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Banter Booster #102: Useful things for busy speech pathologists

Banter Booster #102: Useful things for busy speech pathologists

Free resources, NDIS updates, training opportunities and more!

David Kinnane
September 22, 2025

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What to say to our mirrors on Mondays!

1. 🆓 Resources

I just dropped 6 free morphology workbooks on Teaching by Science.
Check them out and let me know what you think! I will be doing updates, so your feedback will help me improve them over time!
— Nate Joseph (@NateJoseph19)
12:16 PM • Sep 15, 2025

Getting consistent, good quality sleep is vital for children’s development. In this interesting @NipintheBudFilm film, @sianwilliams100 shares some helpful strategies which #Parents and #Carers can use to help children establish a good #Sleep routine. bit.ly/3VA0NtD
— Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (@acamh)
8:55 AM • Sep 14, 2025

#enjoysafemeals #dysphagia #mealtimesafety #safeandenjoyablemeals | Bronwyn Hemsley

Do you work with people who have swallowing difficulty and their families and support workers? Do you teach speech pathologists about swallowing? Here's an animation of the swallow (how we swallow) that you can use when training support workers and people with swallowing difficulty about the sequence of the swallow in a simple way. It's from our #EnjoySafeMeals project so email me if you are training people about swallowing and would like it to be used (funding courtesy of NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 2020-22). #Dysphagia #MealtimeSafety #SafeAndEnjoyableMeals

www.linkedin.com/posts/bronwyn-hemsley-a333b6126_enjoysafemeals-dysphagia-mealtimesafety-activity-7374155340101144577-olrz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training

Last night I delivered the @UTAS_ Sandy Duncanson Social Justice lecture in Hobart. The title was The Reading Crisis We Can Fix. My presentation starts at around 12 mins & goes for 45mins.
Bottom line: #ITE needs to step up. Everyone else is on the bus.
— Pamela Snow (@PamelaSnow2)
5:04 AM • Sep 18, 2025

Science can feel intimidating because it is full of abstract ideas and tricky vocabulary. One way I make it more accessible is through pretraining. 🧵
— Ms. Sam (@SciInTheMaking)
9:34 PM • Sep 16, 2025

Why I’m not a neuro-affirmative professional. Dr Naomi Fisher

I’m often told I’m neuro-affirmative and it has never quite sat right with me. So this weekend I have done a deep dive into neuro-affirmative assessment and therapy. I’ve read all the books which Amazon could provide when I searched for ‘neuro-affirmative’ and ‘psychology’ and now I can say for sure, I’m not a neuro-affirmative psychologist….

www.linkedin.com/posts/naomi-fisher-psychologist_why-im-not-a-neuro-affirmative-professional-activity-7373989197726269440-RF24?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

3. 🔓 Research

🆓🔓 Conlon, C., & Zupan, B. (2025). The training of speech-language pathologists in augmentative and alternative communication: A scoping review. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1–15. doi.org/10.1080/1754... #AugComm 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
— Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 (@carolinebowen.bsky.social)2025-09-16T23:44:36.668Z

New meta-analysis: drawing boosts learning only when pupils are pushed to connect their sketches to the ideas, not when we simply make drawing easier.
Drawing is not automatically “active learning.” Pupils benefit when the task drives them to make the picture and the words
— Carl Hendrick (@C_Hendrick)
10:07 AM • Sep 18, 2025

4. 🔥 NDIS and provider 🔧🔨

Recent changes to the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Framework: Join Allied Health Professions Australia for a webinar to unpack what this means for allied health professionals. |

www.linkedin.com/posts/speech-pathology-australia_alliedhealthprofessional-alliedhealth-chronicdiseasemanagement-activity-7371771769424326656-6ad-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

A tool for managers who supervise senior SLPs.

5. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!

Today is Face It Day - to raise awareness of kids with Childhood Dementia. We were asked this year if we would share our journey and because we know it will help many other families on the journey we have
news.com.au/lifestyle/heal…
— Language & Learning (@Lang_LearnSP)
8:56 PM • Sep 16, 2025

Thanks ⁦@abcnews⁩ for this well-written and thoughtful piece about childhood apraxia of speech. A poorly understood condition with severe impacts on communication, emotional wellbeing, and academic success. Must-read for teachers and SLPs. abc.net.au/news/2025-09-1…
— Pamela Snow (@PamelaSnow2)
3:34 AM • Sep 14, 2025

Now open! Exhibition 14 Sept 2025 - 18 July 2027 at @statelibrarynsw 'The Curious World of Pamela Allen' featuring the art and stories by the inimitable creator of much-loved picture book classics sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/cu…
— National Centre ACL (@NatCentAusChLit)
6:28 AM • Sep 17, 2025

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— Aimie G (@xAimieCrewex)
8:24 PM • Sep 16, 2025