Professional Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists

The Internet is a great way of finding information about speech-language pathology. This site is a compilation of links to various speech-language pathology resources. These links cover topics from graduate programs to career opportunities to therapy ideas.

ASHA Home Page

This is a link to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Home Page. The site gives a brief history of ASHA, details requirements for certification, career opportunites, and much more. The ASHA website is a great place to start when looking for information about speech-language pathology.

Graduate School Rankings for Speech-Language Pathology Programs

Here is a listing of the top 100 speech-language pathology graduate programs in the United States.

Speech Paths

The Speech Paths webpage offers many resources including continung education opportunities, new and helpful products, classifieds, and online forums. This site also has a calendar of events allowing speech-language pathologists to see upcoming events and post their own seminars and conventions. In addition to these valuable resources, Speech Paths has online magazine publications and an online bookstore.

Speech Language Pathology World

This page is a very useful career tool for speech-language pathologists. This link lists current job offers nationwide. It also allows access to a speech-language pathologist library to aid in research. This site also has a section for speech-language pathologists to post their resumes.

Kidsource-Information About Speech & Language Disorders

This site details "the basics" of speech and language disorders. The information includes a definition of speech and language disorders, rate of incidence, characteristics of disorders, and the educational implications of communicative disorders. This site also lists several organizations that deal with speech and language problems. This is a beneficial resource for speech-language pathologists to help explain disorders to parents and family members of children who are diagnosed with a communication disorder.

The Speech-Language Pathology Website

This is a great page for parents and speech-language pathologists alike. This website contains a definition of speech pathology, a timeline for normal speech and language development, and descriptions of various speech disorders. In addition this site addresses the differences in delayed versus disordered speech. This page offers a lot of information in an easy to understand way. The Speech-Language Pathology Website would be a great resource for a speech pathologist to pass along to their clients' parents.

Speech Pathology and Special Education Resources

This page encompasses many topics in speech-language pathology. The page contains links to sites dealing with dysphagia, stuttering, central auditory processing disorder, and other speech and language disorders. Links to special education websites are also available on this page. This would be a convienant and useful site for a speech-language pathologist employed in a school or in an inclusive classroom.

Speech Therapy Activities

This is a great site to help speech-language pathologists discover new and exciting ideas. This site allows articulation picture cards to be downloaded. Also, this page gives ideas to encorporate popular children's books into language intervention therapy. These language ideas draw on the concepts presented in books such as The Carrot Seedand other childhood favorites.

Therapy Ideas

This site is a colaboration of ideas for just about every topic imaginable in speech-language pathology. There are therapy ideas for apraxia, articulation disorders, augmentative and alternate communication, autism, fluency problems, language disorders, pragmatic difficulties, and voice disdorders. This site also allows therapists to submit their own therapy ideas as well. This is a great resource for any clinician.

KiddyHouse.com

This page has many reproducable worksheets to incorporate into language and articulation therapy sessions. This source also has various themed lessons such as colors, animals, holidays, and American Indians. In addition, this page has a wide selection of easily downloaded clip art. This site would be very benficial for a speech therapist in preschool or elementary education settings.

University of Alabama Technical Writing Home Page

This is a link to the University of Alabama Technical Writing Class Home Page. This page, created by students in English 319, contains links to style guides, HTML online programs, other professional online resources, and many other topics. This is a great resource page for those interested in learning more about technical writing.