Speech-Language Pathology Links
American Speech Language Hearing Association
California Speech Language Hearing Association
In the Spotlight - Jennifer Taps, M.A., CCC-SLP at speechpathology.com
Jessica Barlow, Ph.D, Professor and Director, Phonological Typologies Laboratory, San Diego State University
Phonological Typologies Laboratory at San Diego State University
Dr. Barlow is a Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. She conducts research in the areas of phonology, first- and second-language phonological acquisition, bilingual phonology, and phonological disorders.
Holly L. Storkel, Ph.D, Professor and Director, Word and Sound Learning Lab, University of Kansas
Word and Sound Learning Lab at the University of Kansas
Dr. Storkel is an Associate Professor of the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences and Disorders at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She is also the director of the Word and Sound Learning Lab, which has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2001. Dr. Storkel’s research focuses on how typically developing children and children with language impairments learn and represent words and sounds in memory by examining the acquisition, organization, and processing of words and nonwords.
Speech Language Therapy, Caroline Bowen, Ph.D
Please visit these two pages for pictures and homework sheets for three-element clusters and some complex two-element clusters: http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/spl-spr-skw-skr-str.pdf and http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/tx-/2-steps-clusters-assorted.pdf. Please visit this page for an excellent comparison of articulation disorders vs. phonological disorders (phonetic vs. phonemic): http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/phonetic_phonemic.htm.
The Phonetics Flash Animation Project
This University of Iowa site features animation of how to produce target English, Spanish and German sounds. Many children have benefited from this because it makes the process of producing each sound more clear.
Sharynne McLeod, Ph.D
Dr. McLeod provides numerous resources on her web site from her research at Charles Sturt University in Australia. In particular, it is recommended that SLPs access her questionnaires for the child and his/her family, friends and teachers (Speech Participation and Activity Assessment - Children (SPAA-C) at: http://athene.riv.csu.edu.au/~smcleod/SPAAC2.pdf.
Dr. McLeod and her colleague, Dr. Hand, have also generously offered their in-depth clusters probe (1991) at: http://athene.riv.csu.edu.au/~smcleod/Consonantclustertest.pdf. This probe samples all initial and final English clusters at least two times. A transcription form and photographs are included for administration.
The Hanen Centre
The Hanen Centre is a non-profit organization based in Canada. Their mission is to support the language development of preschoolers through collaboration with families, teachers and other caregivers. Hanen offers several opportunities for SLPs to become certified to teach courses for families and teachers.
In 2008, the State of California established Preschool Learning Foundations for social-emotional development, language and literacy, English language development and mathematics. These standards serve as the basis for all of San Diego Unified’s preschool speech and language goals. Interested readers are also directed to the parent-friendly overview of the Preschool Learning Foundations in English at http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/re/psfoundationsvol1intro.asp and versions translated into Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Spanish at http://inet2.cde.ca.gov/cmd/translatedparentaldoc.aspx?docid=5051-5064.