Welcome to Banter Booster! I’m David, and here’s footage of me badgering my sons to put on more clothes before leaving the house.

“But I don’t want to wear a jumper.”

We’ve stockpiled a heap of useful tools and resources we think you’ll love this week:

  • FREE therapy resources, including LaLYD’s new website, snazzy narrative structure resources, Zoom resources for people who stutter, and simple communication tips to help people who are deaf.

  • FREE training opportunities about phonics, neurodiversity affirming practice, how to deliver practical community support, and tricks to deal with b/d reversals

  • 30 classic outdoor game/activity ideas

  • Private practice tips on clinical systems, listening & feedback, and a terrific resource for job interview questions

  • Open-access research/summaries: autistic perspectives on social communication, reading comprehension, and the ‘social determinants of justice’

  • Client and other perspectives on life

Now we’re warmed up, let’s get to it!

Free Therapy Resources

Free Training Opportunities

Tool of the Week

Check out our blog below for an overview of why sentence combining practice is so useful

Help primary school students learn to write with sentence-combining practice | Banter Speech & Language

Sentence-combining requires students to combine multiple sentences into a single - usually more complex - sentence. There’s good evidence that doing it improves students’ writing skills at sentence and text levels. Why it matters One of the main reasons students go to primary school is to learn to write. If you can’t put your ideas

www.banterspeech.com.au/help-primary-school-students-learn-to-write-with-sentence-combining-practice

Activity Ideas

30 Classic Outdoor Games for Kids

From perennial favorites Hide and Seek, Telephone and Capture the Flag to the less common Blind Man’s Bluff, Spud and Crack the Whip, this list has something for everyone.

www.wired.com/2009/08/simpleoutdoorplay/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=wired

Private Practice Tips

Open-Access Research & Summaries

Perspectives

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