Banter Booster
Posts
Banter Booster #27: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists

Banter Booster #27: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists

David Kinnane
August 28, 2023

Welcome to Banter Booster! I’m David - a bit slow out of the blocks today, still full of ‘weekend cheer’:

No regrets!

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

FREE therapy resources for neurodiversity-affirming language, AAC, personal narratives and teaching name-writing!
FREE training opportunities for vocabulary & comprehension; and music-based interventions for aphasia
Our NEW Tool of the week: Think, then Write 5: Persuasive Writing Foundations
Private practice tips: useful business maxims, and the curse of getting things right first time
Open-access research/summaries about dementia & hydration, and neurodiversity-affirming practices
Client and other perspectives on healthcare access for people who stutter, NAPLAN, politics in SLP, and the plural of mayonnaise!

Quite the mix! Let’s heat up the pan!

Free Therapy Resources

FREE DOWNLOAD | Neurodiversity Affirming Language to Use and NOT Use

Get your free PDF Cheatsheet - Neurodiversity Affirming Language to Use and NOT Use

playlearnchat.ck.page/48f9b202e1

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) | LEADERSproject

Free resources for parents, caregivers and professionals

www.leadersproject.org/intervention-directory/augmentative-and-alternative-communication-aac

Thanks for attending the child language committee talk! @IALPAKL2023#IALP2023 - our handouts are now available! #GlobalTALES CLC Global TALES presentation Handout IALP 2023.pdf osf.io/fy9ca/files/os… via @OSFramework
— Dr Marleen Westerveld (@MWslp)
2:39 AM • Aug 22, 2023

Starting a new year? Teaching Names? Here are a few tips...

In school, children learn to read, spell and write via a phonics programme that gradually and incrementally introduces them to the alphabetic code in manageable steps. They systematically learn the relationship between the 44 sounds (phonemes) in English and the 175 or so letters and letter combinations (graphemes) that represent them. This takes time. At odds with this, one of the first things that teachers and parents want children to do is to learn to read and write their names.

www.phonicsforpupilswithspecialeducationalneeds.com/post/starting-a-new-year-teaching-names-here-a-a-few-tips

Free Training Opportunities

Vocabulary and comprehension: The Heart of the Matter by @margaretmckeow2 is now available here: …adingscienceinschools.squarespace.com/experts-explai…
A huge thanks to Margaret for sharing her time and expertise 👏👏
— Jasmyn (@Jasmyn_K_Hall)
6:15 AM • Aug 20, 2023

Our seminar "Music-based interventions in aphasia rehabilitation" presented by Dr Aleksi Sihvonen is available. Watch now
This presentation discusses music-based interventions aimed at promoting cognitive, verbal & neural rehabilitation in stroke & aphasia
— aphasiacre (@aphasiacre)
1:12 AM • Aug 23, 2023

Tool of the Week

Think Then Write Volume 5

Think, Then Write, Volume 5: an explicit writing program featuring persuasive writing foundations - a step-by-step, illustrated, fully-scripted, and scaffolded guide to help students learn the basics of opinion-piece and essay writing. Our 120+ page no-prep plain English workbook is designed to be useful for older students of all abilities.

banterspeech.shop/products/think-then-write-volume-5

Private Practice Tips

My notes from Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger turned into maxims:
1. Find a simple idea and take it seriously.
2. Good ideas are rare. When you find one bet heavily.
3. Humans have been writing down their best ideas for 5,000 years. Read them.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— David Senra (@FoundersPodcast)
1:30 PM • Aug 19, 2023

It is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.
— Robert Greene (@RobertGreene)
1:00 PM • Aug 22, 2023

Open-Access Research & Summaries

To all #SLTs working with older adults and dementia - some great research going on into hydration in older adults. Fascinating and made me think about differently about my clinical recommendations & personal drinking habits! @Dem@DementiaSLTm@dementiaSLTsl@PalCareCENL@UCLLangCogp
— Dr Anna Volkmer (@volkmer_anna)
3:02 PM • Aug 21, 2023

Essential reading for those @IALPAKL2023 interested in Autism. It’s so important to use #neurodiversity affirming approaches and terminology #IALP this article is open access:
— A/Prof Sarah Verdon (@SV_SLP)
6:59 AM • Aug 23, 2023

Client & other perspectives

Delayed diagnosis, delayed appointments and stress face people who stammer attempting to make a GP appointment. We urge @gmcuk@TheBMA@HealthwatchE@Llais_Wales@PMA_UK_ to consider simple adjustments to GP booking procedures. Here’s another story, lets call them Rian… (1/6)
— STAMMA (@stammer)
2:02 PM • Aug 22, 2023

“Around 27,000 year 3 students (about a third) fell short of expectations in reading. We need to develop a clearer picture of what is holding these students back and target interventions to reach them.” ⬇️
smh.com.au/national/nsw/a…
— Language & Learning (@Lang_LearnSP)
1:43 AM • Aug 23, 2023

Harsha’s answer to my question about SLPs who think politics is not relevant to speech pathology: the values we SLPs assume are apolitical are actually NOT apolitical, there is politics underpinning them #IALP2023
— Vani Gupta /vani/ (@SumSpeech)
12:22 AM • Aug 22, 2023

What's the plural of ‘mayonnaise’? Mayonnaises. Mass nouns may be pluralized when referring to categories. via @BostonGlobe
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker)
12:49 PM • Aug 21, 2023

Thanks for reading this week’s Booster. If you found it useful, please share it with colleagues!

Tuck into your week with gusto!

Was this forwarded to you? I hope you enjoyed it. Sign up here.