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Communication
Disorders
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This guide suggests resources and strategies for research on
communication disorders.
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Contents of this research guide
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Background Information | Facts & Figures | Find
Articles | Find Books | Organizations | Web
Resources | Additional Resources
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Background
Information (Overview Sources)
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Encyclopedias and other reference works are an excellent place to start
a research project or simply learn more about a particular topic.
They provide topic summaries, context, and bibliographies for further
reading.
Concise Encyclopedia of Language Pathology (R 616.855003
C748)
The Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders (R 617.8003 T847e2)
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (R 612.803 En19)
Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the The Gale
Encyclopedia of Medicine (R 616.003 G131)
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Facts & Figures (Fact Sources)
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Use dictionaries, statistical works, atlases, handbooks and similar
works to find and check facts about topics, people, or events.
The American Sign Language Dictionary (R 419 St45a)
Assessment and Treatment for School-Age Language Disorders: A Resource
Manual (618.92855 N1671a)
Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual (616.855075
Sh643a2)
Pocket Reference of Diagnosis and Management for the Speech-Language
Pathologist (616.855 W5851p2)
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Find Articles
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Search indexes, abstracts, and databases to find journal, magazine, and
newspaper articles. For a complete list of Kent Library's online
indexes and databases, see the Find: articles
page (http://library.semo.edu/find/articles.asp).
To find historical/source materials, such as newspaper and
magazine articles, use the following print sources:
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900+
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main floor)
Education Index, 1929+
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main floor)
New York Times Index, 1851+
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main floor)
To find recent articles and scholarly/peer-reviewed articles use the
following online databases:
Academic Search Premier
CINAHL
ERIC
GPO
Medline
ProQuest Research Library
PsycINFO
Wilson OmniFile
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Find General Collection Books
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Use the Kent Library
Catalog (http://library.semo.edu/find/books.shtml) to find books,
periodicals (journals, magazines, & newspapers), videos, government
documents and other materials.
Keyword searches allow you to use your own words as search terms.
Subject heading searches use Library of Congress subject headings.
Printed volumes of these headings are located near the Reference Desk on
the main floor.
Some communication disorders subject headings include -
Audiology
Communicative disorders
Deafness
Hearing disorders
Language disorders
Speech disorders
Speech disorders for children
Stuttering in children
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Browse the shelves by call number. Use the Dewey Decimal
chart (http://library.semo.edu/learn/guides/dewey100.shtml) to get you
in the right subject areas or try the following:
616 Medicine
617 Medical Sciences
618 Medical Sciences
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Organizations
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Professional organizations and/or societies often provide very useful
topic related information.
American Academy of Audiology
(http://www.audiology.org)
American Society for Deaf Children
(http://www.deafchildren.org)
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
(ASHA)
(http://www.asha.org)
Canadian Association of
Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
(http://www.caslpa.ca/english/index.asp)
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Web Resources
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Alexander Graham Bell Association for
the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
(http://www.agbell.org)
Council of Academic Programs in
Communication Sciences and Disorders
(http://www.capcsd.org)
Gray's Anatomy
(http://www.bartleby.com/107)
National Association of the Deaf
(http://www.nad.org)
National Center for Voice and Speech
(http://www.ncvs.org)
National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
(http://www.ninds.nih.gov)
National Institute on Deafness and
Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
(http://www.nidcd.nih.gov)
Net Connections
for Communication Sciences and Disorders
(http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/welcome.html)
Sound and Fury
(http://www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury)
Virtual Tour of the
Ear
(http://ctl.augie.edu/perry/ear/hearmech.htm)
The Voice Foundation
(http://www.voicefoundation.org)
The Whole Brain Atlas
(http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB)
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For a list of Web searching tools, see the Find: web searching
tools page (http://library.semo.edu/find/webpages.shtml).
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Additional Resources
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Dissertation Abstracts
(an online database available at http://library.semo.edu/find/db_az.asp#D)
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page developed by Information
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last updated: 3/9/09
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