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Banter Booster #4: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists
David Kinnane
February 20, 2023
Welcome to Banter Booster! I’m David, and here’s live footage of our receptionist encouraging the NBN guy, Telstra team, and HICAPS consultant to talk to each other so we can process payments:
No one leaves until it all works!
We’ve searched high and low for some useful tools and resources for you this week:
FREE therapy resources, including the much-anticipated National Guideline for Supporting Autistic Children in Australia, and a handy preposition GIF.
FREE training opportunities, including anti-racism materials for SLPs, and a short history of Bliss symbols.
FREE tool of the week: simple sound cards to help young clients distinguish and produce consonants.
Wordless book recommendations for discourse-level language learning
Private practice insights into the trend for investors to “roll up” health practices in the US, procrastination, managing stress, and tackling Dunning-Kruger Effects and the Impostor Syndrome.
Open-access research/summaries on open classrooms, PPA and language assessments.
Strength-based client and family perspectives on speech disorders; as well as remembering Jim Rose and his contributions to evidence-based literacy instruction.
Let’s leap in!
Free Therapy Resources
Today is a big moment!
We have launched the National Guideline for Supporting the Learning, Participation and Wellbeing of Autistic children in Australia. The Guideline is free to download.
A short thread on what to expect 🧵 /1— Andrew Whitehouse (@AJOWhitehouse)
Feb 15, 2023
We are very pleased about these Daily Review decks created with @cecg matched to the fabulous @ShapingmindsAus sequence.
— Ochre Education (@OchreEducation)
Feb 16, 2023
Visualization of preposition...
— Knowledgehub (@KnowIedgepost)
Feb 9, 2023
Free Training Opportunities
Many #SLPs are familiar with #BlissSymbols for people with severe communication impairments, but I wonder how many know the back story behind their development. This is a fascinating, bitter-sweet story. Ping @speechwoman, @SpeechPathAus.
— Pamela Snow (@PamelaSnow2)
Feb 10, 2023
Here are some learning materials collated by @RCSLT in relation to #Antiracism.
#WeAHPs#Equity#Diversity@WeAHPs@thecsp@theRCOT@cspbame@BAMEOTUK@BMEstreetAHPs@BDA_Dietitians@ParamedicsUK
— Justine Musiime - MSc MPH MCSP (@JustineMusiime)
Feb 16, 2023
Tool of the Week
Activity Idea
First blog in absolute ages. This is looking at amazing Wordless picturebooks and how they can encourage children to be brave with language, help them understand often complex narratives and inspire them to write.
Please share your #WordlessWonders
— Simon Smith (@smithsmm)
Feb 12, 2023
Private Practice Tips
A trend to watch for Australia:
Private equity takes over US health care.
In 2021, PE firms invested $206 billion in more than 1,400 health care acquisitions.
What does it really mean?
— PrivateEquityGuy (@PrivatEquityGuy)
Feb 17, 2023
From Napland to Lake Coffee Break!
'A map of procrastination' by contemporary UK illustrator, Gemma Correll #WomensArt#FridayFeeling
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1)
Feb 17, 2023
Feeling anxious? Lisa Kim talks to David Spiegel, MD, about a way to help lower your stress level called cyclic sighing, a controlled breathing exercise that emphasizes long exhalations:
#Stress#Anxiety#MedTwitter— Stanford Medicine (@StanfordMed)
Feb 17, 2023
Dunning-Krueger Effect: thinking you're a master when you don't know very much.
Impostor Syndrome: thinking you're a fraud when you actually know a lot.
The antidote to both: Keep doing.
Doing helps you understand:
• How little you know
• How much you know- Dickie Bush
— GoLimitless (@GoLimitlesss)
Feb 15, 2023
Open-Access Research & Summaries
how do meta-analyses ever conclude anything beyond “the entire literature is very bad and researchers should feel bad”
— Cameron Patrick (@camjpatrick)
Feb 10, 2023
Open-plan classrooms are trendy but there is little evidence to show they help students learn
— Stephen Dinham (@sdinhamunimelb)
Feb 13, 2023
When it comes to assessment, the emphasis is often placed on the WHAT instead of the HOW. I am thrilled to share the R.A.I.S.E. Assessment framework for PPA, developed to address this issue @JadeCartwright@volkmer_anna@AnneWhitworth1@deborahhersh
— Dr. Jeanne Gallée (Jeanne = "sion” in “fusion") (@Jeanne1Gallee)
Feb 10, 2023
This OA 🔓 research note in @IJSLP presents a follow up to our Australian #DevLangDis prevalence estimate where we examined performance on language measures @RaineStudy@cbrennanjones@AJOWhitehouse Monique Robinson @LizzHillSP
— Dr Samuel Calder (@SamuelDCalder)
Feb 14, 2023
Client, family, and other perspectives!
“What’s For Dinner?” 🍽️😄
Our #SpeechAndLanguage journey with the boy hasn’t been easy but there are also moments that make us smile 😊
#SLT support helps make moments like this happen 🙏 @SpeechAndLangUK@RCSLTpolicy#SLTchat
➡️
— Steve Hermon (@SteveHermon)
Feb 13, 2023
Marrying a stutterer changed my life.
Our first date was difficult. I'd forgotten he'd written the word "stutterer" somewhere in his Bumble profile.
We met at the base of a local hike — just as storm clouds were rolling in.
It took at least a minute for him to say "Hello."
— Leslie Sam Kim (@lesliesamkim)
Feb 13, 2023
Very sad to learn that Jim Rose has died. The 2006 Rose Review of the Teaching of Early Reading put in place the foundations for systematic synthetic phonics teaching in England. dera.ioe.ac.uk/5551/2/report.…
— Susan Godsland (@SusanGodsland)
Feb 11, 2023
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