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#93: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
Important NDIS updates and more!
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👋🏻 I’m David, and - despite all the NDIS challenges - I want to help you to stay calm and strong 🧘 💪

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1. 🆓 Resources
Parents often ask me about the best way to engage infants in lap reading - noting, at the very earliest stages, that their babies aren’t always real attentive to books.
It’s important, first and foremost, to note that infant attention spans are very short. So know that it’s
— Dan Wuori (@DanWuori)
11:29 AM • Jun 11, 2025
To my friends using UFLI, check out this timer that can be used to support pacing:
board.multitimer.net/view/?q=kaz42l…
The app, Multitimer, is free in the App Store. It’s easy to use and provides a quiet alert to move on to the next step.
#UFLI#perkypacing
— Justin Browning (@SorforMore)
3:41 AM • May 28, 2025
2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training
#speechies - register for this FREE live online symposium and hear more about personal narratives- assessment / analysis / cultural influences. Check out the program and keynotes sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/gl…
— Dr Marleen Westerveld (@MWslp)
10:23 AM • Jun 11, 2025
⏰ Have you got your ticket yet? Just two weeks to go until our free online global conference Phonics Interventions: A Sounds-Write Symposium begins! We're so excited to be bringing you 30+ talks from literacy experts across four days. While we put the finishing touches to the
— John Walker, Sounds-Write (@SWLiteracy)
8:00 AM • Jun 10, 2025
3. 🧐 Practice Tips
4. 🔓 Research
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) may find play and kindness more challenging—but encouraging social engagement can reduce behavioural difficulties in the long run, for all children.
Summary : engage-dld.com/post/play-pros…
Based on: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32497383/— Engage with Developmental Language Disorder (@Engage_DLD)
5:01 PM • Jun 12, 2025
Published at #ESOC2025: ESO's latest guideline on aphasia rehabilitation post-stroke underscores early, intensive, and personalized speech-language therapy to improve communication outcomes.
🔗 ow.ly/gJSb50W3ZnA
#Stroke #Neurology#VoiceOfStroke
— European Stroke Org (@ESOstroke)
4:01 PM • Jun 10, 2025
5. 🔥 NDIS and provider 🔧🔨
6. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!
Watch this clip on two Australian families who shared their stories about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and how current support does not meet their needs. There are different ways to raise awareness of DLD and media coverage can be powerful. #devlangdis #DLDday youtu.be/75jcsjanqR4?...
— RADLD-Raising Awareness for Developmental Language Disorder (@radld.bsky.social)2025-06-11T12:25:31.892Z
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
— Tom Gauld (@tomgauld.bsky.social)2025-06-08T08:17:39.925Z