basic foundations

Anatomy/neuroanatomy

Neuroanatomy

The Whole Brain Atlas from the Harvard Medical School provides normal neuro-anatomy as well as a varity of pertinent cases studies, including stroke, Alzheimer's Disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's Disease, etc.
Links to Brain Physiology sites.

Basic Neural process tutorials including a nice glossary of neural definitions.
Skull Anatomy tutorial.
The Digital Anatomist Program from the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington contains an Interactive Brain Atlas with hundreds of central nervous system images and online quizzes for learning neuroanatomy. (Click on the outline icon at the bottom of the page and then click on "expand").
Epilepsy and brain mapping program is a comprehensive healthcare center for treating adult and pediatric epilepsy and other neurological disorders presenting with seizures. Contains information on research and seizures.
Neuroanatomy/physiology on the Internet from the Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Debrecen, Hungary.
Neuroscience for Kids - explore the nervous system
The Brain From Top to Bottom
Other Anatomy Resources
- Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
- The Biology Project - covers everything from Biochemistry to Molecular Biology, with a little bit of Mendelian Genetics. Includes charts, tutorials, and quizzes.
- The Visible Human Project
- The Visible Man a project by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to create a digital atlas of human anatomy.

Development across the lifespan

APGAR rating scale
Human Genetics Homepage created by Debra Collins and Jeff Shaw provides links to valuable genetics resources.

Language Development

Basic Language and Development Information

Child Development Basics has a section on Language Development
Speech & Language Milestone Chart from Learning Disabilities Association ofAmerica
Will I grow out of it? Milestones and Warning Signs for Speech and Language Development
Language and Speech from Parenting Babies and Toddlers.
What Children Do In Language from KidSource Online
VocalDevelopment.com developed by David J. Ertmer, Purdue University is "designed to share information about early speech development and to provide examples of the delightful speech sounds that children produce before they say words."
Sharon Glennen's Language Development in Internationally Adopted Children
Parenting Information to Enhance Language Development
- Parenting Brochures and Information
  - ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication contains products and services for parents, teachers, students, and others interested in such language arts topics as reading, writing, grammar, spelling, speech, journalism, family literature, and online distance education.
  - Positive Parenting Homepage.

Multicultural Issues, General Dialect and Second Language Learning Resources

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education for Cultural Diversity contains information on functional language instruction for linguistically different students with moderate to severe disabilities communicating with culturally diverse parents, bilingual special education and more.
ASHA brochure Children and Bilingualism
The Dictionary of American Regional English
David Sperling's ESL Cafe with LOTS of links to teaching vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation.
Site of the American Dialect Society a scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English Language in North America.
Ethnologue Database containing information on some 6,500 languages spoken in the world, including alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic data.
African American English and "Ebonics"
- Information and bibliographies on African American English
- Materials relevant to "the ebonics debate"
PhonePass, a test of English speech by telephone, designed for non-native speakers of English. The 10 minute phone test includes measures of fluency, listening and pronunciation.

American Dialect Society

Slanguage: Talk Like the Locals

General Language Resources

Sci.lang FAQ
The Eclectic Company contains a long and well-organized list of Language and Linguistic links.
The iLoveLanguages! is devoted to bringing together information about the languages of the world and includes dictionaries, language tutorials and spoken samples of languages.
For those interested in some language differences in Computer Mediated Communication a good starting point is The Jargon File a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang.
Purdue University's writing lab with over 100 documents ranging from information for ESL learners to help for students writing research papers and resumes. Many exercises and handouts are available that may be adapted for some clients.
Linquistics funland provides links to activities for ESL.
Riggs Institute - a non-profit literacy training agency
Teacher to Teacher from the Ohio Literacy Resource Center provides excellent ideas and activities.

Grammar

WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system by Cognitive Science Laboratory Princeton University. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
OnlineEnglish grammar
Grammar Lady
Related Links for Grammar
Dr. Grammar

History of Communication Disorders

A Bibliography Of Writings On The History Of Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Communication Disorders, And Allied Subjects by Jeffrey Wollock, D. Phil., New York and Jorge Perelló, M.D., Barcelona.

Getting Here: The First Hundred Years of Speech-Language Therapy in America by Judith Felson Duchan

The Development of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in the United States by John J. O'Neill, past president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Kuster, JM, How Soon We Forget. . . . , ASHA Leader, December 24, 2002, p. 10

Ten Authorities In Search Of An Agreement a skit where several authorities on stuttering, "spoof" themselves at the 1959 Bahamas conference.

The Jamaican Farewell a skit where several authorities on stuttering, "spoof" themselves at the 1963 Jamaican conference.

A Early History of ASHA by Charles Van Riper

A Short History of Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation by Leo Doerfler

Phonology and Phonetics

Phonology

The Articulatory Database Registry

Structure of Phonemic Awareness
The Dictionary of American Regional English
Phonetics
- Speech Accent Archive - "This site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Currently, we have obtained 248 speech samples."
- Vowel shift
- The International Phonetics Association
- Searchable archives and files from FoNETiks an on-line publication
- Phonetics - Spelling - Whole Language:How We Put Them Together for the Best of Both Worlds, which includes links to a phonetics comparison chart and 28 rules for English spelling.
- Phonetics pronunciation guide
- Online Phonetics Course from Department of Linguistics at the University of Lausanne
- Interactive Sagittal Section by Daniel Currie Hall, "displays mid-sagittal sections and IPA transcriptions for user-specified articulations."
- Sound Files from Ladefoged
- Peter Ladefoged's site which has the same material as the CD that accompanies his book: Vowels and Consonants
Phonetic Fonts
- Several Phonetic fonts which can be downloaded are linked to this page created by the Web Development Team at the Yamada Language Center, University of Oregon
- The Phonemic Font Package (PFP) is a tool to do phonetic transcriptions on the Macintosh. It consists of two fonts for phonemic transcription, International Phonemic and PhonemicTwo You may use it on a trial basis for 14 days, but then you have to register and pay the shareware fee of US$10.
- Where you can download fonts and order cassettes with the sounds of IPA

Prosody

Suggestions for teaching Lexical Stress Patterns in English collected and summarized by Laura Koenig
Prosody on the web
Stress System Database lists the main word stress patterns found in nearly 200 languages
Speech accent archive

Semantics, Morphology, Vocabulary

Semantics

Morphology

A class handout on morphology learning
Vocabulary
- Word a Day site for learning new vocabulary words.
- The Weekly Idiom! from the Comenius Group to assist students of English.
- Focusing on words a program which will enhance English vocabularyskills.

Speech Science

General Acoustic / Speech Science Resources

Acoustics and Vibration Animations - learn some basics about the world of acoustics.
FAQ on acoustics from alt.sci.physics.acoustics
The Ultimate Physics Resource for anyone in a physics course.
Phonetics and Linguists Department of the University College of London

Farhan Ahmed's Speech on the Web contains many links to home pages that are related to phonetics and speech science.

Acoustics hypercard stack tutorial by Scott Bradley

Extensive links to speech sciences resources from the Perceptual Science Laboratory at the University of California - Santa Cruz

From the Acoustical Society of America an outstanding resource on acoustics.
Synthesized speech
- This site converts text you provide into Synthesized Speech
- This site contains examples of Synthetic Speech
- Bell Labs Text-to-Speech System allows you to type in words and phrases which will then be spoken back to you by various voices.
Lab Equipment
- Speech Filing System Vs3.0, computer tools for speech research, from University College London.
Speech Visualization
- Tutorial on How To Read a Spectogram
Auditory Perception
- Chris Plack's Ear Page on psychoacoustics is concerned with intensity coding and pitch perception in hearing.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World

last updated December 20, 2004
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