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Banter Booster #34: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
6-BOOST MONDAY!
👋🏻 I’m David, and I want to help you to become a braver, less stressed-out speech pathologist 🚀👋

Thanks, as always, to SLPs and others who are sharing useful things!
1. 🆓Resources
I just have created a “higher level” yet modified UFLI home practice with word work chains for students who need more than just letters/sounds (from my original slidedeck).
— Jenni vanRees (@jennivanrees)
8:24 PM • Nov 3, 2023
Going right back to basics with my y5/6s after a thorough assessment of their writing last term. Loved the idea from @hiasenglish to represent sentences as diagrams so I’ve adapted this again from a few years ago to give a crack next week
— Sophie Bartlett (@_MissieBee)
4:55 PM • Oct 29, 2023
Have you checked out Problem Solvers yet?
This free early math curriculum provides early educators with a set of 22 age-appropriate, play-based activities designed to introduce math concepts.
Download it today: bit.ly/3JXkiXE
— ZERO TO THREE (@ZEROTOTHREE)
8:29 PM • Oct 29, 2023
2. 🆓 Training
We've created our DLD diagnosis modules to be flexible, so you can watch and embed the skills over time. Check them out, they're free and developed by experts. naplic.org.uk/diagnosing-dld…#DevLangDis
— NAPLIC (@NAPLIC)
11:14 AM • Nov 3, 2023
📻PODCAST ALERT!
🗣️Director of OxEd and UCL lecturer, Dr Gillian West, spilled the 'tea' 🍵 on oral language on 'The Education Audiocast'. In only 13 minutes, find out why oral language is critical to development and what teachers and parents can do to support it ⬇️
— OxEd and Assessment (@OxEdAssessment)
11:05 AM • Oct 24, 2023
Excited to share this discussion with the amazing @literacypodcast on #DevLangDis. On average, there are 2 kids with DLD in each classroom. Listen to learn more! @RADLDcam@TheDLDProject_@Engage_DLD@DLDandMe
— Tiffany Hogan (@tiffanyphogan)
11:59 AM • Nov 3, 2023
3. 🆓 Practice Tips
How to analyze an income statement, FAST.
Study these 7 infographics:
1: Income Statement Overview
— Brian Feroldi (🧠,📈) (@BrianFeroldi)
1:01 PM • Oct 29, 2023
The trouble with society is that the most reasonable people are also the most quiet.
— Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh)
3:44 PM • Nov 3, 2023
Kaizen is Japanese philosophy that refers to the approach of creating continuous improvement based on the idea that small, ongoing positive changes can reap significant improvements.
‘Kai’ meaning ‘change’ and ‘zen’ meaning ‘good’.
— Aaron (@IAmAaronWill)
10:37 AM • Nov 4, 2023
4. 🔓Research
Thrilled to have my next #SLPhD paper published in @ijlcd! #OpenAccess
I remembered the chorm! Word learning abilities of children with and without phonological impairment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
With @DrEliseBaker@NatalieMunro3@mcgregor_karla Ron Pomper & Jan Edwards— Steph Hearnshaw (@stephspeechie)
10:26 AM • Oct 31, 2023
In Why Don't Students Like School? I said stories are "psychologically privileged." Much work since, confirming robustness of the effect--stories are easier to understand and remember. (Usual comparison = expository essay.) Here's a recent meta-analysis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33410100/
— Daniel Willingham 🦆 (@DTWillingham)
9:05 AM • Nov 2, 2023
Delighted to share our latest paper, a systematic review of ICAPs (intensive comprehensive #aphasia programmes). Open access (free to read). Please contact me with your thoughts. with @MadelineCruice@LucyDipper & Prof Jane Marshall @CityLCS
— Katie Monnelly (@KatieMonnelly)
11:52 AM • Nov 2, 2023
5. 🔥Useful🔧
6. Why we 😍 speech pathology & language!
How hard is it to learn a new language?
The US State Department places languages into four tiers based on how long it is takes to learn: from 24 to 88 weeks.
Per The Economist, difficulty for English-first speakers is determined by:
▫️Different writing system: the hardest… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan)
3:27 PM • Nov 2, 2023
A very SLT specific one but it made me laugh!
@RCSLT@wespeechies— Charlotte Colesby (@SLTManager)
11:48 AM • Nov 3, 2023
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