Speech and Hearing

The URL for this page is http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/guides/sciences/spchhear.html.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
Location: REF RC 423 .M56 2004

Encyclopedia of Psychology. 2000
Location: REF BF 31 .E52 2000 vols. 1-8

Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness. 1987
Location: REF HV2365 .G35 1987

Journal Articles

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. 1973 - current
Location: ALADIN
All aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

MEDLINE. 1966 - current
Location: ALADIN
Index to more than three thousand medical journals. Suggested search terms: "speech therapy", "speech disorders", "speech-language pathology", "language disorders", "speech", "hearing disorders", "deafness", or "audiology".

PsycINFO. 1967 - current
Location: ALADIN
Access to worldwide professional and academic literature in psychology and psychiatry, including journals, dissertations, and book chapters. Suggested search terms: "speech therapy", "speech disorders", "language disorders", "speech disabled", "hearing disorders", "deaf", or "audiology".

Journals@OVID. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
Full-text access to over forty-five biomedical journals. Access to table of contents and abstracts from many other additional scientific, technical, and medical journals.

CINAHL. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
Journals for nursing and allied health disciplines. Suggested search terms: "fluency disorders", "language disorders", and "speech disorders".

ERIC (Education). 1966 - current.
Location: ALADIN
Articles from education journals and other publications including research documents, technical reports, classroom guides, and curricular materials. Suggested search terms: deafness, speech impairments, language impairments, and hearing impairments.

Sociological Abstracts. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
Suggested "descriptors": language disorders, deaf. Click on the blue 'FindIt' button in the citation to get the full text online, if available.

Biological Abstracts. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
Biology and medical journals. Limit the search to the 'DS Disease Information' field and try the terms speech, language, or hearing. Click on the 'FindIt Check for Availability' button in the citation to get the full text online, if available.

Communication & Mass Media Complete. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
Journals in communication studies. Suggested subject terms: speech disorders, language disorders, deaf, deafness, stuttering. Click on the 'FindIt Check for Availability' button in the citation to get the full text online, if available.

For older journal articles:

Psychological Abstracts. 1927-1998
Location: REF BF 1 .P65
The print version of PsycINFO, it covers material from 1927 to 1998.

Cumulative Indexes of the Journals of the American Speech and Hearing Association. 1936-1961
Location: REF RC 423 .W4

Index to Speech, Language and Hearing Journal Titles, 1954-1978.
Location: REF RC 423 .I54

Annual Abstracts of Speech, Voice, Language, and Hearing. 1979
Location: REF RC423.A1 A56

DSH Abstracts. 1960-1985. Published by Deafness, Speech and Hearing Publications.
Location: REF RF 1 .D45

Online Resources

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Home Page
The home page of the major professional association includes a 1998 Buyers Guide, tables of contents and abstracts of their journals, consumer brochures, recruitment advertising, and the full text of the publication Technology 2000: Clinical Applications for Speech-Language Pathology.

Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Includes conference announcements and abstracts as well as ARO's Virtual Library listing of Internet sites and other media.

Dysphagia Resource Center
Includes tutorials, case studies and lists of organizations and conferences on swallowing disorders.

Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences
At Minnesota State University.

Stuttering Home Page.
This page is maintained by Judith Maginnis Kuster, CCC.SLP, an associate professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

American Academy of Audiology: Useful Links
This page is sponsored by the American Academy of Audiology.

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education
Gateway to the Disability Statistics Center and the searchable REHABDATA database,maintained by the National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC).

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health
Information on Hearing, Ear Infections, and Deafness, Balance, Smell and Taste, Voice, Speech, and Language.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
"In examining what works and does not work in health care, AHRQ's mission includes both translating research findings into better patient care and providing policymakers and other health care leaders with information needed to make critical health care decisions."

Boystown National Research Hospital.
BTNRH is recognized internationally as a leader in communication disorders research, as well as a referral center for children with problems such as ear, hearing and balance disorders, cleft lip and palate and speech/voice problems.

Page maintained by Janet Olsen