LibGuides: Communication Sciences and Disorders: Overview

Selected CSD journals

These first four are ASHA journals. You can find and access full text of each one using PubMed, CINAHL, Google Scholar or other databases.

CSD Reference sources

Try out the Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders for your topic. It has 2014 reviews on a wide range of CSD topics. We have the ebook, plus one in Reference Stacks (1st floor) and one to check out ( RC423 .C24 2014, 3rd floor).

Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders (2014, print and ebook)
1. ebook
2. ASU Reference RC423 .C24 2014
3. Additional copy to check out, ASU Main Stacks RC423 .C24 2014
Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders (e-book)
2010 Editors: Damico, Müller, & Ball
You can open this e-book by the chapter.
The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders (partial Google Book)
Partial Google Books version of e-book above. This site might be easier to search or browse in.
The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (print book)
ASU Reference RC423 .M56 2004 (on 1st floor)
This is a great book, but it's pretty dated now, 2004.
The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (almost complete Google Book)
Here's the Google Books version of our print book. You can browse or search. You might get full access to the text you need. If not, we have this in print.
Children's Speech Sound Disorders (e-book)
2009

Books for CSD

Locations of books, mostly on 3rd floor in NE corner. (But also see HV 2353 - HV 2999, in Education area on 2nd floor.)

RC 423 - RC 429
RJ 496
Especially RJ 496 .S7
Audiology RF 120
but also RF 120 - RF 308
Audiology RF 291.5
Neurology RC 346 and following

eBooks

Video -- Downloading a chapter in an ebook
Downloading a chapter can be as easy as downloading a journal article.

Finding Articles -- Databases for CSD

PubMed

PubMed provides access to bibliographic information from more than 5,200 journals in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, and provides access to over 14 million citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Coverage: 1950-present
Google Scholar
Yes, use Google Scholar and APPsearch too, as needed.
CINAHL Complete

Provides indexing to nearly 1,200 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals, as well as publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. It includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, and educational software. Abstracts are included for over 250 journals.

ASHA/N-CEP Evidence-Based Systematic Reviews
Consider starting with here, but be aware these are not primary studies. ASHA's National Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders (N-CEP). Systematic reviews form the basis for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. They are formal assessments of the body of scientific evidence related to a clinical question, and describe the extent to which various diagnostic or treatment approaches are supported by the evidence.

More ASHA and other CSD Resources

speechBITE
This database includes all published reports that provide empirical data regarding the effectiveness of one or more interventions.
ASHA Evidence Maps
ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
ASHA is the accrediting body of professional speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States. Some full-text for non-ASHA members.

More Useful Databases for CSD

Cochrane Collection Plus
This includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, with full text. It also includes 5 other databases.

Cochrane Collection Plus combines the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) and Health Technology Assessments (HTA) with the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Cochrane Methodology Register.

Cochrane Collection Plus is a source of health care data for both providers, patients and those responsible for researching, teaching, funding and administrating at all levels of the medical profession.

Coverage: Current
PsycINFO

Covers psychology and related disciplines,with 97 percent of the material peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Coverage: 1887-present
ERIC

Sources include journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. Each year approximately 30,000 new records are added.

Subjects include adult, career, and vocational education information; technology assessment and evaluation; language and linguistics; disabilities and gifted education; reading and communication; educational management; teacher and teacher education; elementary and early childhood education; urban education; higher education and more.
Education Source

Education Source provides full text access for more than 1,800 journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for thousands more. Also including are full text for 550 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Education Source is an upgrade from Education Research Complete.

Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Source also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Web of Science (ISI)

Web of Science also offers a true cited reference index, which allow you to trace particular research forward in time or backward in time to see how works grow and develop in a focused area of research.
Communication and Mass Media Complete

CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 620 journals (over 500 in full text), and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more,

Combines two databases, CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index. Over 400 journals are indexed with full text access to over 200 titles. Covers communication, mass media, and related areas.

Coverage: 1915-present
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)

Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Coverage: 1973-present

Contact -- John Wiswell

John Wiswell wiswellj@appstate.edu

Belk Library 225 262-7853

Available for consultations with students and faculty, and of course, for class sessions -- Email me.

Getting Full Text!

Our Find@ASU button in our article databases takes you to electronic full text, if we have it.

Video -- Click on Find@ASU
4 minute video

Still not getting full text? Many full text articles are available for free in some form. If you have a distinct article title or a DOI, try a quick search in Google Scholar (and Google). We also have ILLiad to get articles from other libraries. NEW -- Try Unpaywall.

Unpaywall
I've been happy with this, a button that turns green when it detects free access.. Add it to your browser: Chrome, Firefox, and probably Safari.

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Primal Pictures

Anatomy imaging software.

Primal Pictures: Anatomy and Physiology

Primal Pictures: Anatomy and Physiology includes 19 modules on the human body with clear 3D images and interactive models, narrated animations and illustrations, dissection slides you can label, clinical case studies, the impact of aging on each body systems, pronunciation guide, quizzes and much more.

Explaining the Cochrane databases

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews -- These are the Cochrane organization's own systematic reviews. Full text.

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials -- Change Search Limits to Trials. Cochrane identifies randomized, controlled trials. Not full text.

Cochrane Collaboration

The Cochrane Library This link only works on campus. But access the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and click on the Cochrane Library logo. That will take you to the journal version, which I prefer sometimes.

Communication Sciences and Disorders: Overview

Summer 2020