The Internet for Speech-Language Professionals

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Canberra Power Point

Workshops
The Internet for Speech-Language Professionals
CANBERRA 2005 CONFERENCE May 29 - June 2
Practicality and impact: Making a difference in the real world
The Web as a Work Tool in Speech Pathology Practice
SPEECH PATHOLOGY AUSTRALIA NATIONAL TOUR 2005
Caroline Bowen

This page of annotated links is associated with two workshops. The first workshop is "The Internet for Speech-Language Professionals" for the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference in Canberra, presented on May 31, 2005. The second workshop, "The Web as a Work Tool in Speech Pathology Practice", is for the Brisbane, Queensland component of the Speech Pathology Australia National Tour, in July 2005.

Introduction

The Internet holds, for the Speech-Language professional, worthwhile, time saving material and networking opportunities for practice, management, learning, teaching and research. But these materials and opportunities can be difficult to locate, verify, evaluate and use efficiently.

As professionals who access, distribute and sometimes appear to endorse, or actually recommend web content for our students and clients, and as consumers of it too, we need to be selective, and not degrade our work by accepting, sharing or indeed producing poor quality information.

The purpose of the two workshops is to suggest ways of confronting these issues by:

mastering essential software;
using effective internet research skills;
identifying key, credible sites for our discipline, research or teaching;
critically evaluating web content.

Power Point

Click on the "Canberra Power Point" link at the top of this page in order to download the slideshow for this presentation.

Essential software

Adobe Acrobat Reader
To view and print the electronic documents on this page and elsewhere on the Internet that are in .PDF format, it is necessary to download the free Acrobat Reader. It is advisable to check every 6 to 12 months that your version of the reader is the most up-to-date. Currently it is Acrobat 7.0.

Scholarship

The Internet provides many opportunities for scholars to seek out information and collaborate with colleagues. In this respect, the Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA), the Community of Science (COS), and the Seminars in Speech and Language sites are of particular interest.

Classroom
Nicenet's ICA
ICA is is a free Internet classroom, available to all, and ideal for journal groups, continuing professional development and professional self regulation activities, collaborative writing, and exchange of ideas. A "class" can consist of a group of many people, or just two or three, and everything between, depending on its unique requirements.

Research
Community of Science
COS is a research oriented information management system within which more than 480,000 researchers at some 1,600 institutions around the world, share and communicate with each other, and have access to over 11 million medical abstracts. Any individual can join and explore the resources to see if it is for them.

Segue
Collaborative Learning System
Segue, by Gabriel Schine, Alex Chapin, and Adam Franco, is an open source content management system designed for e-learning that combines the ease of use of course management systems with the flexibility of web-logs for creating various types of sites including course, news, journal, peer review and e-portfolio. When integrated into an institution's administrative systems, it can become a portal providing access to an individual user's course and personal websites.

Discovery tools

Web discovery tools include library sites and catalogues, scientific search engines, databases, e-books, meta-directories, and subject gateways.

National Library of Medicine
PubMed ... Entrez databases ... cross-database search
Entrez PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine in the US, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's.

Other library sites
Hardin MD
This is the speech therapy page of a meta-directory, or directory of directories, housed on the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, site.

Medical and Health Science Libraries on the Web
The page on the Hardin site links to a vast repositories of medical and health information.

Hardin Site Map
The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences index

Intute
Health and education

MEDLINEplus
This is the speech and communication disorders component of MEDLINEplus.

Search engines, alerts
Scirus
Scirus is a specialised search engine devoted to scientific searches only.

Google Scholar
The Google Scholar motto is, "Stand on the shoulders of giants"!

Google Alerts
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web,
news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Google Alert - Professional
An experimental service which performs regular Google searches and sends an email alert whenever new results appear.

Data bases
NORD
Rare diseases and disorders

PATSy ... PATSy speech and language web site ... intro
PATSy is a multimedia interactive patient case database, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, which can be used for teaching patient assessment skills, and for consultation by researchers and clinicians. The database contains patient cases in the following domains: speech and language, aphasia, dyslexia, medical rehabilitation, neurology, clinical and cognitive neuropsychology. It is a non-profit enterprise, sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation.

CHILDES database
Child Data Exchange System: The CHILDES system provides tools for studying conversational interactions. These tools include a database of transcripts, programs for computer analysis of transcripts, methods for linguistic coding, and systems for linking transcripts to digitised audio and video.

e-book
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
"The Merck" is the world's largest selling medical text, and it's searchable!

Discussion

The Web abounds in networking, collaboration and professional discussion opportunities that can augment what we do as clinicians, administrators and scholars.

Listservs and online discussion
Below are some examples of listservs and other online discussions of interest to speech and language professionals.

apraxia-kids
Families and professionals discuss a range of communication disorders, particularly childhood apraxia of speech, and associated issues.

phonologicaltherapy
Professionals (mainly) discuss child speech development and disorders.

Stuttering Discussion Forums
Judith Kuster points to many lists and groups whose main topic is fluency disorders.

Online Stuttering Conference
This conference held from October 1 to 22 2004 provides an excellent example of a threaded discussion. The next of these stuttering conferences is this coming October.

Meta directories

If you are new to the Internet, new to communication sciences and disorders, or new to the web resources that are available in these topic areas, explore these two meta directories first to get a flavour of what is out there.

Meta directory
Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences
Judith Kuster

Meta directory
The SLP "Start Page"
Caroline Bowen

Internet columns

Here are two Internet columns for speech, language and hearing professionals that are available on the Net and in print.

Column
Internet
Here are Judith Kuster's columns published in the ASHA Leader (formerly Asha Magazine) since 1995. Each column has a communication sciences and disorders theme. For example, Templates and Generators and Hangman and Other Word Games.

Column
Webwords
Caroline Bowen's columns in ACQ, from 1999 onwards. The Webwords columns comprise a collection of topic specific or "themed" articles on topics that include voice, craniofacial disorders, literacy, auditory processing, aphasia, low prevalence disorders and more.

ASHA

The ASHA web site provides many articles and resources for consumers and non-members on its open access pages, and an unbelievably rich password protected web site for members and affiliates. The following pages on the ASHA site are NOT password protected.

Handouts
Convention Handouts
Resources galore: course notes, slide shows, etc.

Journals
ASHA Journals online access to ASHA's journals is available to members and affiliates.

Leader
ASHA Leader online
Browse the index for freely available, topical articles of professional interest.

Institutional Sites
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH)
Mayo Clinic

Topic Specific Sites

This is an alphabetical selection of topic specific sites, web pages and other web documents.

Australian Therapy Outcome Measures
AusTOMS
The Australian Therapy Outcome Measures are tools designed for Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists to use in order to measure the outcomes of their respective services in terms of patient functioning.

Australian Therapy Outcome Measures for Speech Pathology
The Speech Pathology AusTOMs scales were developed by Australian speech pathology clinicians through focus groups, a mailed out survey, and ongoing feedback during training and pilot data collection. Consumer groups also had input into the development of all of the AusTOMs scales (OT, PT and SP) particularly the Participation Restriction and Wellbeing domains.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Apraxia Kids Web Site
Childhood apraxia of speech: information and support

Hearing impairment
Children's middle ear infections
Printouts from the Mayo Clinic

Homework
Homework
All about school homework and getting it done

Language acquisition
Vocal Development
from Purdue - babbling and the early stages

Language impairment
Adolescents with language impairment
This is a chapter from the most recent edition of Vicki Reed's book, An introduction to children with language disorders. Fifty three pages in a .pdf file, courtesy of the publisher.

Language impairment
SRCLD ... Archive Index
The Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD) was initiated in 1980, to provide a forum for the presentation of recent research and the discussion of current issues among established scholars and students in child language disorders.

Language impairment
Talking Point
Child speech / language development difficulties

Disability
Canchild
Childhood disability research at McMaster University. Masses of information about Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

Immunisation
Immunise Australia Program
Accurate information about immunisation and vaccines

Mental health
Child and adolescent mental health
University of Adelaide

Stuttering
Australian Stuttering Research Centre
Home of the University of Sydney's "Lidcombe Program"

Stuttering
Stuttering Prevention
Tony Wray

Stuttering
The Stuttering Home Page
Created by Judith Kuster, and maintained at Minnesota State University, Mankato, the SHP is dedicated to providing information about stuttering for both consumers and professionals who work with people who stutter. It includes information about research, therapy, support organizations, and conferences and other events. more

Speechwoman
Speechwoman's Site of the Month
Top picks for speech and language professionals since 1998

Tertiary teachers
Teaching Tips
An eclectic collection of resources and ideas for tertiary teachers.

The Appraisal Web Site
The language of attitude, arguability and interpersonal positioning
This site is devoted to the Appraisal framework, an approach to exploring, describing and explaining the way language is used to evaluate, to adopt stances, to construct textual personas and to manage interpersonal positionings and relationships.

Tutorials
Tutorials Home
TOPICS: Cerebral Palsy, Cleft Lip and Palate, ADHD

All work and no play...

Here's a little bit of fun!

A B C D E F ...
Phonetic alphabet tables
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot ...

Say what ... ?
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
Read it aloud!

Words
Acronym Finder
What do these 362,000 acronyms & abbreviations mean?

Canberra Power Point

Page updated 13 May 2009

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