Communication Sciences and Disorders Subject Guide
Communication Sciences and Disorders, often abbreviated COMD, is the field devoted to the study and treatment of disorders of speech, language, and hearing. The field is divided into Audiology, which deals with hearing disorders; and Speech Language Pathology, which deals with speech, language, and swallowing disorders.
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No Tags Selected Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences
ANCDS is a group of professionals interested in encouraging the highest quality of life for adults and children with neurologic communication disorders.
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Focuses specifically on children with hearing loss, providing ongoing support and advocacy for parents, professionals and other interested parties.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | ASHA
ASHA is a professional, scientific, and creditentialing association serving speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | ASHA
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 135,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.
Applied Psycholinguistics publishes original research papers on the psychological processes involved in language. It examines language development , language use and language disorders in adults and children with a particular emphasis on cross-language studies. The journal gathers together the best work from a variety of disciplines including linguistics, psychology, reading, education, language learning, speech and hearing, and neurology. In addition to research reports, theoretical reviews will be considered for publication as will keynote articles and commentaries. ISSN: 0142-7164
Audiologists: About the Career
Description of audiology as a career. From the Bureau of Labor Statistic's Occupation Outlook Handbook.
Audiology Foundation of America
THE AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA empowers audiologists to be independent and autonomous practitioners by supporting their educational preparation, professional practice and leadership development.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with coverage dating as far back as 1937.
An international non-profit medical society of health care professionals who treat and/or perform research on birth defects of the head and face.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides robust and quality research information in areas related to communication and mass media.
Council of Academic Programs in Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Organization representing academic programs which offer master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral preparation of audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and/or hearing scientists.
Contains citations to 1.2 million dissertations and masters theses. Coverage begins in 1861, with abstracts available since 1980, and thesis abstracts since 1988.
Covers educational research and resources, including career, adult, vocational, technical, and teacher education; education of the handicapped, disadvantaged, and the gifted; early childhood education, junior colleges and higher education; reading and communications skills; languages and linguistics; education management; counseling and personnel services; library and information science; information resources.
Guide to Otolaryngology Resources on the Internet
Collection of links from The Bobby R. Alford Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
ISAAC - International Society for Augmentive and Alternate Communication
Promotes the use of the best possible communication techniques and tools for individuals who rely on AAC, and enhancing inclusion and social participation of AAC users.
Journal of Communication Disorders
The Journal of Communication Disorders publishes original articles on topics related to disorders of speech, language and hearing. ISSN: 0021-9924
Louisiana Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 18550 Highland Road, Suite B, Baton Rouge, LA 70809 225.756.3480 /800.246.6050 / 225.756.3472 (fax) aud-slp@lbespa.org
Louisiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Membership in LSHA offers opportunities for networking with other speech language pathologists and audiologists in the State of Louisiana.
Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, Medline contains citations and abstracts to international biomedical literature from over 3700 journals on topics including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services. The database contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Part of the US government's National Institutes of Health, NINDS focuses on biomedical research on disorders of the brain and nervous system.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [NIDCD]
One of the institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health. NIDCD is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language.
National Student Speech Language Hearing Association | NSSLHA
National organization for graduate and undergraduate students interested in the study of normal and disordered human communication.
National Student Speech Language Hearing Association | NSSLHA
The National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) is a pre-professional membership association for students interested in the study of communication sciences and disorders.
Covers major advances and their implications in all aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate neuroscience, emphasizing basic research studies but also including special coverage of neural diseases, neuroimaging, dementias, pain, drug addiction, and memory.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source covers over 70 wide-ranging topics including: Cytology, Nursing, Nutrition, Oncology, Pediatric Care, Pharmacology, Public Health, and Radiology.
Includes an index with abstracts from over 1300 journals, dissertations, and technical reports in 30 languages from 50 countries, as well as summaries of English-language chapters and books published worldwide, concerning psychology and the related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry. Major subject areas include: experimental psychology, developmental psychology, communications, social processes and issues, personality, physical and psychological disorders, professional issues, applied psychology, and behavioral psychology.
RehabWorld: Speech Language Pathology
Comprehensive listing of resources, including salary surveys, job postings, web sites, usenet groups, listservs.
Science Direct, published by Elsevier Science, serves as a web information source for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research. It offers access to more than 1,100 journals in 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.
SERI - Special Education Resources on the Internet
A collection of Internet accessible information resources in the fields related to Special Education.
Speech-Language Pathologists: About the Career
Description of SLP as a career, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook.
"The world’s most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works."
Stuttering Foundation of America
Provides free online resources, services and support to those who stutter and their families, as well as support for research into the causes of stuttering.
THE MERCK MANUAL MEDICAL LIBRARY: The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Merck & Co., Inc. provides access to the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 17th edition.
The National Aphasia Association
The National Aphasia Association (NAA) is a nonprofit organization that promotes public education, research, rehabilitation and support services to assist people with aphasia and their families.
Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Welcome to the National Aphasia Association
Promotes public education, research, rehabilitation and support services to assist people with aphasia and their families.
