Apraxia Kids is the leading nonprofit that strengthens the support systems in the lives of children with apraxia of speech. Since its inception in 2000, Apraxia Kids has provided support to tens of thousands of families and professionals through education resources, research, and community support.
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary is an open-source machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 134,000 words and their pronunciations. CMUdict is being actively maintained and expanded. Its entries are particularly useful for speech recognition and synthesis, as it has mappings from words to their pronunciations in the ARPAbet phoneme set, a standard for English pronunciation. The current phoneme set contains 39 phonemes, vowels carry a lexical stress marker.
The Clinical Research Education (CREd) Library connects emerging scientists with multimedia resources on topics critical to the conduct and advancement of a high-quality program of clinical practice research in communications sciences and related disorders. The CREd Library is supported in part by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health.
The Merck Manuals are a comprehensive medical information source covering thousands of topics in all fields of medicine. They are offered as a free public service to health care professionals and the general public.
SpeechBITE is a free database of intervention studies across the scope of Speech Pathology practice.
"Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care." Contains free resources, as well as additional subscription content.
Through Grace Library, you can access AccessMedicine's Human Anatomy Modules, which include 3D complete, regional, and focused modules. Requires logging into AccessMedicine using your Carlow credentials.
The goal of ASHA's Practice Portal is to facilitate clinical decision making and increase practice efficacy for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and assistants by providing resources on clinical and professional topics and linking to available evidence.
Provides information about the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Praxis exams.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects people with disabilities from discrimination. The ADA website provides access to information and resources on various topics, as well as legal documents pertaining to ADA regulations.
Guide to career information about Speech-Language Pathologists, including job growth, median pay, and state & area data.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to more than 8 million (2322-2023) eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.
MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
NIDCD conducts and supports research in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, tasted, smell, voice, speech, and language. The NIDCD's mission is to improve the lives of the millions of people with hearing loss and other communication disorders. Researchers supported by the NIDCD have made seminal advances in understanding the basic biology of sensory systems and disease mechanisms, leading to increasingly effective, evidence-based treatments for diseases and disorders that affect and ever growing segment of the population.
Quick Statistics about Voice, Speech, Language (NIDCD)
NINDS is a branch of the National Institutes of Health that seeks fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system and use that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease for all people. NINDS supports and performs basic, translational, and clinical Neuroscience research through grants-in-aid, contracts, scientific meetings, and through research in its own laboratories, and clinics. It Funds and conducts research training and career development programs to increase neuroscience expertise and ensure a vibrant, talented, and diverse work force. NINDS also promotes the timely dissemination of scientific discoveries and their implications for neurological health to the public, health professionals, researchers, and policy-makers.