Better Speech and Hearing: Databases for May

The American Speech-Language Hearing Association and others have long recognized May as “Better Speech and Hearing Month” to help raise awareness and strengthen efforts to improve the quality of life for those with needs in speaking, understanding, and hearing. Several databases within the Gottesman Libraries’ collections serve to enhance teaching and research for the program in Speech and Language Pathology.

ComDisDome covers the communications disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. Major areas include Audiologic Management; Audiology; Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC); Communication Mechanism and Systems; Electroneuronography (ENoG); Hearing Assessment; Hearing Conservation; Hearing Impairment; Hearing Science; Pediatric Audiology; Professional Issues; Rehabilitative Audiology; and Speech/Articulation. With coverage back to 1950, the database provides journal articles, books, dissertations, grants, web resources, conference information, and directories.

ERIC, the database of the Educational Resources Information Center, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature through two main parts: Current Index to Journals in Education and Resources in Education. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs from 1966 to the present, with full text ERIC documents available online from 1993 and up. Subject headings include Speech, Speech Acts, Speech and Language Pathology, Hearing (Physiology), Hearing Therapy, Hearing Impairments, and numerous related terms.

Health and Wellness Resource Center provides access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. It includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library is a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. Mostly in the section for Special Education, but sprinkled throughout other sections, are numerous lesson plans, resource manuals, objectives, and other information pertaining to speech and hearing.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts covers the international literature from 1973 to present in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database includes all aspects of the study of language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database 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. Hearing and speech were added to the thesaurus in 1992.

Medline indexes biomedical literature. Areas covered include microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology, environmental health, anatomy, organisms, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and education, technology, agriculture, food, industry, humanities, information science and communications, and health care. The literature of speech and hearing is widely covered from a medical standpoint.

PocketKnowledge, the social archive for Teachers College, contains historical and current material in the field of speech and hearing, including entries within the Contributions to Education series. Faculty members Azubah J. Latham, Elizabeth McDowell, Jane Zimermann, Ira Ventry, Edward Mysack, Honor O’Malley, John Saxman, Catherine Crowley, Karen Froud, and others figure in the important development of the College's programs in speech and hearing sciences.