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Banter Booster #55: SPAConf2024 Special Edition!
Useful things for busy speech pathologists.
6-BOOSTS TO START YOUR WEEK!
👋🏻 I’m David, and our team wants to share free, evidence-informed resources to help us all improve our skills and client care 🧾 🆓 🧑🎓
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A bumper edition, thanks to our Senior SLPs, Juliana Li & Sasha Sugita!
1. 🆓Resources
Fantastic resources on speech assessment in multilingual children available from csu.edu.au/research/multi… - information about speech development in a huge number of different languages available from #spaconf
— Emily Dawes (@EmilyDawesSLP)
6:28 AM • May 27, 2024
This looks cool! @NatalieMunro3@DrEliseBaker@SarahMasso@SamuelDCalder
— RosieHodges (@rosiehodgesSLP)
1:51 AM • May 30, 2024
2. 🆓 Technical Skills, & Training
A study by Lennox et al shows that the RAPT missed between 11 and 21% of monolingual students performing below expectations in oral narrative. My take on that is that the RAPT is not a good measure of Oral discourse nor is it Aus nor is it diagnostic.
— Prof Natalie Munro (@NatalieMunro3)
6:09 AM • May 27, 2024
Children’s Speech Develppment Playlist (lots of languages!)
3. 🆓 Practice, Regulation, & Compliance Tips
As part of a joint project between Ahpra & the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, a series of animations for patients, families and carers have been released to help find the right support and resolve issues related to your healthcare experience or outcome
— Ahpra (@Ahpra)
4:20 AM • May 27, 2024
The ability to say 'no' is a superpower.
When we say yes to everything.
We are often left with very limited energy for anything.
It is often a one-way ticket to burnout.
Here's the complete guide to taking back control of your time:
— Chris Donnelly (@donnellycss)
1:00 PM • May 28, 2024
4. 🔓Research
‼️🆕🆓🔓In @ASHAJournals' @SIGPerspectives Brosseau-Lapré & Roepke Preschoolers with more atypical & omission errors are more likely to have weak #PhonologicalAwareness. Some children with mostly substitutions, & many with SSD histories (resolved) do too.
— Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🌻 (@speechwoman)
11:28 PM • May 28, 2024
Rather proud of 100 downloads in about 48 hours - hoping clinicians will find this pre-print useful while it is under review (narrative assessment) #LaLYP
— Suze Leitao (@Suze_Freogirl)
4:18 AM • May 29, 2024
5. 🔥Useful🔧
6. Client perspectives and why I 😍 speech pathology!
Could your toddler finish your sentences?
I just love the game that this mother and son have created - in which 20-month-old Rustyn completes sentences in the voice of his mother.
Most than just a great expressive language activity, the game is a mirror on their tender… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Dan Wuori (@DanWuori)
11:48 AM • May 29, 2024