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Banter Booster #75: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
Helpful resources, free training, NDIS and self-regulation updates, & more!
David Kinnane
November 18, 2024
6-BOOSTS TO START YOUR WEEK!
👋🏻 I’m David, and I want to help you to stay informed, positive, and in-control ℹ️ 😃 👍️
Christmas party season begins…
1. 🆓 Resources
A repost of Tap It! Map it! Write it! Zap it! Chain it! Handout here: drive.google.com/file/d/1rYReP3…
— Pam Kastner (@liv2learn)
9:21 PM • Nov 9, 2024
Looking for ways to support your child's #literacy at home? This resource offers simple, actionable ideas for building emergent literacy, organized by four key building blocks. ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/Produ…
— The FCRR (@TheFCRR)
7:45 PM • Nov 12, 2024
2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training
Exciting news!
The new Sounds-Write Revisited course is now live and free! This is a fantastic opportunity to refresh your initial training.
Log in to the Practitioners' Portal to secure your place >> zurl.co/VQys
Who’s it for? Practitioners who trained in… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— John Walker, Sounds-Write (@SWLiteracy)
8:54 AM • Nov 13, 2024
ASHA warns against RPM or S2C. Article includes a chart comparing FC/RPM to evidence-based AAC.
— Facilitated Communication is Not Science (@FCisnotScience)
9:29 AM • Oct 28, 2024
Reading researcher and expert Timothy Shanahan was questioning “levelled” reading long before school districts and faculties of education were:
“To teach students at their ‘levels’ is to guarantee a lack of adequate reading proficiency by graduation. If low performing… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Mme Lockhart (@MmeLockhartLDSB)
1:18 AM • Nov 13, 2024
3. 🧐 Practice Tips
Great framework to empower people.
— Apprentice: learning how to do things
— Qualified: doing things
— Proven: doing things and making sure they are done well
— Empowered: knowing what needs to be done x.com/i/web/status/1…— Kpaxs (@Kpaxs)
3:52 PM • Nov 9, 2024
Van Gogh, oh boy could the man write
— Dylan O'Sullivan (@DylanoA4)
1:16 PM • Nov 13, 2024
4. 🔓 Research
NEW STUDY! ALERT! Check out our groundbreaking study with face tracking technology to help clinical decision making in motor speech disorders ...the future is now! Published in Sensors November 2024 doi.org/10.3390/s24227…
— aravind (@aravinduft)
7:12 AM • Nov 14, 2024
#openaccess
A little imprecision goes a long way in launching memory development
#infancy#infants#cognitivedevelopment#developmentalpsychology
— Daniela O'Neill (@daniela_oneill)
3:49 PM • Nov 10, 2024
5. 🔥 NDIS and provider 🔧🔨
Another troubling first-hand report from the front-line of NDIS reforms:
It's NDIS story time. This happened today.
This will be a long multi post.
I'm pretty disheartened and upset and will be logging off after I post.
A few months ago, I arranged to get an OT functional capacity assessment for my son, who's currently on NDIS, who's got autism &ADHD— Anthony Bennett (@Anthonydownunda)
1:28 AM • Nov 13, 2024
Never seen a bigger effort to kill one of my reports. NDIS agency refused comment for 8 days, demanded details of individuals I'd spoken to, provided one answer on 'background only' which I've quoted. Scheme eligibility reassessments wrongly cut support.
— Rick Morton (@SquigglyRick)
9:45 PM • Nov 8, 2024
6. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!
I am so inspired to eat a banana today! ❤️
— Katharine Birbalsingh (@Miss_Snuffy)
11:14 AM • Nov 9, 2024
The greatest ever, gets me every time
— Dylan O'Sullivan (@DylanoA4)
1:13 PM • Oct 26, 2024
2025 goal discovered:
It's the anniversary of the greatest diary entry of all time, from Michael Palin.
13 November 1977.
— Michael Glasper (@MichaelCGlasper)
10:16 AM • Nov 13, 2024