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Banter Booster #63: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
NDIS updates, free resources, training, research, practice tips, & "tacos of the eye"!
6-BOOSTS TO START YOUR WEEK!
👋🏻 I’m David, and I want to help you sort the signal from the noise 📶 📢
Me reading NDIS reform consultation papers…
1. 🆓 Resources
aphasiatherapyfinder.com contains evidence summaries, resources, how-to videos and more for 25 evidence-based #aphasia treatments.
Registration is free.
An essential item in the aphasia clinician's toolkit.
Please share far and wide!
— Sam Harvey, PhD (@SRHarvey_)
1:37 AM • Aug 7, 2024
Nice little resource for students to help them understand command words in questions. Command words are the words and phrases used in exams and other assessment tasks that tell students how they should answer the question.
Link for printing:
dropbox.com/scl/fi/daskg8o…
— Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 (@ImtaBrendan)
8:49 PM • Aug 3, 2024
What a clear, concise, accurate overview of structured literacy with helpful resources to extend learning at home! Families, Don't Miss it!!
— Pam Kastner (@liv2learn)
8:58 PM • Aug 4, 2024
2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training
A team of top researchers in the US created this video to discuss issues related to the diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD). The issues are relevant internationally too. So check it out and pass it on.
youtube.com/watch?v=A2dQxD…
@RADLDcam#DLDday— RADLDcampaign (@RADLDcam)
1:06 AM • Aug 2, 2024
Looking at improving spelling outcomes in your school, either mainstream or intervention? Join me on Wednesday for an intro to Spelling Mastery Program. I will be sharing tips about implementation and delivery @ThinkForwardEdu
@McGrawHillK12— Jessica Colleu Terradas CF (@JessicaColleu)
10:04 AM • Aug 8, 2024
Should we teach kids to write uppercase or lowercase letters first? What's a good routine for teaching handwriting? IRRC Director @ShawnDatchuk discusses these questions and more on the latest episode of @measuredmom's Triple R Teaching Podcast:
— Iowa Reading Research Center (@IAReading)
8:01 PM • Aug 5, 2024
3. 🧐 Practice Tips
The most powerful productivity hack:
Do fewer things, for longer.
Simple productivity hacks I actually use (that work every time):🧵
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez)
1:34 PM • Aug 6, 2024
4. 🔓 Research
Clear masks don't prevent gains during Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) treatment, #AJSLP researchers find. Mask wearing was, for most, a minor inconvenience that didn't substantially interfere w/ treatment efficacy. on.asha.org/3WTl3rK
@SIGPerspectives#SLPeeps
— ASHA Journals (@ASHAJournals)
1:01 PM • Aug 7, 2024
Professor Mark Boyes, Curtin enAble Institute, spotlights #MentalHealth in the context of #language and #literacy difficulties, including the urgent need for accessible mental health interventions
@me_boyo
— Open Access Gov (@OpenAccessGov)
10:46 AM • Aug 3, 2024
New paper out: The home literacy environment of school‐age autistic children with high support needs - Free access: #homeliteracyenvironment Led by @MWslp@GIER_edu
— Jessica Paynter (@Jess_Paynter)
1:56 AM • Aug 5, 2024
5. 🔥 NDIS and provider 🔧🔨
The NDIA's recent price review did not increase prices for level 2 and 3 therapy supports for the fifth year - a blow for allied health professionals and those receiving their services, as som eare forced to reconsider their futures.
#4abetterNDIS. bit.ly/4fA3u7y— Allied Health Professions Australia (@comms_ahpa)
1:32 AM • Aug 6, 2024
6. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!
👟DO IT FOR DLD at this years Bridge to Brisbane! We would love for you to join our team on Sun 8th of September: bridgetobrisbane.gofundraise.com.au/page/DoitforDLD
@shaunziegenfusz will start training this week. Our goal is to raise $10,000 for #devlangdis research, support services and advocacy.
— The DLD Project (@TheDLDProject_)
7:51 AM • Aug 7, 2024
My second grade teaching friend received these in her mailbox, laminated & *required* for the upcoming school year.
If anyone can figure out what, when, how, and why, that'd be great.
— Megan Gierka (@MeganGierka)
2:21 PM • Aug 7, 2024
In English, a good-looking person might be referred to as “eye candy.” But in Mexico they are more likely to be described as “tacos of the eye” (tacos de ojo)
— Adam Sharp (@AdamCSharp)
8:02 PM • Aug 5, 2024