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Banter Booster #83: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
Free resources, NDIS updates, new Delphi paper on dyslexia, and more
David Kinnane
March 03, 2025
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Anything funny happen at school today?
1. 🆓 Resources
I had the opportunity to create 23 FREE and DOWNLOADABLE modules for the teaching of math. Over the next few months, I'll highlight these! First up, place value! Check out these lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards! buff.ly/4bkxpyQ
— Sarah Powell (@sarahpowellphd)
5:00 PM • Feb 25, 2025
Free Explicit Morphology Instruction resource guide for students in Grades 9-12?! YES PLEASE! 🥳
Check out this Intensive Intervention Practice guide from @NCLIILearning:
nclii.org/wp-content/upl…— Mme Lockhart (@MmeLockhartLDSB)
2:36 AM • Dec 12, 2023
2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training
Do your students struggle to talk more about what they are learning? When they DO talk, does it feels surface level? Do you wonder how to bridge thinking and writing with academic talk, but struggle to find ways that work? WE HAVE ANSWERS!
Listen 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mel…
— Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Podcast (@literacypodcast)
12:00 PM • Feb 21, 2025
On Eating Elephants and Teaching Syllabication
shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/on-eating…— Timothy Shanahan (@ReadingShanahan)
2:17 PM • Feb 22, 2025
3. 🧐 Practice Tips
How to handle difficult conversations in your early career, from salary negotiation to solving conflict
— Graeme Innes (@Graemeinnes)
4:03 AM • Feb 25, 2025
People talk about impostor syndrome like it's a bad thing.
I've never met an underperformer who was worried they were an impostor.
It comes with the territory of being excellent at what you do.
Be aware of it, accept it, and carry on.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh)
2:07 PM • Feb 24, 2025
Exceptional leaders understand the nuances of how their people are growing week by week and adjust their actions accordingly.
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz)
12:13 AM • Feb 24, 2025
4. 🔓 Research
I am super excited to say that both of our dyslexia Delphi papers have been published today! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc… and
— Julia Carroll (@JellicleCat)
12:17 PM • Feb 25, 2025
Our recent RCT is out now @GreenJournal!
We investigated whether transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) enhances speech recovery in chronic poststroke aphasia. Our findings suggest a promising role for rTMS as an adjuvant therapy.
@RobotLabUC
— Trevor Low (@Trevorlow_)
12:04 AM • Feb 26, 2025
5. 🔥 NDIS and provider 🔧🔨
Click through for examples of innovative speech therapies in action
Did you know we have a planning meeting checklist? 📝
It has everything you need to help you prepare, including what you should bring to your planning meeting.
Learn more at 💻 ow.ly/I7HF50UZ4FA
— NDIS (@NDIS)
6:00 AM • Feb 20, 2025
6. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!
Possibly the best AAC post of all time: If you or your autistic person use AAC [alternative communication], don't forget to enable descriptions of personal boundaries—because everyone should be able to say "stop" and "F*** off". From Mel Baggs, RIP: ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/c...
— Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (@thinkingautism.bsky.social)2025-02-09T17:54:14.951Z
I needed to hear this: