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Banter Booster #2: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists
David Kinnane
February 06, 2023
Welcome to this week’s Banter Booster! I’m David, and here’s live footage of my two best brain cells as I sip my first coffee today:
Shape of…a functional SLP!
Apart from caffeine, how do you pull yourself together for your first session of the week? Hit reply and let me know! (I’ll share the best responses next week.)
We’ve collected lots of useful tools and resources for you this week:
FREE therapy resources for literacy and study skills
FREE training opportunities for higher level language, spaced practice, and vocabulary
Tool of the week: No-prep, high-frequency prefix workouts
Useful activity ideas for writing and shared book reading
Private practice tips to help us say “no” more often
Open-access research/summaries, including a new ELVS study on parent responsiveness with toddlers and later language outcomes; conversation analysis; and an interesting take on classroom displays
Perspectives on work and life, including an unprovoked attack on some of my most-used idioms!
On with the show!
Free Therapy Resources
I have updated the Teaching by Science free SOR resources page. If you like free stuff check it out. It includes programs for phonics, morphology, vocabulary, and grammar, as well as assessments and decodables:
— Nate Joseph (@NateJoseph19)
1:57 PM • Jan 18, 2023
Past-paper practice is exactly what exam-level students need.
Just remember the four R's:
📚 Reviewing
📚 Revising
📚 Retrieval
📚 RepetitionRead more here:
— Richard James Rogers (@richardjarogers)
10:38 AM • Jan 26, 2023
Free Training Opportunities
🚨New paper: The effect of spacing versus massing on orthographic learning Spacing boosts orthographic form learning relative to massing across three outcome measures @Huachen_Wang Lisi Beyersmann Erik Reichle @ReadOxford@annecastles
@MQCReading@PsyMQ
— Signy Wegener (@SignyWegener)
5:03 AM • Jan 18, 2023
🎙️ New: “Evidence into Action” returns!
In the latest episode of our podcast, we focus on vocabulary and language development.
Featuring @ally_wren, @ricketts_lara and @Marcusjones900
Listen now: eef.li/1H2HA1
— EEF (@EducEndowFoundn)
7:00 AM • Jan 24, 2023
Tool of the Week
Useful Ideas
Three language games.
— Pie Corbett (@PieCorbett)
5:11 PM • Jan 7, 2023
Talk for writing is a key part of our writing cycle ✍️ It helps embed writing skills and allows for creativity in the children’s innovative re-write. My class love becoming authors by changing the nouns, adjectives and adverbs in their own narratives #talkforwriting@PieCorbett
— Danielle Hartstone 🇦🇪 (@MissDHartstone)
5:03 AM • Feb 2, 2023
Private Practice Tips
75 ways to say NO.
Personal favourite: 57Sorry, I can’t. I have to walk my unicorn.— Hugh Kearns (@ithinkwellHugh)
10:44 PM • Jan 29, 2023
Open-Access Research & Summaries
New publication using ELVS data shows consistently high responsive parental behaviours across infancy and toddlerhood are related to better child language outcomes in the early school years @paeadie@cristina_mckean
— Dr Penny Levickis (@penzyl)
7:10 AM • Feb 2, 2023
Interesting blog on how classroom displays can distract.
Children were more distracted by the visual environment, spent more time off task, and demonstrated smaller learning gains when the walls were highly decorated than when the decorations were removed.
blog.innerdrive.co.uk/classroom-disp…— Paul A. Kirschner (@P_A_Kirschner)
7:45 AM • Feb 2, 2023
Our new OA article with Niels Buus and @ScottBarnesMQ now out in @FamilyProcess! The Open Dialogue approach advises therapists to repeat clients' prior talk to encourage elaboration. But repeats do much more than that!
— Ben Ong (@BenHLOng)
10:13 PM • Jan 31, 2023
Keep perspective
That thing where you learn one relatively small fact about a person you didn’t know very well and the entire nonsense backstory you’d told yourself about them is flipped on its head
— Lucy Wainwright (@Whoozley)
10:42 PM • Jan 31, 2023
"Nothing really wonderful in your life, professionally or personally, will happen unless you subject yourself to an uncomfortable risk."
@profgalloway— Content Philosopher ☕ (@Wizbit_io)
7:01 PM • Jan 26, 2023
Stone the crows! Not sure what to make of this war on ‘violent’ idioms! “Feed two birds with one scone?”
I’ll take a stab at this pointless language policing to suggest that there is no evidence of any kind that this has any discernible, measurable impact on anything, and can be ignored.
— Tom Bennett OBE (@tombennett71)
8:35 AM • Feb 1, 2023
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Stay weird - & RIP to the OG W. Addams!
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