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Banter Booster #28: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists

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David Kinnane
September 04, 2023

Welcome to Banter Booster! I’m David, and it’s finally spring!

Farewell, winter.

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

  • FREE DLD, behaviour management, and poetry therapy resources

  • FREE training opportunities about Parkinson’s disease and a handy primer on elaboration theory

  • Tool of the week: Criterion-referenced writing assessment/screener and scoring checklist

  • Useful idea: Reading buddies TV on YouTube

  • Private practice tips: how to create a ‘speak up culture’, and run 1-1 meetings with team members

  • Open-access research/summaries: DLD Ax for multilingual children, why we should talk with babies more, and how to improve cough assessments

  • Client and other perspectives on school inclusion, living with DLD, and language learning through play!

Let’s, um, catch ‘em all!

Free Therapy Resources

Free Training Opportunities

Tool of the Week

Think Then Write: Criterion-referenced writing assessment/screener + scoring checklist

Within any class, writing skills vary widely – even into high school. To tailor writing support to each student, and to figure out quickly where a student is at with their writing skills, we’ve developed this short criterion-referenced assessment tool.

banterspeech.shop/products/think-then-write-criterion-referenced-writing-assessment-screener-scoring-checklist

Useful Idea

Private Practice Tips

Creating a speak-up culture in private practice: a 4-step project to improve psychological safety at work | Banter Speech & Language

As a private practice owner, one of my most important jobs is to remove fear from the workplace. To build a culture where everyone on our team feels safe and free to speak their mind. I haven’t always done this well.

www.banterspeech.com.au/creating-a-speak-up-culture-in-private-practice-a-4-step-project-to-improve-psychological-safety-at-work

Open-Access Research & Summaries

Client & other perspectives

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Enjoy some sunshine this week!

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