Communication Sciences and Disorders Research Guide

The following information is intended as a guide and starting point for locating speech pathology-related materials and information. Print, electronic, and web based materials are included. If assistance is needed in using these resources or in obtaining further information, please see a reference librarian.

Reference Books
Finding Articles in Journals
Finding Books
Organizations
General Resources

Reference Books

These books are located on the 2nd floor of the library, and may not be checked out.

The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
REF RC423 .M56 2004
Divided into four categories of voice, speech, language, and hearing, this one-volume encyclopedia provides two to three-page entries on topics in communication sciences and disorders. Each article is signed by an expert in the field and is followed by a list of books and journal articles that contain further information.

Finding Articles in Journals

ASHA journals:
ASHA, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, publishes four journals that should be good places to find articles on your topic: American Journal of Speech Language Pathology; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools; and American Journal of Audiology. To search any one of these, go to “Augustana’s Periodicals” on the library home page, and type in the title of one of the journals. The results page will list databases where you can search by topic and find the full text of articles. Choose the link that says “online” which will lead you to the ASHA archive. Here, you can now search your topic in the journal, or you can search all four journals at once by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking on “all ASHA journals.” Then click on “search.” You can now search and get the full text of articles in all four journals.

To find articles in journals other than ASHA, use the following databases. In the citations that result from your search, you may or may not be provided a link to the full text of an article. If there is no link, search the title of the journal in “Augustana’s Periodicals” because we may have the full text somewhere else in our holdings. If  “Augustana’s Periodicals” does not provide a link to the full text, your next step would be to initiate an interlibrary loan for the article. Allow a week for this process, although usually it doesn’t take that long.

ComAbstracts
A small index to about 75 professional journals, ComAbstracts covers all aspects of the human communications field. Although not directly concerned with communication sciences disorders, ComAbstracts is a good place to find articles in related fields, such as human interaction.   

Communication & Mass Media Complete
In addition to covering the human communications field, CMMC includes some indexing of journal literature in CSD.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health):
CINAHL provides indexing of over1835 journals and other materials in the nursing field and related health disciplines. Very useful for CSD.  Indexing is provided from 1982 to the present.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides full text access to about 550 journals in the medical field, and provides abstracts for articles in about 850 additional journals.

Medline
Produced by the U. S. National Library of Medicine, Medline indexes over 9584 sources in the medical fields, including many journal articles related to speech pathology and audiology. Indexing covers sources from 1965 to the present.

ERIC
Issued by the Dept. of Education, ERIC offers access to over 900,000 journal articles and documents in the field of education. Many articles and documents are offered full text.

PsycArticles
Offered by the American Psychological Association, PsycArticles includes full text articles for 57 journals in the field of psychology.

PsycInfo
Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsychInfo provides indexing to journals, books, and other materials, some dating from the 1800s. Covers related disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.

Finding Books

The Library of Congress system uses these subject headings for books in the CSD field. Try using these to do a subject search in ALiCat, ILCSO, or WorldCat.

Aphasia
Articulation Disorders
Audiology
Children, Deaf
Communication Disorders
Communicative Disorders
Deafness
Ear--Physiology
Hearing Disorders
Hearing Impaired
Language Disorders 		Linguistics
Psychoacoustics
Psycholinguistics
Sign Language
Speech-Language Pathology
Speech--Physiological Aspects
Speech Disorders--Rehabilitation
Speech Perception
Speech Therapy
Stuttering
Voice Disorders
Word Deafness

You can also browse the shelves using these call numbers as a guide:

HV1551-HV3024 People with disabilities
RC 388-RC429 Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, including speech disorders.
RF Otorhinolaryngology

Organizations

American Audiology Association
 http://www.audiology.org/ The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
http://www.asha.org/

The Association for Severely Handicapped
http://www.tash.org/

American Association of Pediatricians
http://www.aap.org/

Society for Research in Child Development
http://www.srcd.org

General Resources

Health Web Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
 http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?categoryid=4025
Put together by health sciences librarians, Health Web offers links to web resources in the areas of academic institutions, associations, career resources, conferences, consumer health, clinical resources, and more.

Hardin MD Speech Pathology
 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/speech.html
The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa compiled this “list of lists,” that is, a directory of directories in the speech pathology field. They provide the helpful groupings: small lists, medium lists, and large lists, as well as links to find pictures.

Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences
 http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/welcome.html
Developed and maintained by Judith Maginnis Kuster, a pathologist and professor, Net Connections gathers useful information from the internet for “professionals and students in communication disorders and sciences as well as for persons with communication disabilities and those who are part of their lives.“

The SLP “Start Page”
 http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/slp-eureka.htm
Maintained by Dr. Caroline Bowen, a speech-language pathologist in Australia, this site provides a wealth of internet info about CSD.

Otolaryngology Resources on the Internet
http://www.bcm.edu/oto/others.html
A list of educational otolaryngology sites maintained by the Bobby R. Alford Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor University.

Compiled by Margi Rogal, Reference Librarian.
Last updated: September, 2008
 


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