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Banter Booster #11: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists

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David Kinnane
April 24, 2023

Welcome back to another season of Banter Booster - our free newsletter just for speech pathologists! I’m David, and here’s how I imagined our school-holiday family road trip would go:

Toot, toot, chugga, chugga…

We’ve packed the boot with bags of useful tools and resources for you this week:

  • FREE therapy resources, including a DLD Toolbox, study tips for older students, and lactation treatments

  • FREE training and learning opportunities about the NDIS, neurodivergent-affirming report writing, and phonological terms

  • Tool of the week: functional communication probes for young school-aged children

  • Activity idea: 1-page ‘quickstart’ board game instructions

  • Private practice tips on partnerships and presentations

  • Open-access research/summaries on DLD genetics and terms, and hearing aids and dementia

  • Client and other perspectives on dyslexia, friendship, and giving children chances to succeed (and fail) independently

Let’s lane-change into some good content!

Free Therapy Resources

A treasure trove of FREE videos from a lactation expert:

Dr. Evelyn Jain

Dr. Evelyn Jain, BA, BSc, MD, FCFP, FABM ​ Dr. Jain is a family Physician and Lacation Specialist in Calgary, Canada. She is Director of the Breastfeeding Clinic at Richmond Square Medical Centre, a referral centre for more difficult breastfeeding problems. The clinic is an education centre for health professionals involved in lactation. ​ Dr. Jain is a Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. She has published research on breastfeeding and has written many articles in the professional and lay press. An internationally known speaker, she gives presentations to health professionals on Tongue Tie and other aspects of breastfeeding.

www.youtube.com/@dr.evelynjain894

Free Training & Learning Opportunities

Tool of the Week

(L427) Functional Communication Probes for Young School-Aged Children | Banter Speech & Language

Standardised test results don’t tell us how a child functions in the real world or how communication problems may affect his or her quality of life and participation. We developed this functional communications probe in-house to help us to get a better idea of young school-aged students’ oral language abilities across a range of tasks, including answering questions, requesting, protesting, following instructions, describing objects, explaining cause-effect relationships, outlining procedures, predicting consequences, having conversations, story-telling, personal recounts, problem solving and choice-making. While not designed for diagnostic purposes, these probes help us to look at a student’s language use across a range of tasks that emulate the types of activities young school-aged children engage in at home, school and in the community. In practice, we’ve also found this tool helps us to support families to identify goals that matter most for them and their child; and to see progress.

www.banterspeech.com.au/product/l427-functional-communication-probes-for-young-school-aged-children

Activity Idea

Private Practice Tips

Open-Access Research & Summaries

Client & other perspectives

 

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