Communication Sciences and Disorders
Programs at Penn State
Communication Sciences and Disorders
At the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, the program prepares
professionals who provide intervention, diagnostic, and therapeutic services
to children and adults having speech, language, and/or hearing disorders.
http://csd.hhdev.psu.edu/
Professional Associations
American Academy of Audiology
Provides professional development through education and research, and
increases public awareness of hearing disorders and audiologic services
http://www.audiology.org
American Disability Association
Promotes awareness of disability culture by building bridges of understanding
among all people to enhance a collective quality of life and access to
freedom.
http://www.adanet.org/
American Psychological Association
(APA)
Works to advance psychology as a science, a profession, and a means of
promoting human welfare.
http://www.apa.org
The American School Counselor
Association (ASCA)
Focuses on providing professional development, enhancing school counseling
programs, and researching effective school counseling practices for the
development of all students.
http://www.schoolcounselor.org/
The American Speech-Language Hearing
Association (ASHA)
Ensures that all people with speech, language, and hearing disorders have
access to quality services to help them communicate more effectively.
http://www.asha.org/
National Aphasia Association
Dedicated to promoting the care, welfare, and rehabilitation of those
with aphasia through public education and support of research.
http://www.aphasia.org/
National Stuttering Association
Serves as the USA's largest self help organization for people who stutter
and for people who interact with them on regular basis.
http://www.nsastutter.org/
The Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing
Association (PSHA)
Devoted to all individuals and groups that have common concerns and interests
in the field of human communication disorders.
http://www.psha.org/
Pennsylvania State Education Association
(PSEA)
The Keystone State affiliate of the National Education Association is
the foremost advocate for all children and public education in Pennsylvania.
http://www.psea.org/
Selected Reference Sources
The Clinician's Thesaurus: A Guidebook for Wording Psychological Reports
and Other Evaluations
Serves as the clinician's toolkit for preparing clear, precise, and vivid
evaluation and reports.
BF31.Z82 1991 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education
A handy desk reference for all those involved with special education.
LC4007.E53 1990 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Dictionary of Counseling
Provides definitions for terms used in counseling.
BF637.C6B444 1994 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor
Paterno
Directory for Exceptional Children
Provides listings that encompass the entire range of developmental, organic,
and emotional handicaps.
LC4007.D5 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Directory of Facilities & Services for the Learning Disabled,
1997-98
LC4031.D4502 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Educational Technology Abstracts
Designed to assist teachers, trainers, and all educators involved in educational
technology and design. Identifies important current materials in the area
of educational and training technology.
LB1028.3.E38 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
The Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders
Provides a comprehensive source of information available about hearing
impairment, treatment, noted specialists, and helpful organizations.
RF290.T93 2000 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of
the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
Presents a comprehensive vision of what special education is about in
a readily understandable, usable, summative form.
LC4007.E53 2000 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
A Glossary of Special Education
Provides simple explanations of terms used in special education for guidance
educators and parents.
LC3957.G58 1988 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
How to Prepare for the Praxis Examination in Audiology
Provides students and clinicians with the only test preparation manual
available for the Praxis examination in audiology.
RF291.3.P39 2001 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Illustrated Dictionary of Speech-Language Pathology
Covers most terms related to speech and language disorders.
RC423.S533 2000 Reference Life Sciences Library 4th Floor Paterno
The Special Education Yellow Pages
Serves as a complete guide for finding sources, agencies, and resources
that deal with disabilities.
LC4031.P488 2000 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Special Educator's Complete Guide to 109 Diagnostic Tests
Provides a comprehensive overview of the most frequently used tests for
diagnosing suspected disabilities.
LC4019.P53 1998 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Textbook of Hearing Aid Amplification
Presents ideas and clinical experiences of those professionals who deserve
to be heard..
RF300.H36 2000 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Writing With Symbols 2000
A powerful talking and word processing program with over 8,000 pictures.
LC3969.5.W75 2000 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor
Paterno
Indexes and Abstracts
British Education Index
Lists and analyzes the subject content of all articles published internationally
and in the British isles on subjects that are of permanent interest to educators.
Z5813.B7 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertation Abstracts is the primary source for 1.4 million doctoral dissertations
(and selected master's theses) from over 1000 North American and European
universities. Includes a link to the UMI full text dissertation pilot project.
Coverage: 1851 to date. Abstracts are available for dissertations since
1980, abstracts for theses since 1988.
Updates: monthly (usually between the 20th and 25th day)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#DISS
Education
Abstracts Full Text (Wilson)
Education Abstracts Full Text (Wilson) covers over 625 periodicals, with
indexing from 1983, and full text for many since 1994.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ERLEDUCABS
Educational Administration Abstracts
Annually provides 1000 abstracts for items in more than 200 journals, books,
government reports and conference papers, covering important areas from early
childhood education, K-12, community colleges, and higher education.
Z5814.M26E3 Reference Educ & Behav Sci. Lib 5th
Floor Paterno
ERIC
-- Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC, (Education Resources Information Center),
is a premier database of journal and non-journal education literature, with
more than 1.1 million citations since 1966. Sponsored by the Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Dept. of Education.
ERIC covers two types of literature:
Journals [over 1000 scholarly, professional
and practitioner journals]
ERIC Documents [non-journal literature, such
as conference papers, standards reports, etc. Not peer-reviewed].
The recommended ERIC search interface for PSU users is Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts.
What Works Clearinghouse
Created in 2002, the goal of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is to identify
findings of scientific evidence. The WWC collects, screens, and identifies
studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products,
practices, and policies); reviews studies that have the strongest design;
and reports on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC
Evidence Standards. Study
reports [ratings of individual studies and designs for reliability];
intervention reports [findings that meet WWC Evidence Standards for a
particular intervention]; topic
reports [description of topic and each intervention that the WWC reviewed]
http://www.w-w-c.org/
The
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences is the online
equivalent of the 24 volume encyclopedia published in 2002. Content is organized
around more than 30 primarily interdisciplinary topical areas of active research
and significant promise (for example, memory, crime and violence, markets,
modernization), combined with the categories: Overarching Topics,Disciplines,
Intersecting fields, and Applications. Includes extensive indices, searchable
full-text, and embedded electronic reference links. Annual updates are planned
for release from 2004.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCBEHVSCI
Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstract (LLBA )
Covers all aspects of the study of language, including hearing and speech
pathology phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, philosophy
of language, and applied linguistics.
http://www.csa.com/factsheets/llba-set-c.php
Medline
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database, with
over nine million citations and author abstracts from more than 3900 biomedical
journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. Coverage goes back
to 1966. Connect through E-Resource list:
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?where=Go+There&what=MEDLINE
Mental
Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full
text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests
covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology,
and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.
Each entry includes test author, publication information, scoring information,
an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed,
and one or more reviews of the test.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?Where=Go+There&What=MENTALMEAS
MIT
CogNet
MIT CogNet, the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online, provides access
to a searchable, full-text library of books, journals, and reference works
from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers,
professional associations, institutions, and individuals. Additional features
are conference materials, a directory of cognitive science programs, threaded
discussion groups, job listings and other career information, and more.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#MITCOGNET
Professional
Development Collection
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators and
librarians, provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text
journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, with full text dating
as far back as 1965. . It also provides full text for 167 education pamphlets,
a searchable images database, and will soon contain full text for scholarly
monographs. A title list can be seen at http://www.epnet.com/titlelists/pdf/tf.pdf.
.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PROFDEV
ProQuest
Psychology Journals
ProQuest Psychology Journals: A full text database subset of PsycINFO, including
400 full-text journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage is typically
from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date. (Coverage does not presently
include APA journals; additions to coverage occur frequently.)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PQPSYC
Psychology
Databases
Primary resource for psychology and related aspects of disciplines including
education, organizational management, psychophysiology, psychiatry, nursing,
sociology, etc. Many titles are available in full text.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PSYCINFO
PsycINFO
PsycINFO, the primary database for psychology and related disciplines, is
a database of psychological literature from the 1800's to the present, from
1300 journals from 50 countries. Through SilverPlatter, it provides full text,
searchable access to more than 25,000 articles from 42 journals published
by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present, and links to non-APA
full text journals owned in electronic format by the University Libraries.
Related subject areas included education, organizational management, psychophysiology,
psychiatry, nursing, ergonomics, environmental psychology, human factors engineering,
sociology, business, law and more. Published by the American Psychological
Association.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PSYCART
PubMed
(Medline)
MEDLINE (which stands for MEDlars onLINE) is the National Library of Medicine's
(NLM) premier bibliographic database. It includes the fields of medicine,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical
sciences. MEDLINE has 9 million citations and author abstracts from current
biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. MEDLINE
is available to Penn State users through Web access. Web-based access is also
available to any user through PubMed. Coverage: indexes 3600 journals, international
in scope, 1966-Present. Updates: Monthly
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#MEDLINE4
Sociological
Abstracts
Index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other Social
Sciences. Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope. Coverage:
1963-present.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCABS
State Education Journal Index and Educators' Guide to
Periodicals Research Strategies
Focuses on periodicals not indexed in other popular indexes.
Z5813.S68 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor
Paterno
Web of
Science (Penn State users only)
This database provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences
Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index from 1986 on. Connect
through the E-Resource list:
http://www.lias.psu.edu/entry/webofsci.html
Selected Journals
Ear and Hearing
Covers assessment, diagnosis and management of auditory disorders. Continues
the Journal of the American Auditory Society.
RF286.E18 Life Sciences Library 4th Floor Paterno
Hearing Research
Publishes papers concerning basic auditory mechanisms.
RF1.H4 Life Sciences Library 4th Floor Paterno
Journal
of Communication Disorders (Online)
Provides up-to-date information on clinical and research advances in a wide
range of hearing and speech disorders.
RC423 .J67 Life Sciences Library 4th Floor Paterno
Electronic version:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00219924
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR
Continues the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. Includes papers pertaining
to the process and disorder of hearing, language, and speech, and to the diagnosis
and treatment of these disorders.
RC423.J7 Life Sciences Library 4th Floor Paterno
Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
Provides up-to-date information dealing with all aspects of clinical speech,
language and hearing services for children.
LB3454 .L33 Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Resources for Communication Sciences and Disorders
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders (NIDCD)
One of the Institutes comprising the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
Net
Connections for Communciation Disorders and Sciences
Serves as a library of pointers to general resources and information on the
internet relevant to the field of communication disorders and sciences.
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/welcome.html
Stuttering Center
of Western Pennsylvania
Involved with the treatment of people who stutter, research on the nature
and treatment of stuttering, education for students and clinicians interested
in learning more about stuttering, and support for people who stutter, their
families, and their clinicians.
http://www.stutteringcenter.org/
The
Stuttering Homepage
Dedicated to providing information about stuttering.
http://www.mnsu.edu/dept/comdis/kuster/stutter.html
What
is a Communication Disorder?
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/sped/projects/ose/categories/cd.html