1. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, a division of the National Institutes of Health, is an excellent resource site for information on deafness, language, and speech disorders, as well as information for student and teacher activities.

   The site Hereditary Hearing Loss provides an overview of the genetics of hereditary hearing loss.

2. Two animations, Hearing and How it Works and Auditory Transduction, give a good picture of what happens in the middle and inner ear.
    
   Dancing Hair Cell is a highly magnified video of an outer hair cell shortening and lengthening in rhythm with Linda Ronstadt’s “Quiereme Mucho.”
    
3. Biointeractive: The Cochlea features an animation of the basilar membrane responding to pure tones and music. The video is a good demonstration of place analysis, although for simplicity’s sake it suggests that basilar membrane around the area of greatest vibration does not vibrate at all.
    
4. Cochlear Implant is an animated explanation of the process of hearing and how cochlear implants restore hearing.
    
   Two YouTube videos capture the excitement of a young woman and a four-year-old girl when their new implants are turned on.
    
5. You can see a video of Daniel Kish using tongue clicks to navigate city streets, ride a bike, and even find a ball in an open field.
    
6. The National Aphasia Association has information about aphasia and about research on the disorder as well as resources.
    
   Stroke Family has information about recovering speech after a stroke, including free mini guides, with emphasis on how the family can help.
    
7. The International Dyslexia Association provides information on the disorder.
    
8. To communicate over long distances on Isla Gomera, one of the Canary Islands, people use complex whistles; you can see a video at Free Language. The whistles are processed in the left hemisphere language areas by whistlers, but not by others (Carreiras, Lopez, Rivero, & Corina, 2005). !Kung hunters of  the Kalihari desert communicate solely with clicks while stalking game, and some researchers believe clicks formed the first vocal language. (! denotes a click, which is part of the name.) Hear South African singer Miriam Makeba demonstrate the click language and sing her famous "Click Song."
    
9. At Friends of Washoe you can learn about the lives and personalities of Washoe and her family, including Loulis. Note especially Tatu's signing and her awareness of time, including seasonal holidays.
    
   Sadly, Alex passed away in 2007, but Dr. Pepperberg continues her language research with four other parrots. See the Alex Foundation’s descriptions of the birds and the research, and a video of Alex performing.
    
   The site treehugger has a fascinating video about "language" research with prairie dogs.
    
   The In the News about birdsong and language was based on two articles in ScienceNews, appearing in March and July of 2013.

Other websites:

• Scientific American has a 60-second psych podcast, featuring an Auditory Illusions segment.
   
• More great auditory illusions and demonstrations of sound localization are available at Music special: Five great auditory illusions, courtesy of New Scientist.

• Poke fun at your Twilight fan friends in this hilarious video and informative segment about auditory processing, and bad lip reading.
   
• “Establishing a sound foundation for children who are deaf or hard of hearing: Karl White at TEDxUSU”. A great TED talk from Karl White, Professor of Psychology at Utah State University, one of the leading researchers in diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss in children. This is 18 minutes long, but has lots of media clips and information.