Abbye's Webliography

Fun Stuff

* Do you think that you know me? I developed a quiz for my friends to see who knows me best? You can take the quiz by clicking on DO YOU KNOW ABBYE QUIZ!

* I absolutely love to shop!!! One of my favorite
places to shop is at Old Navy because they have cute and cheap clothes.

* I also like to go to the movies. My boyfriend and
I usually go to Marquee Cinemas in Charleston.

Speech Pathology Sites

* If I ever need to find out some information related
to speech pathology, I can just visit ASHA. This is a site geared towards anyone who wants to learn more about communication disorders. It has information for clinicians who are interested in reading more about their field. It has information for people with communication disorders or parents of children with communication disorders. It also provides information for students studying communication disorders.

* I found a really interesting site for speech pathologists to visit. It is the National Center for Voice and Speech. It has information about how to take care of the voice. It has links for singers, speech pathologists, students, and lifelong learners. It lists voice hygeine techniques that are useful to everyone.

Every speech pathologist and student studying communication disorders needs to know the ASHA Code of Ethics. This is a set of priciples that govern speech pathology and audiology. If you break these principles, you will be in big trouble! Therefore, it would benefit you greatly to read and keep up on the code of ethics.

Research Resources

For my research, I decided to study late-talkers vs. language delayed children. Here is some some of the sources that i used when conducting my research:

One of the books that I used was my CD 425 book. It is called Language and Communication Disorders in Children. This book has lots of information for late-talkers, as well as information on other communication disorders that deal with children. The authors of the book are Deena K. Bernstein and Ellenmorris Tiegerman-Farber.

I also looked at Is Your Child A Late-Talker?. This website was composed by C. Collins, L. Cooper, and L. Parenti. It has many charts and data related to the developmental milestones that children go through. It has a chart for when they should be saying certain phonemes, as well as charts of when they should be performing certain receptive and expressive skills.

Another site that has good information on late-talkers was Expressive Vocabulary of Bilingual Toddlers: Preliminary Findings. This site discusses research that was done on late-talking children. The author of the article is J. Patterson. He discusses some outcomes of late-talkers.

Personal Interests

* I love to read! My favorite author is James Patterson

* I am a huge fan of Friends. I have to be home every Thursday at 8:00 so that I can watch it.

* I am also a fanatic of Days of our Lives. I have watched it most of my life. I try to catch it everyday, but if I miss an episode, I don't freak out over it. I figure I can catch up the next day.
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Well, we are 1/4 of the way through the semester!!! This has been a stressful week for me. I don't know why. It just seems that I got
nothing accomplished in this class or in any of my other classes. I had so much work to do, and it seemed never-ending. This week I set out to finish my assignments from week for, and i did not come close to doing that. I still haven't finished my webliography from week 3. I am having troubles with the URLs. The reason i set out to finish week
4 assignments was so that i would not be overloaded on Monday when i receive the new assignments. I will still try to finish the assignments, but i will have to do lots of work over the weekend to do so.
The content addressed this week included the VARK Inventory, which was very interesting. I got to find out what kind of learner I am. I also worked on my webliography (even though I did not get very far on it). I did my essential and foundation questions for my research project. I have decided to research late-talkers vs. disorders. I then read about
developing search strategies for doing my research project. I also read about evaluating resources. I haven't actually evaluated any yet.
The processes i utilized in completing my work this week involved Julie and I going over to the computer labs at Smith. Like i have said before, we go in between classes so that we can motivate ourselves. This week i just did not feel very motivated for some reason. I guess
i just got lazy.
Doing the work that i have done this week, i have realized that i need to give myself a break every once and a while. I stress out TOO much!!! I just don't like knowing that i still have more work that has to be done. I would rather get it finished and not have to worry about it for a couple of days. I know that i have plenty of time to finish it, but it is always on my mind.
As for questions, i don't have any at the moment. I probably will after i start finishing the assignments, but none come to mind right now. I hope to finish more work in the next 3 days. Hopefully i will. If i don't, i will try not to freak out about it :)

Abbye