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Banter Booster #24: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists
David Kinnane
August 07, 2023
Welcome to Banter Booster! I’m David, and I’m unnaturally excited to report a new takeaway shop has opened just up the road!
Our next big budget Banter Team meal!
We’ve assembled lots of useful tools and resources for you this week:
FREE therapy resources, including free ebooks and audiobooks, reading instruction tips for teachers, one-page visual explainers for cognitive load theory and more
FREE AAC and Aphasia training opportunities
Tool of the week: Think, then Write 3: short multi-paragraph reports
Useful idea: comfort book suggestions!
Private practice tips: early career advice and public funding models for private practice
Open-access research/summaries about writing assessments, the limitations of domain-specific DLD assessments, and choking risks
Perspectives on work and life, including on AI vs human speech, language & reading skills, and Wugs!
Let’s chop, shred, slice and cook (as if I know how)!
Free Therapy Resources
Did you know you can access 25,000+ ebooks and audiobooks for free through #indyreads? Here's how! #LIW2023#NSWPublicLibraries
More info: ow.ly/BXwW50Prugf
— State Library of NSW (@statelibrarynsw)
Aug 5, 2023
Free Training Opportunities
Free online AAC and voice banking training from @mndassoc ALL welcome! Bank your own voice in 3 apps just as your clients could. Learn about 12 free apps for communication including dysarthric speech recognition. Pls shr thx!
One-click registration here: mnd.eventsair.com/aac-training-s…— Richard Cave 🇺🇦 (@speedoftrust27)
Jun 30, 2023
This will be great!! #aphasia#cogcomm
— Leanne Ruggero, PhD (@Leanne_J_R)
Aug 2, 2023
Tool of the Week
Useful Idea
Comfort books - for children and adults!
As I am currently under the weather, what are some of your favorite comfort stories?
(illustration by Anastasia Wessex)— Into The Forest Dark (@ElliottBlackwe3)
Jul 31, 2023
Private Practice Tips
A 22-year-old follower recently messaged me asking for career advice.
Here are the 5 pieces of advice I shared:
1. Swallow the Frog: This is one of the greatest "hacks" to get ahead early in your career. Observe your boss, figure out what they hate doing, learn to do it, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom)
Aug 4, 2023
Huge thanks to coauthors/supervisors for supporting this qual study. Australian #funding#privatepractice#slpeeps#slp2b
— Tristan Nickless (@tristo_talk)
Aug 4, 2023
Open-Access Research & Summaries
In this article, we share 10 evidence-based practices we apply in our practice when assessing a student’s #writing. We’ve included links, references & resources you can use to explore the topic in more detail: httpbit.ly/3qgj03ti#writingassessmentsp#slpeepsP#SLP2Bp
— Banter Speech (@BanterSpeech)
Aug 1, 2023
"Domain-specific language assessments, particularly those testing receptive vocabulary, may overestimate the language ability of children with DLD."
How we measure language skills of children at scale: A call to move beyond domain-specific tests... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
— Tiffany Hogan (@tiffanyphogan)
Jul 23, 2023
Death by choking on food: A new review of coronial findings,
— Dr Michelle Cimoli (@MichelleCimoli)
Aug 4, 2023
Client & other perspectives
Delighted to have the opportunities to present our @SwallowVision project today and discuss how #ultrasound can potentially be used in #swallowing#assessment in the future clinical practice.
@CASL_QMU— Joan Ma (@DrJoanMa1)
Aug 4, 2023
I can't stop staring at this chart
People have no idea how wild it's about to get
— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes (@AISafetyMemes)
Aug 3, 2023
It has officially been 65 years since the Wug Test revealed kids' natural grasp of language rules. Happy wugiversary
— depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki)
Aug 1, 2023
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