeech.com/generic38.html)
fluency/stuttering
- Parent-Clinician Fluency Assessment (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/gjohnson/parentsknowbest.html)
- Stuttering Prevention: A Manual for Parents (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/Parents/starkweather.html)
- Treating the School-Age Stutterer (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/components/treatschoolage.html)
- Just for Kids (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/kids.html)
- Making My Own Way: Empowering Children Who Stutter (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/butler.pdf)
- Stuttering Presentation Guide (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/ahlbachguide.html)
- Key Pals/Pen Pals for children who stutter (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/kids.html#key).
voice/vpi
- Voice therapy techniques, (web.archive.org/web/20031204003041/http://www.unc.edu/~chooper/classes/voice/webtherapy/index.html)
- Assessing VPI (www.choa.org/OurServices/Craniofacial/Programs/Speech/SpeechPathology4.asp?id=1043)
- Speech therapy to improve hypernasality (www.choa.org/OurServices/Craniofacial/Programs/Speech/SpeechPathology3.asp?id=1040)
hearing disorders
- Fingerspelling (where.com/scott.net/asl)
- ASL Browser (commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm)
- The Art of Cueing (web7.mit.edu/CS/Art/).
- The Captioned Media Program (CMP) (www.cfv.org)
speech sound disorders
- Story-Making Machine (www.communicationconnects.com/stories.asp)
- Minimal pairs (www.marlodge.supanet.com/wordlist/index.html)
- Speaking of Speech materials exchange (speakingofspeech.com/generic26.html)
  - r and s cards
  - vocalic r bingo
- The Sounds of English and Spanish (www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/about.html)

Examples of Freeware/Shareware

The Kids' Domain (www.kidsdomain.com)
Don't Laugh at Me (www.dontlaugh.org)

Examples of Materials That Can Be Adapted For Therapy - a collection of resources by Judith Maginnis Kuster (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html)