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Banter Booster #25: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists

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David Kinnane
August 14, 2023

Welcome to Banter Booster! I’m David, and I’m still recovering from the Matildas’ amazing penalty shoot out on Saturday!

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We’ve collected lots of useful tools and resources for you this week:

  • FREE therapy resources, including book recommendations sorted by language & speech goal, a practical demo of word-building, and tips to support people with dementia

  • FREE training opportunities, including a cleft palate assessment tutorial, and a terrific reflective practice resource

  • Tool of the week: Think, then Write 4: Narrative Writing

  • Useful idea for babies & late talkers: “serve and return”

  • Private practice tips on executing projects, burnout & better communication

  • Open-access research/summaries on language disorder prevalence, & an online conversation-skills ABI intervention

  • Client & other perspectives on intellectual disability, autism, & the history of the ampersand

Let’s end the suspense!

Free Therapy Resources

Easily Find Great Children's Books for Speech and Language Development

Find some of the best children's books for speech therapy. All books are compiled by a Speech Pathologist and grouped by language areas, speech sounds, themes and ages.

booksharetime.com

Free Training Opportunities

Reflective practice - Clinical Excellence Commission

Reflective practice is a process of thinking clearly, honestly, deeply, and critically about any aspect of our professional practice.

www.cec.health.nsw.gov.au/improve-quality/teamwork-culture-pcc/teamwork/reflective-practice

Tool of the Week

Think Then Write Volume 4

Think, Then Write, Volume 4: structured writing program, scripted and structured to teach students of different abilities to understand, think about, tell, and then write stories. Over 120 pages made up of ten modules including evidence-based scaffolds, models, visual prompts, and ideas to teach and practice the “story

banterspeech.shop/products/think-then-write-volume-4

Useful Idea

Private Practice Tips

Open-Access Research & Summaries

Developing a Digital Health Intervention for Conversation Skills After Brain Injury (convers-ABI-lity) Using a Collaborative Approach: Mixed Methods Study

Conclusions: This study presents the outcome of using the IDEAS framework to guide the development of a web-based multimodal CPT intervention with input from key stakeholders. The results indicate promising outcomes for improving the conversation skills of people with ABI and their CPs. Further evaluation of intervention effectiveness and efficacy using a larger sample size is required.

www.jmir.org/2023/1/e45240

Client & other perspectives

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