Speech-Language Pathology Links
American Speech Language Hearing Association
California Speech Language Hearing Association
Jessica Barlow, Ph.D, Professor and Director, Phonological Typologies Laboratory, 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 this page for pictures and homework sheets for three-element clusters and some complex two-element clusters. Also, this page provides an excellent comparison of articulation disorders vs. phonological disorders (phonetic vs. phonemic). Lastly, this page features Dr. Bowen's "fixed-up-one" routines. Families and teachers can model how to "fix" speech sound errors as part of home practice.
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) here. This probe samples all initial and final English clusters at least two times. A transcription form and photographs are included for administration.
Enhancing Stimulability
Dr. Adele Miccio and Dr. Mary Elbert developed a stimulability program that was featured in their 1996 paper Enhancing Stimulability: A Treatment Program. The purpose is to support stimulability, not acquisition (Miccio & Williams, 2010 in Williams, McLeod & McCauley's Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children). To support stimulability for young children, they created a character and associated hand motion for each sound. The character pictures are available for SLPs to download. Please note that these are not to be used for commercial purposes. For further information about this approach, please see the Miccio & Elbert article.
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.
California State Preschool Learning Foundations
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.
ASHA’s Guidelines on the Roles and Responsibilities of the School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists
ASHA recently revised its guidelines for school-based SLPs because of the dramatic changes in SLP practice. One point emphasizes that "implementing these roles and responsibilities requires realignment of workload priorities, reasonable workloads, professional preparation and lifelong learning."
Speech Bite
This website assigns levels of evidence to research studies. ASHA (2004) stipulated levels of evidence in systematic research. The table below summarizes the various levels.
Ia Well-designed meta-analysis of >1 randomized controlled trial
Ib Well-designed randomized controlled study
IIa Well-designed controlled study without randomization
IIb Well-designed quasi-experimental study
III Well-designed nonexperimental studies, i.e., correlational and case studies
IV Expert committee report, consensus conference, clinical experience of respected authorities
SLPs can access this resource to determine if a particular study meets the criteria of a well-designed study. Few studies in this field meet the rigorous criteria of a randomized controlled study, the gold standard of research. Moreover, many papers which feature case studies provide limited evidence of the efficacy of the approach due to methodological constraints.
ASHA's Overview on Speech Sound Disorders
Families and educators may benefit from this brief resource from ASHA.
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Briefs
EBP briefs are available on this site to enable SLPs to access the systematic research that provides external evidence.
Indiana University's Learnability Lab
This site offers information and links about Indiana University's Learnability Lab. A substantial portion of the research on the complexity approach has been conducted by the dedicated researchers in this facility.
Judith Kuster's Site
Dr. Judith Kuster's excellent site that features countless links to online resources in the fields of speech-language pathology and education. Phonological and articulation resources appear scrolling down to about 1/3 of the home page.
Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America
The Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America (CASANA) offers helpful resources for both families and professionals.
