Communication Sciences and Disorders Resources
Welcome to the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Research Guide. Within this guide, you will find information and links to Speech Pathology and Audiology related resources that you may find useful for your classwork and research.
Specialized Resources
This page provides links to associations, organizations, and agencies; and other online resources related to communication sciences and disorders.
Specialized Resources
Associations, Organizations, and Agencies
- Academy of Aphasia (AA)The Academy of Aphasia is an organization made up of individuals from both clinical and research fields who study the language problems of people who have neurological diseases.
- Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS)ANCDS is a non-profit professional association that supports practitioners who serve individuals with neurologic communication disorders by providing education, training, and certification opportunities to promote high quality professional service.
- Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology (ARA)The ARA is a multidisciplinary organization that serves as a public policy advocate for audiologic rehabilitative and habilitative services.
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)An international scientific society dedicated to generating, disseminating and promoting the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications.
- American Academy of Audiology (AAA)The AAA is the world's largest professional organization of, by and for audiologists dedicated to providing quality hearing care services through professional development, education, research, and increased public awareness of hearing and balance disorders.
- American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)AAIDD is a non-governmental interdisciplinary organization that promotes progressive policies, sound research, effective practices, and universal human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
- American Auditory Society (AAS)The primary aims of AAS are to increase knowledge and understanding of the ear, hearing and balance; disorders of the ear, hearing, and balance, and preventions of these disorders; and habilitation and rehabilitation of individuals with hearing and balance dysfunction.
- American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA)The American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA) is an international non-profit medical society of health care professionals who treat and/or perform research on oral cleft and craniofacial conditions.
- American Institute for Stuttering (AIS)AIS is a leading not-for-profit center whose primary mission is to provide universally affordable, state-of-the-art speech therapy to people of all ages who stutter, guidance to their families, and much-needed clinical training to speech professionals wishing to gain expertise in stuttering.
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 204,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel; and students.
- The Arc of TexasThe Arc of Texas promotes, protects, and advocates for the human rights and self-determination of Texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
- Augmentative & Assistive Communication Institute (AAC)AAC Institute is a not-for-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the most effective communication for people who rely on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
- Dysphagia Research Society (DRS)The purposes of the Dysphagia Research Society are to enhance, encourage, and disseminate interdisciplinary research pertinent to normal and disordered swallowing and related functions; and to foster new methodologies and instrumentation in dysphagia research and its clinical applications.
- Educational Audiology Association (EAA)The EAA is an international organization of audiologists and related professionals who deliver a full spectrum of hearing services to all children, particularly those in educational settings.
- National Aphasia Association (NAA)The NAA is a non-profit organization whose goal is to provide access to research, education, rehabilitation, therapeutic and advocacy services to individuals with aphasia and their caregivers.
- National Association of the Deaf (NAD)NAD's mission is to promote, protect and preserve the rights and quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States.
- National Center for Voice & Speech (NCVS)The NCVS conducts research, educates vocologists, disseminates information about voice and speech, and provides referral services in order to help people around the world enjoy healthy and effective vocal communications.
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)One of the institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NIDCD is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language.
- National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA)NSSLHA is the only national student organization for pre-professionals studying communication sciences and disorders (CSD) recognized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
- National Stuttering Association (NSA)The National Stuttering Association (NSA) is the largest non-profit organization in the world dedicated to bringing hope and empowerment to children and adults who stutter, their families, and professionals, through support, education, advocacy, and research.
- Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID)RID is a national membership organization representing the professionals who facilitate communication between people who are deaf or hard of hearing and people who can hear.
- Texas BEI RegistryTexas Health and Human Services Board for Evaluation of Interpreters Registry.
- Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf (TSID)TSID is the first professional organization of interpreters in the nation. TSID is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of developing and strengthening the profession of interpreting in Texas.
- The Voice Foundation (TVF)TVF is the world’s oldest and leading organization dedicated to voice research, medicine, science, and education.
Websites
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)Strategies to assist people with severe communication disabilities to participate more fully in their social roles including interpersonal interaction, learning, education, community activities, employment, volunteerism, care management, and so on.
- Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information & Exchange (CIRRIE)Includes the Database of International Research, the International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation, and other resources on rehabilitation research with the goal of facilitating the sharing of rehabilitation research information internationally.
- Hearing Health FoundationThe mission of Hearing Health Foundation is to prevent and cure hearing loss through ground breaking research.
- National Rehabilitation Information Center Knowledgebase (NARIC)The NARIC Knowledgebase contains more than 3,000 resources on disability and rehabilitation ranging from organizations and agencies to periodicals and Web resources. Use to locate disability and rehabilitation organizations and agencies.
- Neuroscience @ NIHThe NIH is home to one of the largest neuroscience research centers in the world. Over 150 laboratories, originating from eleven different Institutes, conduct research in the basic, translational, and clinical neurosciences.This website represents an inter-institute effort to convey, on an NIH wide basis, the research being conducted in the neurosciences.
- speechBITEDatabase of evidence-based intervention studies across the scope of speech pathology practice.
- The Stuttering FoundationProvides free online resources, services and support to those who stutter and their families, as well as support for research into the causes of stuttering.
A Word About Evaluating Websites
There is a lot of health information freely available on the Internet. Some websites offer up-to-date, authoritative information. Some websites offer out-dated, misunderstood, and incorrect information. To complicate matters, it can be very difficult to tell the two apart. The following will help you evaluate health information websites and allow you to judge each website on its information merit, not just its looks: A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web (Medical Library Association).
