Bilingual Speech Pathologist Resources - Websites
Bilingual Therapies has assembled links to a number of very informative online resources. If you find a useful site not listed here, please let us know so we can share it with your speech-language pathology peers.
Associations and Organizations
- www.asha.org: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- www.nidcd.nih.gov: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Education and Research
- www.listen-up.org/edu/speech.htm: Resources and links on language development and language stimulation, particularly for parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/welcome.html: Site from Minnesota State University, Mankato, with links to general information on a variety of communication disorders.
- speech-language-pathology-audiology.advanceweb.com/Default.aspx : Advance magazine for SLPs and Audiologist
- www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/history.html: an interesting site on the history of speech-language pathology in the U.S., titled “Getting Here.”
Speech-Language Pathology
- www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/: Phonetics information from the University of Iowa.
- www.slpjobs.com: An exhaustive resource for speech-language pathologists and clinical fellowship year candidates across the country. The site maintains a comprehensive job board built specifically for candidates searching for career options within their chosen field.
Associations and Organizations
- www.nclr.org: National Council of La Raza - The largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States
- www.stuttersfa.org/br_spnts.htm: The Stuttering Foundation - Information and resources on stuttering in English and Spanish
- OELA: Office of English Language Acquisition - Contains information on policies and programs by the U.S. Dept. of Education for English-Language Learners.
- www.cal.org: The Center for Applied Linguistics provides a range of research-based information, tools, and resources related to language and culture.
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health Information - Information on various health-related topics in English and Spanish
- crl.ucsd.edu: Center for Research in Language brings together faculty, student and research associates, from various disciplines and countries, who share an interest in language.
- www.ashahispaniccaucus.com: ASHA Hispanic Caucus- this Hispanic Caucus serves to encourage the study of communicative processes and improve professional practices within the Hispanic community.
- www.deafvision.net/aztlan/welcome.html: link to Deaf Aztlan an association for deaf, hard of hearing Hispanics/Latinos and friends of that community
- www.asha.org/about/membership-certification/divs/div_14.htm ASHA’s Special Interest Division 14 (Multicultural)
Education and Research
- slhs.umn.edu/bimep/cdmldl.html: An interactive web resource funded by the Office of Multicultural Affairs of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. The site is designed to support speech language pathologists who serve linguistically diverse school-aged learners by delivering free, on-demand professional information. This forum is no longer running, but there is an archived version.
- www.apraxia-kids.org: A website initiated and maintained by the Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America (CASANA). Find information for families, professionals, a library of research and some information regarding bilingualism and apraxia.
- www.asha.org/about/Leadership-projects/multicultural/: ASHA’s Office of Multicultural Affairs offers this link for the phonemic inventory and clinical facts of seven different languages, including English. Languages include: Arabic, Cantonese, English, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
- www.nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html: Information about bilingualism from a parent of a bilingual child.
- humanities.byu.edu/bilingua/faq.html: FAQ about bilingualism.
- www.eslcafe.com: Open forums for ESL teachers on second language acquisition and bilingual education.
- http://logopedia.net/: Website with general information about communicative disorders.
- Autism: Information in Spanish about autism.
- www.education.bham.ac.uk/research/projects1/bilingualism_database.shtml: A bilingualism database with an enormous amount of references on bilingual subjects.
- ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/edling/sli.html: Bibliography of resources about bilingualism and specific language impairment (SLI) prepared by Maria Adelaida Restrepo, Ph.D. from University of Georgia, Athens.
- http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/1997/A/199700112.html: News release by the American Psychological Association "Bilingual Children Understand Written Languages Sooner Than Monolingual Children, Study Finds".
- www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/BEResources.html: Dozens of links from University of Southern California's Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research.
- www.crosscultured.com/esl_bilingual_articles.html: Research from Cross Cultural Developmental Education Services.
- http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/index.html: clearinghouse on educational resources
- http://clas.uiuc.edu/index.html: This is a great site on appropriate services for CLD children
- http://www.4children.org/news/9-97mlit.htm: this is a good article on selecting appropriate multicultural materials
- http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer?pagename=autismo: this is the Spanish version of the Autism Society of America’s web site
Materials
- Academic Communication Associates: Publishes bilingual books
- www.bilingualbooks.com: Sells bilingual books for kids that have both English and Spanish written side by side.
- www.bilingualjourney.com: Bilingual Journey-Everything in Spanish for the bilingual child.
- www.espanol.com: Bilingual website that sells Spanish music, videos, and books.
- www.locutour.com: Software for Language and Cognitive Rehabilitation.
- www.psicolibros.com: Psicolibros is a Spanish website that specializes in books for those in: "Psicología, Psiquiatría, Neurología, Psicopedagogía, Pedagogía, Logopedia, Foniatría, Educación, Marketing, Sociología, Animación Sociocultural y Trabajo Social".
- www.spanishspeech.com: TrabaLenguas provides Spanish speech and language materials.
- Usborne Books: Beautifully illustrated, award-winning Spanish-language children's books by Usborne Books.
- www.cultureforkids.com: www.cultureforkids.com has the best collection of multicultural books for children that I have found. You can search the website for books, but I suggest requesting the free catalog.
- Super-Duper, Inc: Spanish language products from Super-Duper, Inc.
