Welcome to Banter Booster! I’m David, and here’s footage of me walking into our son’s annual school-fundraiser:
Not competitive at all…
We’ve tallied up several rounds of useful tools and resources for you this week:
FREE therapy resources, including new Australian reading fluency passages, useful client posters for DLD outcomes & perinatal-stroke Rx, and a simple syntax explainer
FREE training opportunities, including about reading intervention for older students, explicit instruction about explicit instruction, & spelling
FREE Activity idea: word attack activities for teenagers
Private practice tips on avoiding overwork and burnout, the challenges of working for bosses who have too many ideas (ahem), and professional boundaries in the TikTok era
Open-access research/summaries about music & early communication skills, music & tonal languages, reading models (including Banter’s view), and a new systematic study on the effects of communication interventions on the life quality of people with dementia and their families
Perspectives on work and life, including on failure, SLP personality traits and men without meat!
Let’s dive straight in!
Free Therapy Resources
Free Training Opportunities
Functional Activity Idea
Private Practice Tips
Open-Access Research & Summaries
On a related point, here’s our take on why we prefer the Simple View of Reading:
Keep perspective
I was a bit surprised by these findings about SLPs and personality traits. Perhaps I need to get out more?
In need of a Monday pep talk? This one’s just for you:
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Note to self: For next year’s trivia, learn more about IG influencers!
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