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Banter Booster #103: Useful things for busy speech pathologists

NDIS & SLP regulatory updates, free resources & training, children's book controversies, & more!

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David Kinnane
October 13, 2025

5-BOOSTS TO START YOUR WEEK!

👋🏻 I’m David, and we’re back for term 4 with our final Booster series for 2025!  🟠 

Stay strong & hopeful hearted!

1. 🆓 Resources

Pleased, and a little surprised, that this book has been downloaded over 200,000 times as a free PDF. That's just a number. What matters is how colleagues are using these ideas to make a difference for children and families. Thank you for reading, sharing and discussing. development-matters.org.uk

— Dr Julian Grenier CBE (@juliangrenier.bsky.social)2025-09-27T06:36:45.524Z

2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training

GLP_NLA_Systematic_Review_RCSLT_SlideSet | Bronwyn Hemsley

Our slides for #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition updated with some info about our meta-narrative review (in preparation - analysis phase). Lucy Bryant and I presented this on 2nd October 2025 to 1206 Speech & Language Therapists, the vast majority of whom reported not having read our (free) online systematic review report in full - emphasising the importance of research translation via online webinar format.

www.linkedin.com/posts/bronwyn-hemsley-a333b6126_glpnlasystematicreviewrcsltslideset-activity-7382170241121927168-M4Lg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

3. 🔓 Research

🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context 🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier. 📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇

— Dr Elsje van Bergen (@drelsje.bsky.social)2025-10-06T10:03:29.257Z

“I Just Want Him to Be Understood”: Parent Perspectives of the Long-Term Desired Outcomes and Experiences of Early Intervention for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech | Tricia McCabe

We talked to parents of children with childhood #apraxia of speech in two countries about early intervention. … Here's what the parents said #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/g2ATmWmA

www.linkedin.com/posts/tricia-mccabe-apraxia_i-just-want-him-to-be-understood-parent-activity-7381847799430250496-7AoZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

— Bethany Brookshire (@beebrookshire.bsky.social)2025-09-26T17:58:43.932Z

4. 🔥 NDIS and provider 🔧🔨 

Speech pathology regulation in Australia: progress, but more work to be done |

Back in the news: On 12 September 2025, Health Ministers released a communique, rekindling conversations about speech pathology regulation in Australia. Here’s what I think about it.

speechiesinbusiness.com/business-tips/speech-pathology-regulation-in-australia-progress-but-more-work-to-be-done

APA putting their (not insignificant) money where their mouth is. More of this from the Peaks. Please. | Chantelle Robards

www.linkedin.com/posts/chantellerobards_physiotherapy-practices-are-under-growing-activity-7381585278307659776-_vaU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

So what fresh hell is being unleashed on us all this morning?

Well first we have Rick Morton’s take on the…needs assessment and selection of the I-CAN tool. …But secondly the article also references the final therapy supports operational guideline and I quote “The announcement of the new assessment tool comes as the National Disability Insurance Agency is expected to release its new therapy support guideline. The guideline, seen by The Saturday Paper, will now prevent participants from using NDIS funds to gather reports from treating therapists – an expensive exercise – by making these funds “stated” amounts in their plans. Under the NDIS legislative reform, stated supports can only be spent as directed by the agency.”

www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-collison-verve-ot_so-what-fresh-hell-is-being-unleashed-on-activity-7380024056781209600-XCgc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

5. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!

Even if a classic children’s book is considered ‘problematic’ by some, I think it’s a terrible idea to rewrite the ending! What do you think?

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