Welcome to Banter Booster! Iā€™m David, and itā€™s finally spring!

Farewell, winter.

Weā€™ve collected lots of useful tools and resources for you this week:

  • FREE DLD, behaviour management, and poetry therapy resources

  • FREE training opportunities about Parkinsonā€™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 ā€˜speak up cultureā€™, 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!

Letā€™s, um, catch ā€˜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 ā€“ 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, weā€™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 havenā€™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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