Web Sites for Evaluation for SLHS 491

Step 1: Consult the "CARS Checklist" for information on how to critically evaluating web sites.

Step 2: Review "Evaluating WWW Resources" web site for further explanation of criteria.

Step 3: Select two web sites from the below lists (on the same topic) and use your Evaluating Web Sites worksheet (handed out in class) to critically evaluate the site. OR find two other web sites on one of these topics using Google at http://www.google.com or another search engine. Consult with Professor DeMaio regarding due date and point value for this assignment.

ADHD Sites

• Targetting Language Development in ADHD Kids, located at:
  http://www.newcastle.edu.au/news/media-releases/2000/mathersadhdnat2000.html
• Peg Duncan's Language, Learning, and Disability Bookmarks:
  http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/pegduncan.htm
• New Survey Shows Fear of Medication, Confusing Information Keep Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder from Getting Treatment :
  http://www.kidsource.com/ld/adhd.survey.html
• Brown University Child and Adolescent Research Newsletter: ADHD symptoms may mask a language-based disability:
  http://www.childresearch.net/CYBRARY/NEWS/9809.HTM
• ADHD in the Schools: How to Open a Can of Worms:
  http://www.bartow.k12.ga.us/psych/articles/worms.htm
• NIMH: ADHD:
  http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/adhd.cfm
• Early Identification of Speech Language Delays and Disorders:
  http://www.kidsource.com/ASHA/early_identification.html
• Attention Deficity/Hyperactivity Disorder:
  http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/add_adhd/add_nichcy.html
• Providing an Appropriate Education to Children with Attention Deficit Disorder: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed352747.html
• Highlights of the beCalm'd Product:
  http://www.iwr.com/v/b-calm/highlite.html

Autism Sites

• Autism: An Overview:
  http://www.healing-arts.org/children/autism-overview.htm
• Institute for Hearing Disorders: Autism:
  http://www.icdspeech.com/autism/autism.htm
• Tomatis Method and Autism:
  http://www.tomatis.com/English/Articles/autism.htm
• Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder:
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed436068.html
• Autism in Children and Adolescents:
  http://www.mentalhealth.org/publications/allpubs/CA-0009/default.asp
• Severe Speech and Language Disorder Gene Located:
  http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtprerela98n57.html
• One Mother's Reflections: Recent Readings about Autism:
  http://www.nectac.org/pubs/pdfs/ECbulautism.pdf
• A Guide for People with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder:
  http://www.nas.org.uk/peoplew/index.htm
• Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and semantic-pragmatic disorder: Where are the boundaries?:
  http://www.mugsy.org/bishop.htm

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Updated 09/24/02