• Core curriculum syllabus for disorders of speech and swallowing from the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences
  
• Addresses for listservs relating to a general discussion of communication disorders.
  
• Homepage of the National Institute on Deafness and other communication disorders
  
• ASHA brochure Early Identification of Speech-Language Delays and Disorders
• Recognizing Communication Disorders
• Amy Lynch's project to provide overview information about the basic disorders that are worked with by Speech-Language Pathologists summarizes information from D.Boone's Human Communication and It's Disorders in the following areas: aphasia, voice, articulation, stuttering, and swallowing disorders
  
• A series of ASHA and HHIRR pamphlets on
  • Children and Language
  • Language Development
  • Communication Disorders
  • Speech and Language Problems
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Hearing
• Health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians. This site provides many excellent handouts for workshops, client education about a variety of disorders - from ADHD, stroke, noise-induced hearing loss, cleft lip/cleft palate, etc.

attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder

• Addresses for discussion forums relating to AD(H)D.
  
• Information on AD(H)D from the OMIM
• What is Attention Deficit Disorder from the ERIC Clearinghouse.
• Frank Kannemann's FAQ on AD(H)D
  
• CHAD - national ADHD/ADD organization provides information on rights and services available to children with AD(H)D.
• Great Connections One ADD place - attempts to consolidate in one place information and resources on the Internet relating to Attention Deficit Disorder
• ASHA brochure Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  
• ADD in Europe provides information in English, Dutch and German.
• Teaching Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - A Resource Guide for Teachers from the British Columbia Ministry of Education, Skills and Training.
• ADDA the National Attention Deficit Disorder Association page.
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from National Institute of Mental Health, HHS.
• Born To Explore! - the other side of ADD by Teresa Gallagher.

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and muscular dystrophy

• Addresses for relevant listservs
  
• Information on ALS from OMIM
  
• From Baylor's Grand Rounds, Troy Callender's Otolaryngology Aspects of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Doctor's Guide - information about ALS
  
• Unoffical homepage of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association contains support and information about ALS.
  
  
• ALS Advocacy page identifies issues and opportunities to prolong survival.

alzheimer's disease / dementia

• Addresses for discussion forums relating to alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
  
• Is it Alzheimers Disease - 10 warning signs
  
• Information on Alzeimer's Disease from the OMIM
  
• David Small'sAlzheimer Web project contains information on definition, cause, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease as well as links to research labs and home pages of interest, articles, a huge database of important papers on Alzheimer's and much more.
  
• The Brain Aging Homepage from the University of California at Irvine's Research Unit provides information on Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias
  
• Harvard medical school case study of Alzheimer's disease.
  
• Alzheimer's Disease Research Center homepage
  
• Alzheimer's Disease, an overview, from the Med Help International online library
  
• Dementia Web is a source of information, advice, education, research findings and support for patients, carers, doctors and other Professionals.
  
• Alzheimer Research Forum is a non-profit organization established to support the information needs of researchers and to promote openness and collaboration with colleagues worldwide.
  
• A Year to Remember with my Mother and Alzheimer's Disease by Brenda Parris Sibley
• Alzheimer's Association
• Alzheimer Research Forum is a designed "to serve the scientific and clinical research community."
• A Very Long Goodbye: The Ravages of Alzheimer's Disease by Barbara Goldberg, provides several links to materials.
• Memorytalk.com by Barbara Van Dyne, M.A., CCC contains several pages of good material on memory.
  • Memory Tips
  • Memory exercises
  • Communicating with the memory impaired

apraxia

• Address for relevant discussion forum
  
• Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia
  
• Apraxia Kids Webpage
• Apraxia of Speech Citations by John G. Faughnan, provides links to abstracts of recent literature about apraxia.
• Some Child Apraxia Therapy Ideas
• Things to do at home to encourage speech from Apraxia Kids
• Brief thoughts about therapy with children with apraxia by David Hammer.
• Sign and Symptoms plus Language Activities are available from Nancy Kaufman.

articulation/speech sound disorders

• Caroline Bowen's Questions and Answers about speech sound disorders.

• Lisping by Caroline Bowen

• An ASHA brochure Questions and Answers about Articulation Problems

• Other articulation disorder references and listed under specific disorder etiology

autism/pdd spectrum disorders

• Addresses for discussion forums relating to a general discussion of autism.
  
• Developed by Eric Schopler TEACCH approach "includes a focus on the person with autism and the development of a program around this person's skills, interests, and needs."
• Room 5 is "dedicated to helping parents and teachers of students with autistic spectrum disorders." There are many links to valuable resources as well as Stategies for Teaching Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• Information on Infantile Autism from OMIM
  
• Yale's Autism Home Page
• Family Village - Autism Resourses
• National Alliance for Autism Research
• The World of Autism - personal perspectives
• Austism Primer an autism fact sheet by the NICHCY.
  
• Information on Treatment of Autism using Lovaas-based Behavior Modification
  
• Center for the Study of Autism Home Page
• Excellent site on autism with information on various programs available.
• Home page for the Autism Society of America
  
• Society for the Autistically Handicapped whose primary goal is to improve the quality of life for persons with Autism
• Community Autism Resources
• Autism - 64 page booklet from the National Institute of Mental Health that defines autism, explains how the disorder is diagnosed, and summarizes current thinking about possible causes and treatment options.
• JAMA has attractive patient handouts in PDF format that can be printed out on various topics, including one on Autism

• Asperger's Syndrome
  • On-The-Same-Page, an Asperger Syndrome and autism resource, developed by persons with the disabilities, for those with the condition, parents, professionals, researchers, teachers, advocates, mentors, tutors, friends, service providers, and significant others.
  • Asperger's Syndrome Home Page
    
  • Asperger's Syndrome Resources a collection of resources pertaining to Asperger's Syndrome and related disorders.
  • Asperger's Disorder

bell's palsy / facial paralysis

• From Baylor University's Grand Rounds proceedings of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences Department
  • Ear, Nose, and Throat Information Center a public service brochure on Facial Nerve Problems
    
  • Core curriculum syllabus for facial paralysis from the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences
    

brain tumor

• Addresses for discussion forums relating to brain tumor.
  
• American Brain Tumor Association's Dictionary for patients with brain tumor.
  
• The treatment of brain tumors at NYU hospital.
  
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Brain Surgery...almost. is a website which gives you useable, non-technical information about the conditions which require brain surgery, including a huge glossary of terms.
  

cerebral palsy (and similar neuro-motor disorders)

• Addresses for listservs relating to cerebral palsy.
  
• How Can I Help a booklet for friends and relatives of a child with cerebral palsy from the Cerebral Palsy Association of Western Australia Ltd, May 1995.
  
• A tutorial on cerebral palsy from Children's Medical Center of the University of Virginia
  
• Cerebral Palsy, Simple Notes on a Complex Problem is a homepage designed by Jennifer Mitchell, an SLP and Teresa Quinlan, an OT, to provide basic building blocks for therapy for a child with Cerbral Palsy.
• DANNY, a web page about a little boy with Cerebral Palsy
• The Ataxia-Telangiectasia Children's Project is a resource for AT families, physicians and scientists working towards a cure for this childhood neurodegenerative disease
  
• Homepage for the National Ataxia Foundation
• Cerebral Palsy Center for the Bay Area, Inc. has several Stories by our Participants

child language disorders

• General resources
  • Addresses for discussion forums relating to language and language disorders.
    
  • ASHA brochure Language and the Adolescent
    
  • ASHA brochure Questions and Answers about Child Language
    
  • The Symposium On Research In Child Language Disorders includes abstracts from the 2000 and 2001 Symposia.
    
  • Judith Johnston's Language Intervention Today
• Other child language disorder references are listed under specific disorder etiology

cleft palate and other oral/facial disorders

• Addresses for listservs relating to oral/facial disorders and voice.
• Home page of Wide Smiles a private, non-profit corporation providing information and networking among families of children with cleft lip/palate and craniofacial anomalies, includes a FAQ for new parents entitled When the Baby has a Cleft and a selection of recent articles from Wide Smiles Magazine.
• Before and after picture of cleft lip repair
• From Baylor University's Grand Rounds proceedings of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences Department
  • Introduction to Cleft Lip and Palate by Michael Stewart, M.D.
  • Palatal Rehabilitation after Cleft Palate Surgery by Douglas Backous, M.D.
• Brief tutorial on Cleft Lip and Palate from the University of Iowa's Department of Plastic Surgery.
• The craniofacial page is one of many pages accessed through the Pediatric Neurosurgery Home Page edited by Neil Feldstein MD, a pediatric neurosurgeon. The topics discussed are written specifically for parents and relatives of children with conditions that require care from a neurosurgeon.
• A Home page about Apert Syndrome
• What Is It Called?? - put online by the speech-language pathologist mother of a child with this syndrome, associated with an occult submucal cleft palate, language delays, hearing loss and learning disability.
• American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
• National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research
• The RAFT Research Institute provides links to other web sites concerned with Cleft Lip & Palate.
• Cleft Lip/Cleft Palate from Family Village.
• A nonprofit network for people with facial difference, their families, friends and professionals, linking professionals, patients, parents and communities to each other and to networks, books and articles.
• The Treacher Collins network
• Smiles website. Support group of dedicated families who have developed a first-hand understanding of the needs of children with cleft lip, cleft palate and craniofacial deformities.
• Department of Craniofacial Development, King¹s College London.
• The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery is the eletronic version for the World Wide Web (WWW) of the official publication of the American Association of Pediatric Plastic Surgeons, International Society of Craniofacial Surgery, European Society of Craniofacial Surgery
• Review of disorders of velopharyngeal incompetence evaluation and management procedures includes
  • Managing Speech Disorders: An Introduction to Speech Pathology and Resonance Disorders by John E. Riski, Ph.D.
  • Managing Speech Disorders: How Speech Instrumentation, Surgery and Prosthetics Can Help Your Patients by John E. Riski, Ph.D.
  • Managing Speech Disorders: Improving Your Clinical Competence with Articulation Disorders Related to Cleft Lip / Palate and Craniofacial Disorders by John E. Riski, Ph.D.
  • Managing Speech Disorders: How To Develop Your Non-Instrumental Clinical Skills for Assessing Velopharyngeal Function by John E. Riski, Ph.D.
• Description of Clefting
• Dr. Quinn's Online Textbook of Otolaryngology which consists of Grand Rounds proceedings of the Department of Otolaryngology of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
  • Cleft Palate.
    

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

• The UK Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit
  

Cri du Chat syndrome

• Cri du Chat
• Personal home page from a family with a child with Cri du Chat.
• Gallery of Children with Cri du Chat, includes interesting parent accounts of their children's progress.

Down syndrome

• Addresses for discussion forums relating to Down Syndrome.
  
• Down Syndrome Listserv Homepage includes links to other Internet resources including local Down Syndrome associations, parental support resources, disability resources, and medical resources.
  
• The Down Syndrome home page compiled from the contributions of members of the Down Syndrome listserv
  
• A FAQ about Down Syndrome
  
• Information on Down Syndrome from the OMIM
  
• National Down Syndrome Congress
  
• Links to several Down Syndrome Resources on the Internet
  
• The Home Page of the Tidewater Down Syndrome Association
  
• UPSIDE! is an informal society of individuals, parents, and friends involved with the world of Down Syndrome.
  
• A Lifetime of Inclusion home page about Down Syndrome.
  
• National Association for Down Syndrome
• Love and Learning web-page which deals with language and reading development for children with Down syndrome - age birth to 3 years.
• Has a section on Communication which includes a handout on ideas to facilitate communication development in children with Down Syndrome and also some abstracts that include information about articles on articulation and phonological development in children with Down Syndrome.
  • Down Syndrome and Learning to Talk (NDSC 1997 Convention Handouts)
  • Down Syndrome Speech & Language Therapy Abstracts

dysphagia

• Address for listserv relating to dysphagia.
  
• Phyllis Palmer's Dysphagia Resource Center
• Identification of Swallowing Patterns Associated with Dysphagia, an excellent swallowing tutorial from the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
  
• Dysphagia case study from the University of Washington Department of Radiology.
  
• Virtual Hospital archives - keyword dysphagia
  
• Eating and Swallowing by Jeff Searle, MS, Department of Hearing and Speech Kansas University Medical Center
  
• From Baylor University's Grand Rounds proceedings of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences Department
  • Otolaryngologic Manifestations of Gastroesophageal Reflux by Thomas A. Salzer, MD
    
  • Laryngo-Tracheo-Bronchial Foreign Bodies by Troy Callender, MD
• From Peter J. Casano, M.D. Ear, Nose, and Throat Information Center a public service brochure on Swallowing Disorders
  
• Aaron's Tracheostomy Page a guide to home care for a child with a tracheostomy, provides a wealth of good information from a parent's perspective.
  
• gastroesophageal reflux information from Wake Forest University.
• Dysphagia outline
• Pediatric / Adolescent Gastroesophageal Reflux Association
• Saliva control
  • Surgical Treatment Of Drooling

Emotional/behavior Disorders with possible speech-language symptoms

fetal alcohol syndrome

• National Organization of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit contains articles on FAS, excerpts from Ann Streissguth's Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Guide for Families and Communities and more
• FAS links
• ALCOWEB contains general information and information for professionals.
• The Arc's Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Resource and Materials Guide
  
• Dartmouth College Library Online System's CORK file is an Alcoholism Research Database, a collection on alcoholism and substance abuse. At the Login prompt type select file Cork. A keyword search of fetal alcohol syndrome produced over 500 hits.
  
• ABC's of FAS/FAE - a teacher's guide and resource booklet.
• Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/effect - A Resource Guide for Teachers from the British Columbia Ministry of Education, Skills and Training.