Our monograph collection includes specialised material published in Australia and overseas. We maintain a core collection of journals in the fields of hearing and vision loss, in print and electronic form, as well as books, conference proceedings, annual reports, newsletters, videos, DVDs, kits and CD-ROMs.
The library also holds archival material documenting the 160-year history of NextSense.
- AAC Augmentative & Alternative Communication
- AACE News
- AAMR Journal: Australian Citizen Limited
- Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
- Access: the National Issues Journal for People with a Disability
- Access Journal: the Journal of JMU Access Partnership and the Access Association
- Access Review
- Accessworld
- ACEHI Journal
- ACEL Monograph Series
- ACQ: ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing
- Advances in Speech Language Pathology
- Agosci in Focus
- American Annals of the Deaf
- American Journal of Audiology
- American Journal of Mental Deficiency
- American Journal of Mental Retardation
- American Journal of Occupational Therapy
- American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
- APC Review
- Applied Psycholinguistics
- ASHA: a Journal of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Atypical Children Bulletin
- Audiology Now
- Audiology Today
- The Auricle
- Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
- Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
- Australasian Journal of Special Education
- Australia & New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities
- Australian Academic and Research Libraries
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology
- Australian Disability Review
- Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist
- Australian Educational Leader
- Australian Hearing and Deafness Review
- Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education
- Australian Journal of Adult Learning
- Australian Journal of Audiology
- Australian Journal of Developmental Disabilities
- Australian Journal of Early Childhood
- Australian Journal of Education
- Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf
- Australian Journal of Human Communication Disorders
- Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
- Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties
- Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Australian Journal of Mental Retardation
- Australian Journal of Ophthalmology
- Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
- Australian Journal of Remedial Education
- Australian Journal of Special Education
- Australian Language and Literacy Matters
- Australian Library Journal
- Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
- Australian Orthoptic Journal
- Australian Research in Early Childhood Education
- Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
- Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S
- Australian Teacher of the Deaf
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- Braille Monitor
- British and Irish Orthoptic Journal
- British Association of Teachers of the Deaf Magazine
- British Journal of Audiology
- British Journal of Ophthalmology
- British Journal of Visual Impairment
- British Orthoptic Journal
- CAEDHH Journal
- CAEDHH Magazine
- Canadian School Executive
- Canadian Teacher of the Deaf
- Child Language Teaching and Therapy
- Children's Environments
- Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
- Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
- Cochlear Implants International
- Communicating Together
- Communication Disorders Quarterly
- Communication Outlook
- Company Director
- Contact: Bulletin of the North Shore Deaf Children's Association
- Contact: Bulletin of the North Shore O.D. Parent Group
- Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders (CICSD)
- CTEBVI Journal
- CTEVH Journal
- Curriculum Perspectives
- D.V.H. Quarterly
- D.V.I. Quarterly
- DBI Review
- Deaf Education Aotearoa New Zealand Journal
- Deaf History Journal
- Deaf Review
- Deaf Worlds
- Deaf-Blind Education
- Deaf-Blind Perspectives
- Deafness and Education: Journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf
- Deafness and Education International
- Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Directions: Journal of Educational Studies
- Disability & Society
- Disability, Handicap & Society
- Disparity: Policy, Practice and Argument
- The Drum
- Ear and Hearing
- Education and Training in Mental Retardation
- Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded
- Education Technology Solutions
- Educational Audiology Review
- The Educator (ICEVI)
- Essential Teacher
- European Journal of Disorders of Communication
- Every Child
- The Exceptional Child
- Exceptional Children
- Exceptional Parent
- Eye contact: meeting the needs of children with impaired vision and additional learning difficulties (RNIB)
- Family Matters: Newsletter of the Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Family Voices Magazine
- First Language
- Focus: a newsletter for staff working with people with visual and learning disabilities (RNIB)
- Focus on Exceptional Children
- Future Reflections
- Gallaudet Today
- Hearing Technology Review
- InCite
- Independent Living
- Infants and Young Children
- Infant-Toddler Intervention
- Insight: supporting blind and partially sighted young people
- Intellectual Disability Australasia
- Intellectual Disability Australia
- Interaction
- International Journal of Audiology
- International Journal of Disability, Development & Education
- International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
- International Journal of Non-profit & Voluntary Sector Marketing
- International Journal of Orientation and Mobility
- International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
- JADARA
- JARA Journal of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology
- Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
- Journal of Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Journal of Child Language
- Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders
- Journal of Children's Communication Development
- Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
- Journal of Early Intervention
- Journal of Educational Audiology
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability
- Journal of International Special Needs Education
- Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Journal of Low Vision and Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation
- Journal of Memory and Language
- Journal of Phonetics
- Journal of Physiotherapy
- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Journal of Reading
- Journal of Research in Reading
- Journal of South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment
- Journal of Special Education
- Journal of Special Education Technology
- Journal of Speech & Hearing Disorders
- Journal of Speech & Hearing Research
- Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research
- Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
- Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
- Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association
- Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps
- Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped
- Journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf
- Journal of the South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment
- Journal of Vision Rehabilitation
- Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
- Language
- Language and Speech
- Language Learning
- Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
- Lantern Light
- Leading and Managing
- Learning Disabilities Research and Practice
- Link: Australia's Disability Magazine
- Link-Up: library services for people with disabilities
- Listen (Ecoute)
- The Listener: Journal of the Learning to Listen Foundation
- Literacy
- Literacy and Numeracy Studies
- Literacy Learning: The Middle Years
- Management Today
- Media Access Report
- Mental Retardation
- National Acoustics Laboratories - "Noise Effects and Hearing Loss Prevention"
- National Acoustics Laboratories -"Hearing and Hearing Aids"
- NB: the eye health and sight loss magazine for professionals
- New Beacon: the journal of blind welfare
- Newsounds
- NISE Bulletin
- NoticeBoard: Magazine of the Association for Children with a Disability
- NSSLHA Journal (National Student Speech Language Hearing Association)
- The NSW Journal of Special Education
- Odyssey
- OMIAA Journal
- Open letter
- Perspectives in Education and Deafness
- Phi Delta Kappan
- Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics
- Physiotherapy
- Practically Primary
- The Practising Administrator
- Primary and Middle Years Educator
- Professional Educator
- Quad Wrangle
- Rattler: the Childrens Services Magazine
- RE:view
- Reading and Writing Quarterly
- Reading Research Quarterly
- The Reading Teacher
- Remedial and Special Education
- Report of Reviewable Deaths in..
- Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities
- Research in Developmental Disabilities
- Review of the European Blind
- School Effectiveness and School Improvement
- Second Language Research
- Seminars in Hearing
- Sign Language & Linguistics
- Sign Language Studies
- Signpost
- Sound News
- Special Education in Canada
- Special Education Journal
- Special Education Perspectives
- Speech, Language and Hearing
- SPEVI Conference
- STVnews
- Tactic
- TAD Journal
- Talking Sense
- Taralye Bulletin
- Teacher: the National Education Magazine
- Teacher of the Deaf
- Teacher of the Deaf: the Journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf
- Teaching English to Deaf and Second-Language Students
- Teaching Exceptional Children
- Technical Aid to the Disabled
- Technology Update
- TESOL Journal
- TESOL Quarterly
- Third Sector Review
- Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
- Topics in Language Disorders
- Trends in Amplification
- Visability
- Vision Enhancement
- Vision Resource Bulletin
- Visual Impairment Research
- Voice: the journal of Down Syndrome Australia
- Voice (Down Syndrome Victoria & Down Syndrome NSW)
- The Volta Review
- Volta Voices
- The World Blind
- Young Exceptional Children
- Zero to three
NextSense staff can access these journals without a username or password from any NextSense location. If you are working offsite, please contact the library staff for the usernames and passwords to access these journals.
Current subscriptions
- Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, vol. 42 (2018) - present
- British Journal of Visual Impairment, vol. 17 (1999) - present
- Cochlear Implants International, vol. 1 (2000) - present
- Deafness and Education International, vol. 1 (1999) - present
- International Journal of Audiology, vol. 41 (2002) - present
- The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, vol. 1 (1996) - present
- Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, vol. 92 (1998) - present
Open Access and freely available journals
- Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 20 (2004) - present
- Australian Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 1 (1985) - vol. 19 (2003)
- Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, vol. 1 (1955) - vol. 55 (2009)
- Australian Orthoptic Journal, vol. 12 (1972) - present
- Braille Monitor, 1957 - present
- British and Irish Orthoptic Journal, vol. 6 (2009) - present
- CTEBVI Journal (California Transcribers and Educators of the Blind and Visually Impaired), 2009 - present
- CTEVH Journal (California Transcribers and Educators of the Visually Handicapped), 1996 - 2003
- The Educator (ICEVI), vol. 14 (2002) - present
- Insight : supporting blind and partially sighted young people, August 2015 - present
- International Journal of Orientation and Mobility, vol. 1 (2008) - vol. 9 (2018)
- JADARA, vol. 1, no. 2 (1967)
- Journal of Educational, Pediatric & (Re)Habilitative Audiology, vol. 7 (1999) - present
- Journal of Physiotherapy, vol. 56 (2010) - present
- Journal of South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment (JSPEVI), vol. 4 (2009) - present
- Odyssey, vol. 11 (2010) - present
- Research Developments (ACER), 2013 - present
- Trends in Hearing, vol. 18 (2014) - present
- Vision Rehabilitation International, vol. 10 (2019) - present
- Visual Impairment and Deafblind Education Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 5 (2014) - present
- Volta Voices, vol. 22 (2015) - present
This is the list of assessment kits and models held at NextSense Institute Rydge Family Library. Clicking on the kit title or model name will link you to further information in the library catalogue. For access to these kits, please contact the library staff.
Kits
- APT/HI (Auditory Perception Test for the Hearing Impaired)
- APT/HI-R (Auditory Perception Test for the Hearing Impaired - Revised)
- APT/HI-3 (Auditory Perception Test for the Hearing Impaired - 3rd ed.)
- Bayley-Scales 3
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale 1998
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale (Expressive)
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale (1984)
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale (3rd ed., Receptive)
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale (Stimulus Manual)
- Bracken Concept Development Program
- Braille FUNdamentals (Middle/High School Levels)
- Braille FUNdamentals (Primary/Elementary Levels)
- BRIEF (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function)
- BRIEF-2 (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - 2nd ed.)
- BRIEF-P (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Preschool)
- Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales
- CASL (Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language)
- CELF Preschool 2 (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Preschool)
- CELF-R (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Revised)
- CELF-3 (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - 3rd ed.)
- CELF-4 (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - 4th ed.)
- DAOM (Developmentally Appropriate Orientation and Mobility)
- DAS (Differential Ability Scales)
- DEAP (Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology)
- ESPT (Early Speech Perception Test)
- EVT-2 (Form A) (Expressive Vocabulary Test - 2nd ed.)
- EVT-2 (Form B) (Expressive Vocabulary Test - 2nd ed.)
- FEAS (Forms) (Functional Emotional Assessment Scale)
- GAEL-C (Grammatical Analysis of Elicited Language - Complex Sentence Level)
- GAEL-P (Grammatical Analysis of Elicited Language - Pre-sentence Level)
- GAEL-S (Grammatical Analysis of Elicited Language - Simple Sentence Level)
- Goldman-Fristoe 2 Test of Articulation
- Goldman-Lynch Sounds & Symbols Development Kit
- ISAVE (Individualized Systematic Assessment of Visual Efficiency)
- K.ABC (Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children)
- KABC-II (Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children - 2nd ed.)
- Mangold Developmental Program
- Mangold Math no. 1
- McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities
- NNAT (Naglieri Nonverbal Bility Test)
- OWLS (Oral and Written Language Scales)
- OWLS-II (Oral and Written Language Scales - 2nd ed.)
- PALS Social Skills Program : playing and learning to socialise, for ages 3 to 6 years
- Peabody Developmental Motor Scales
- Peabody Language Development Kits Revised (Level 2)
- PLS-4 (Preschool Language Scale, 4th ed.)
- PPVT 4 (Form A) (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - 4th ed.)
- PPVT 4 (Form B) (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - 4th ed.)
- Program to Develop Efficiency in Visual Functioning
- RDL-III (Reynell Developmental Language Scales)
- SICD-R (Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development)
- SON-R 5 1/2-17 (Snijders-Oomen Non-verbal Intelligence Test)
- SON-R 6-40 (Snijders-Oomen Non-verbal Intelligence Test)
- SPICE (Speech Perception Instructional Curriculum and Evaluation)
- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 4
- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 5
- Steps Together
- TADPoLE: Tools and activities for development of visual skills with 0-2-year-level learners
- ToAD: Tools for assessment and development of visual skills
- TORCH (Tests of Reading Comprehension)
- TORCH2 (Tests of Reading Comprehension - 2nd ed.)
- TORCH3 (Tests of Reading Comprehension - 3rd ed.)
- TROG-2 (Test for Reception of Grammar - 2nd ed.)
- TSA Syntax Program
- VCFV (Visual Conditions and Functional Vision)
- VMI (Forms) 1997
- VMI (Forms) 2004
- WASI (Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence)
- WIAT (Wechsler Individual Achievement Test)
- WIAT-II (Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - 2nd ed., Australian adaptation)
- WISC-III (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - 3rd ed.)
- WISC-IV (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - 4th ed., American version)
- WISC-IV (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - 4th ed., Australian version)
- WISC-R (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised)
- WJ-III DRB (Woodcock-Johnson Diagnostic Reading Battery - 3rd ed.)
- WNV (Wechsler Non-Verbal Scale of Ability)
- Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests. Form G & H.
- WPPSI-R (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - Revised)
- WPPSI-III (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - 3rd ed.)
- WRAML (Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning)
- WRAML-2 (Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning - 2nd ed.)
- WRAT 3 (Wide Range Achievement Test - 3rd ed.)
- WRAT 4 (Wide Range Achievement Test - 4th ed.)
- WRMT-III (Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests - 3rd ed., Forms A and B)
- York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension : Complete Set
- Yorh Assessment of Reading for Comprehension : Secondary : Complete Set
- Zimmerman Low Vision Simulation Kit
Models