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Banter Booster #10: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists
David Kinnane
April 03, 2023
Welcome to Banter Booster! I’m David, imagining a world in which our teenage sons do what we ask the first time…
(Still waiting.)
Inconceivably, it’s the last week of Banter Booster for this term! We’ve quested far and wide to win and share some handy tools and resources:
FREE therapy resources, including tools to support clients and families with early language stimulation tips, sensory overload, work safety, and communication symbols in mainstream classrooms
FREE training opportunities about how to talk to families about DLD, swallowing rehabilitation with biofeedback, effective teaching strategies, assessing reading comprehension, and the surprising challenge of breaking the word ‘salad’ into syllables!
Early reading activity idea to discourage guessing and encourage decoding
Tool of the week: FREE, evidence-based study tips for high school students
Private practice tips about supervision, managing emotions, and burnout
Open-access research/summaries about cog comm disorders, sign language and its effect on spoken language, and adolescent wellbeing
Client and other perspectives on work and life!
We are SLPs of action, so let’s tumble straight in!
Free Therapy Resources
This is brilliant!
— Cosy Direct (@cosydirect)
Mar 28, 2023
Are you a teacher or do you know one?
The WorkSafe 101 program has been specifically designed to help teachers educate their students in years 9-12 on their OHS rights & how to stay safe as they enter the workforce. To learn more about the program, visit: httpworksafe.vic.gov.au/worksafe-101-h…p
— WorkSafe Victoria (@WorkSafe_Vic)
Mar 27, 2023
Here's a guide to using communication symbols in mainstream classrooms:
— Commtap CIC (@Commtap)
Nov 17, 2022
Free Training & Learning Opportunities
Ever wondered whether you should tell someone about having DLD, and how to do it? Have a look at this blog! #DevLangDis #slpeeps#wespeechies#ece#asha#dldyouandme#speced#slpa#slp2b#Speechlanguagepathology#dld123@pinchof_SaLT
— DLDandMe (@DLDandMe)
Mar 28, 2023
Fabulous article. Highly recommended read for all #dysphagia clinicians. Congratulations 👏 to the authors @swallowneurolab@FlindersCFI@UCNZ swallowing lab!
— Dr Jo Murray (@JMurrayFlinSP)
Apr 1, 2023
Sadly, most folks -- even teachers -- have bad instincts about strategies that do and don't help us learn.
In this video, John Dunlosky (not on Twitter, alas) offers some insights: e.g., class size matters much less than we think.
h/t @P_A_Kirschner
— Andrew Watson (@AndrewWatsonTTB)
Mar 29, 2023
How do you assess reading comprehension? The answer might not be what you think.
fivefromfive.com.au/comprehension/…
— five from five (@FIVEfromFIVE)
Mar 28, 2023
Are ‘syllable types’ overrated?
The maximum onset principle means that it should be sa.lad to ensure syllable 2 has an onset. See Smith, K.L. and Pitt, M.A. (1999). Phonological and Morphological Influences in the Syllabification of Spoken Words. Journal of Memory and Language 41, 199-222.
— SeanPert (@SeanPert)
Mar 31, 2023
Tool of the Week
Activity Idea
Using look alike words can help break those bad habits like guessing words & using the first letter. Look alike words requires kids to attend to every letter & sound…. Which is how good readers read! https://
— Heidi Jane (@DroppinKnwldge)
Mar 27, 2023
Private Practice Tips
#Supervisors/#Advisors: A few kind words can make a big difference to your research student or post-doc. And it doesn't cost anything. #ECRchat#EMCRForum#PhDchat#PhDforum#postdoc
— Hugh Kearns (@ithinkwellHugh)
Mar 31, 2023
How to cool yourself down if you get worked up:
1. Breathe.
2. Focus on your body.
3. Say a mantra.
4. Acknowledge and label your feelings.
5. Take a break.— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz)
Mar 30, 2023
Working NEAR the brink…
@KatWheatley97 on compassionate leadership as an antidote to burnout in Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
— The Psychologist (@psychmag)
Mar 28, 2023
Open-Access Research & Summaries
Do you want to read the new INCOG guidelines and learn what recommendations are new particularly, for cognitive communication disorders? #ibia2023
👉 qrco.de/bdfVRN
— Dr Nicholas Behn (@NicholasBehn)
Mar 30, 2023
Learning a Sign Language Does Not Hinder Acquisition of a Spoken Language, #JSLHR study finds. By Elana Pontecorvo, Michael Higgins, Joshua Mora, Amy Lieberman, Jennie Pyers, & Naomi Caselli httpG@SIGPerspectivesP#SLPeepsD@CSDisseminate_@BU_Tweetsl@Wellesleyp
— ASHA Journals (@ASHAJournals)
Mar 31, 2023
Patients participating in voice therapy via telepractice are more likely to initiate treatment and attend treatment and less likely to cancel sessions compared with patients receiving treatment in person. Check out the latest in AJSLP! on.asha.org/3lxsxkx@WUSTL_ENT@EmoryENT
— ASHA Journals (@ASHAJournals)
Mar 24, 2023
🚨 Don't miss these 3 new @bmj_latest papers in The Adolescent Well-being Collection from @PMNCH each with a different focus:
▶️Disability
▶️Digital transformation
▶️Humanitarian & fragile settings
Read now➝ httpbit.ly/AWBCollectiono#1point8o#Adolescents2030p— PMNCH (@PMNCH)
Mar 28, 2023
Client and other perspectives
The language instinct is strong!
This is an amazing level of intelligence. Wow
— winsh (@winsh)
Mar 28, 2023
Research evidence shows that #InclusiveEducation is good for ALL kids including socially e.g. wider and richer social networks & stronger social competencies. Those are dry words on a page until you see a picture and hear a story like this 👇 http
— Dr Kate de Bruin (@DrKatedeBruin)
Mar 27, 2023
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.’”
— Kurt Vonnegut— Tim Ferriss (@tferriss)
Mar 27, 2023
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