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Banter Booster #1: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists
David Kinnane
January 30, 2023
Welcome back to Banter Booster, our free, weekly newsletter for speech pathologists!
For those who don’t know me, I’m David, and I love hunting for things that make our lives a bit easier in private practice.
Who’s excited for 2023?
Sending my sons back to school…
We’ve collected lots of useful tools and resources for you over the break:
FREE clinical resources
FREE training opportunities
Tool of the week: our fully revised, FREE, launch-to-waitlist private practice book
Useful ideas
Private practice tips
Open-access research/summaries
Perspectives on work and life
Let’s dive straight in!
Free Clinical Resources
*** '7 Helpful Vocabulary Websites' ***
🧵1. Rewordify.com. This tool has lots of uses: 'reword' texts; identify complex Tier 2 vocab; create glossaries; learn new vocab, and more.
rewordify.com
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— Alex Quigley (@AlexJQuigley)
Jan 7, 2023
⚠️Free Primary Mathematics Curriculum⚠️
To support fellow teachers and to help reduce workload, we've released low-variation F-6 Mathematics curriculum documents.
Access them, completely free of charge, via our website:
— Shaping Minds Australia (@ShapingmindsAus)
Jan 16, 2023
Free Training Opportunities
Incorporating Dynamic Assessment to Avoid Standardized Test Pitfalls @SarahMasso@ckingbamford
— Elise Baker (@DrEliseBaker)
Jan 24, 2023
The latest edition of Nomanis is available now, featuring articles on spelling and writing instruction, and the teaching of reading. For more summer reading, check out our picks from 2022.
— MultiLit (@MULTILITmedia)
Jan 9, 2023
Our Tool of the Week
Free. 2nd Edition. Hot off the Presses!
Useful Ideas
Want to upcyle old DVD cases? Turn them into small, carry case whiteboards. Great when working in small group - not scanning 20+ students.
— Caitlin Stephenson (@Cfstep)
Jan 13, 2023
Private Practice Tips
Perfection isn’t just impossible. It’s a counterproductive goal.
Perfectionists are more likely to burn out and less likely to embrace new challenges.
Success depends on high standards, not being flawless. The target is not perfection—it's excellence.
— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant)
May 3, 2022
Click through for more supervision tips!
Open-Access Research & Summaries
**Important paper**
For those interested in both excellence and equity in clinical services for autistic children, this paper by @drmelpenner and colleagues is the early clubhouse leader for the most important paper of the year. 🧵 /1— Andrew Whitehouse (@AJOWhitehouse)
Jan 26, 2023
#OpenAccess#LSHSS tutorial by @KatelynKotlarek & Breanna Krueger provides info on #tre#treatmentategies for speech sound errors in children w/ #Cle#CleftPalateS@UWSpeechImagingu@PhunderLaby@uwyocomdispG@SIGPerspectivesD@CSDisseminatea#AcademicTwitterP#SLPeeps
— ASHA Journals (@ASHAJournals)
Jan 7, 2023
Keep perspective!
saw an australian refer to a documentary as a "docco" and suffered psychic damage. deeply unserious country
— The Cortex Forge (@okSettleDown)
Jan 13, 2023
These two photographs are separated by 66 years...
— LowOrderPrimate (@Loworderprimate)
Dec 29, 2022
Thanks for reading! If you found it useful, please help me get the word out and share it with friends and colleagues!
Keep painting!
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