Welcome to my first webliography! Since this is the first time I've done this it might be a little rough, ok a lot rough! Look around and see what's up in my world. You might just find something you like!

Personal Interests:

I could make you a whole giant list of sites about things I'm interested in, but I'll narrow it down to just a few!

I LOVE NSYNC! That's really no secret to anyone who knows me. NSYNC is my favorite group and I don't care that they're a "boy band"! Click this to visit the official NSYNC website or click here to visit a really great site made by a super NSYNC fan!

I'm a TLC junkie! If I could, I would sit in front of the TV from about noon until 5 and watch TLC! If you're the same way, check this out!

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?? SpongeBob Squarepants! Play Spongebob games and have an underwater adventure at this site!

Fun stuff on the Web:

Any time I'm bored, I like to play games online! Here's a great site full of free online games.

Do you like to send people online greeting cards? It's a nice way to brighten up someone's day! Go here for hundreds of cards for any occasion.

Are you bored? This is the perfect place for you! So many interesting sites including online horoscopes, virtual bubble wrap, quotes, puzzles, games, fan fiction, and TONS more!!

Discipline specific "stuff":

One of the most important sites for someone in the communication disorders field is the ASHA website. ASHA stands for American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. This organization is for speech pathologists and audiologists and their website provides information for professionals, students, and the public.

Looking for websites pertaining to speech pathology? Here is a large assorted list of websites covering a vast array of topics that have to do with this field. This page is owned by Liz Herring, an SLP from Oregon. Sites about organizations, Autism, neurogenics, anatomy, and much more are included in this list.

Students (like myself) in the Communication Disorders major might find the NSSLHA website useful. NSSLHA stands for the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association. It is the only official national student association that is recognized by ASHA.

Research Resources:

I am doing research on speech and language in patients with Alzheimer's Disease, and what strategies can be used to make them more functional in these areas. I had the chance to work with patients who had Alzheimer's in a hospital nursing facility a few years ago. Since then, I have been interested in this disease and the people it affects. It's not only the person who has the disease that is affected, but everyone in their life.

For information on Alzheimer's Disease in general, The Alzheimer's Association website can be very useful. It provides information for people with alzheimer's, family caregivers and friends, physicians and health care professionals, researchers, and media.

Communicating with Alzheimer's Patients is a list of 24 citations from a literature search from the Alzheimer's disease subfile of the Combined Health Information Database. The books and articles listed all deal with communication and Alzheimer's patients.

Much information on Alzheimer's disease including important advances in Alzheimer's research can be found in the Progress Report on Alzheimer's Disease.

Other "stuff":

I attend Marshall University. Check out their website... The Thundering Herd!!

This week has flown by! Where did all the time go?! I was so proud of myself because I've actually gotten a lot of things accomplished this week. The bad part is, they didn't have anything to do with this class! I got some of my assignments finished, and I still have to finish the ones due Sunday! I thought I would get this one done first. I'm not so sure about this webliography! Well, with some work and a little luck I'm sure I'll figure it out!

I subscribed to a professional mailing list about Alzheimers disease. It must be one of the "high volume" lists that Mrs. McComas referred to in her tips on this assignment because I've been getting 10-20 emails from them PER DAY!! Things were getting so crazy with all the email coming into my account that I decided to open a new email account! I'm going to use one for this class and then the other will be my new personal one! I haven't had a chance to read all the emails from the list, but I'm a little worried that they won't have much about speech and language in them (I could be wrong of course!)

Searching for my last name was pretty interesting. There were so many different people and businesses with my name, and I never even knew it! I mean of course I didn't think I was the ONLY one with my last name, but I didn't know that there were many people with my last name in so many different states. I found people anywhere from opera singers to congressmen with my last name! I didn't find any other Andrea's, but I'm sure there's probably at least one. Who knows what's out there!! Ok, well I'm done for this week's entry. Three weeks down, seven to go! I'm outta here!