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Banter Booster #20: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists
Welcome to Banter Booster - our season finale! I’m David, and here’s how I felt reading the NDIS Pricing Arrangements for 2023-24:
Still committed to positive vibes, but…sigh.
We’ve collected lots of useful tools and resources for you this week:
FREE therapy resources, including a literacy screener, reading fluency norms, “cyber ability” training for people with ABI, and a bilingualism support package
FREE training opportunities, including a cranial nerve showstopper, DevLangDis training, and a cognitive science primer educators
Tool of the week: Sentence-Combining Writing Practice for Relative Clauses
Activity resources for Future Farmers
Private practice tips on good supervision, burnout, and digital literacy
Open-access research/summaries about late-talkers, and DLD Ax and psychosocial difficulties
Perspectives on work and life, including a heartwarming, comedic baby!
Let’s wade in!
Free Therapy Resources
New blog post with links to free AUSPELD online screening tool, Understanding Learning Difficulties for Parents site, & information about how many words per minute we can usually read at different ages. Slow reading suggests further assessment is needed. httpspelfabet.com.au/2023/06/does-t…
— Spelfabet (@spelfabet)
12:52 AM • Jun 22, 2023
played one of @THINKFULLY_ videos about the cyber ability training. Such a great resource!
cyberability.org.au
#CCDSymp2023
— Dr Nicholas Behn (@NicholasBehn)
9:11 AM • Jun 22, 2023
Supporting Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Language Learning in the Early Years is a resource developed by The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. See more about this resource here: bit.ly/44aaFws
— ACECQA (@ACECQA)
5:45 AM • Jun 20, 2023
Free Training & Learning Opportunities
Those who willingly share their ideas will always have more.
Those who hide their ideas only have a few.
— Nicolas Cole 🚢 (@Nicolascole77)
11:00 PM • Jun 22, 2023
Having trouble remembering your cranial nerves? Check out this clip from @UniCanberra Masters of Speech Path students. How talented and creative are our students! Hello (Cranial Nerves Song) youtu.be/1CwZYrui3Uo via @YouTube
— Michelle Lincoln (@MichelleLincol6)
11:45 PM • Jun 19, 2023
Speech and Language Therapists! Summer is the perfect time for a bit of #DevLangDis CPD. Watch our FREE online learning modules with colleagues and develop confidence with diagnosing DLD. naplic.org.uk/diagnosing-dld…
— NAPLIC (@NAPLIC)
3:52 PM • Jun 22, 2023
‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ by Daniel Willingham is one of the most influential books for teachers on cognitive science. It explores how students’ minds work & how to use this knowledge to be a better teacher.
🪡 THREAD. Here are some ‘brain bites’ I took away from it… http
— Jamie Clark (@XpatEducator)
4:40 AM • Jun 24, 2023
Tool of the Week
Functional Activity Idea
Discover a wonderful classroom resource that puts a spotlight on young #farmers. #FutureFarmers#farming#agriculture
— ABC Education (@ABCEducationAU)
10:00 PM • Jun 16, 2023
Private Practice Tips
Great to see our work on effective supervision has been useful and having impact across different organisations👌 always nice to see policy change and improvement from your research 🙏🏻 @HPEU_HYMS@The_HCPC
— Millie Kehoe (@Mildredkehoe)
7:08 AM • Jun 17, 2023
#DigitalHealth tools have proliferated in recent years, but #regulatory questions remain. Two recently published frameworks aim to support #healthcare organizations as they navigate the changing technological landscape. Our alert takes a closer look. #AI
dlap.pr/Q1kzVFoP91aAsD…
— DLA Piper (@DLA_Piper)
11:00 PM • Jun 22, 2023
Burnout isn't simply about being tired. Before jumping to conclusions and quitting your job, examine the various reasons you could be at boiling point.
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz)
5:51 AM • Jun 23, 2023
Open-Access Research & Summaries
Thanks to the conversation for asking me to write this - I had lots of fun :)
— Suzanne Meldrum (@SuzanneMeldrum1)
2:57 AM • Jun 23, 2023
What language measures do SLP's use most regularly??
Look! Some important clinical considerations for child language assessment in this new #openaccess paper by @jaehyunkim240, @NatalieMunro3, @ReinieCordier, Renee Speyer, & myself. #Dev#DevLangDispp
— Dr. Deb Denman (@deb_denman)
8:08 AM • Jun 18, 2023
Excited to share our study representing first-person perspectives on the psychosocial difficulties experienced by those with Developmental Language Disorder during childhood! #DLD#DevLangDis#SLI link.springer.com/article/10.100…
— Annabel Burnley (@AnnabelBurnley)
10:34 AM • Jun 20, 2023
Perspectives
Get a load of this joyful little comedian!
Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) recently created the Early Humor Survey to explore how humor develops in very young children.
They found that roughly half of the babies in the tool’s data set showed an appreciation for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Dan Wuori (@DanWuori)
12:52 PM • Jun 24, 2023
How often do staff talk about "the person in bed..." or "the person with ..." As soon as we have a diagnosis we lose our sense of self - Dr Tim Feeney #CCDSymp2023
— Brainy Speech Therapists (@BrainySLT)
8:20 AM • Jun 23, 2023
released an article that gives insight into the high costs of excluding people with disability. The article outlines three types of costs: economic, political and social cost. You can read the complete article here: loom.ly/11VelI8 #IncludeAbility
— IncludeAbility (@IncludeAbility)
5:00 AM • Jun 23, 2023
Thanks for reading this week’s Booster. We’ll be back in three weeks!
Pictured: juggling EOFY, kids, and life during school hols!
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