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Banter Booster #86: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
Vocab & other free resources, NDIS & practice updates, new research & more!
David Kinnane
March 31, 2025
6-BOOSTS TO START YOUR WEEK!
👋🏻 I’m David, and I’m here to help you focus your SLP-energies, while blocking out distractions 🏹 ☺️
1. 🆓 Resources
I bet that sometimes you aren't sure which words are Tier 2 words, or you're not sure which words you should teach your students. Here's a tool that will help!
🔗 tools.achievethecore.org/academic-word-…— Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Podcast (@literacypodcast)
9:15 PM • Mar 24, 2025
How effective are your read-alouds? This rubric from @DFISHERSDSU & @NancyFrey can help you assess student comprehension, vocabulary use, and other key reading skills.
hubs.li/Q039jtQ30— EL Magazine (@ELmagazine)
3:09 PM • Mar 25, 2025
I also made a tense review slide deck a while ago you might like
— Jake (@JakeCowling)
7:54 PM • Mar 25, 2025
2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training
This research gave us lots to think about!
Learning to hand write fluently gives a child a big advantage writes David Kinnane in Nomanis
info.multilit.com/hubfs/Nomanis%…
— five from five (@FIVEfromFIVE)
8:03 PM • Mar 25, 2025
Using sentence stems is a good retrieval practice activity for word learning and sentence level learning. Here are some sentence stems that focus on previously learned vocabulary with a focus on "change of direction" and "emphasis" words like whereas and particularly.
— Sean Morrisey (@smorrisey)
4:32 PM • Jan 20, 2025
3. 🧐 Private Practice Tips
New research shows that fatigue from Teams, Zoom and other virtual meetings is a demonstrable neurological phenomenon. It differs from the fatigue experienced in face-to-face settings (brain images show that). Certain platform features, such as seeing our own faces, makes the
— Helen Bevan (@HelenBevan)
1:07 PM • Mar 21, 2025
4. 🔓 Research
How do children with DLD experience peer interactions?
Read our reader-friendly research summary of the article here: engage-dld.com/post/how-do-ch…
Read the whole article here:journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…
#DevLangDis#ScienceForEveryone#DLD#DevelopmentalLanguageDisorder#PeerInteraction— Engage with Developmental Language Disorder (@Engage_DLD)
1:00 PM • Mar 20, 2025
#ResearchTuesday! #JSLHR study is an important first step toward validating the IC Coding Scale, which measures/tracks intentional communication behaviors in infants at elevated likelihood for #autism. @ASHAJournals@SIGPerspectives@CSDisseminateat.asha.org/Ak
— ASHA (@ASHAWeb)
8:00 PM • Mar 25, 2025
Verbal Fluency Selectively Predicts Survival in Old and Very Old Age - Paolo Ghisletta, Stephen Aichele, Denis Gerstorf, Angela Carollo, Ulman Lindenberger, 2025
— James Booth (@DrJamesBooth)
1:35 PM • Mar 21, 2025
5. 🔥 NDIS and provider compliance 🔧🔨
Victoria's new Psychosocial Regulations: key changes and what employers need to know
#auslaw#PsychosocialRegulations#WorkplaceSafety#MentalHealthMatters#WorkplaceWellbeing #HealthyWorkplace
ow.ly/rbvA50Vl78E— Clayton Utz (@ClaytonUtz)
4:00 AM • Mar 20, 2025
6. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!
A small moment of recognition can make someone's whole day
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3)
6:16 AM • Mar 25, 2025
Students who used ChatGPT felt more confident in their writing but perceived a decrease in their creativity and enjoyment.
While ChatGPT enhances output quality, it may lead to "cognitive offloading" where students bypass the mental effort that traditionally accompanies
— Carl Hendrick (@C_Hendrick)
12:47 PM • Mar 23, 2025