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Banter Booster #42: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
David Kinnane
February 19, 2024
6-BOOSTS TO START YOUR WEEK!
👋🏻 I’m David, and I want to help you feel better-resourced to help your clients! ⚓️ ⚡️
Yes, you are!
1. 🆓Resources
One of the beautiful resources in the old National Numeracy Strategy was the mathematical vocab booklet. It's still a thing of joy & you can download it here. Some things have shifted yr grps but as progression in mathematical vocab goes, it's still lovely dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/5248…
— Emma Turner FCCT (@Emma_Turner75)
Feb 12, 2024
📣🆓 #aphasia#therapy#resources
Attention: Aphasia clinicians
The Epworth Aphasia Therapy Manual created by Senior Speech Pathologist Lauren Fletcher provides 600 pages of FREE high quality therapy resources for use in the treatment of aphasia!
epworth.org.au/-/media/projec…
— Sam Harvey, PhD (@SRHarvey_)
Feb 14, 2024
2. 🆓 Technical Skills, & Training
Our final #DevLangDis diagnostic module is now available. Presented by
@lilacCourt & Ruth Wallace with input from @MarySpearey. it covers 'DLD & learning.' It's free! Bookmark for later and share with now Twitter/X colleagues too. #LearningTogtherAboutDLDnaplic.org.uk/diagnosing-dld…— NAPLIC (@NAPLIC)
Feb 14, 2024
“Phonics is really a wonderful vehicle for teaching kids the alphabetic principle. But it’s not enough…the brain has to connect the visual system to not only the phonological system but the semantic system, what words mean.” (15:02) @MaryanneWolf_
Maryanne Wolf’s passion for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Mme Lockhart (@MmeLockhartLDSB)
Feb 15, 2024
3. 🆓 Practice Tips
Listen to @cathynewman interview our founder Professor Jean Golding on @TimesRadio: The Ladder 📻
A podcast featuring women who have made it to the very top of their profession - offering advice for young women wanting to follow them 'up The Ladder'.
— Children of the 90s (@CO90s)
Feb 15, 2024
Current journal prompts that are working well:
Morning:
• What’s top of mind?
• What am I excited about?
• What will I get done today?Evening:
• What happened today?
• What were my lessons & realizations?
• What do I want my subconscious to think on overnight?— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush)
Jan 13, 2024
4. 🔓Research
1/ A third of Australian children can’t read proficiently.
Our new report calculates that for the students in school today who are hardest hit by poor reading performance, the cost to Australia is $40 billion over their lifetimes.
A thread on our new report.
— Grattan Institute (@GrattanInst)
Feb 11, 2024
🌟Exciting news! Our article on friendships of children with language disorder is now published by @WileyGlobal. Big thanks to co-author @DrJennyG for her invaluable help!🙌Check it out & let's spread the knowledge💬 #FriendshipResearch#LanguageDisorders@EducationUoE@CamEdFac
— Lenka Janik Blaskova (@LenkaJBExe)
Feb 14, 2024
Seven strategies to support student learning:
▶️ recommendations
▶️ strength of evidence
▶️ checklist twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Carl Hendrick (@C_Hendrick)
Feb 12, 2024
5. 🔥Useful🔧
Now out (yay!) - paper on our new accessible measure of valued living, the VLQ-CS. Hope it's useful for evaluating valued living post-ABI & measuring outcomes of valued living interventions #ACT@dr_epower@KarenBorschmann@david_lawson_@Nicksath
— Dana Wong (@neurodana)
Feb 13, 2024
6. Client perspectives and why I 😍 speech pathology!
Shelbi Annison, an adult with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), has started a podcast. In the first episode, she interviews another adult with DLD, Sophie Franks. Listen to them sharing their lived experiences.
@RADLDcam#DLDday— RADLDcampaign (@RADLDcam)
Feb 14, 2024
Today's Poetry Thread: NAMES
This poem breaks me right open. Feel free to add poems.
— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_)
Feb 11, 2024
I'm honestly impressed that anyone with a non-rhotic British accent could miss it
— Rob (@rob_heighton)
Feb 11, 2024