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Banter Booster #90: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
Free resources, NDIS updates, practice tips, new research, & more
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SLP life shouldn’t feel like Mission Impossible!
1. 🆓 Resources
Childhood Apraxia of Speech Awareness Day This is such a super child friendly explanation of CAS, from Kendra Bell-Hayes SLTworking with Aleia's Aim raising awareness for Apraxia of Speech in Australia. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pry...
— Pam Slater (@pamslater26.bsky.social)2025-05-14T13:09:50.188Z
Autism Awareness Australia has created a list of simple and inexpensive workplace accommodations for employees on the autism spectrum.
Learn more at 💻 ow.ly/7C9l50VPJCP
— NDIS (@NDIS)
5:00 AM • May 14, 2025
Parents:
Sidestep all the nonsense about how to teach children to read. Download one of my FREE 300-page phonics books on this topic and teach your child yourself. Just head over to ParkerPhonics.com.
Nearly a quarter million downloads to date.— Stephen Parker (@ParkerPhonics)
1:26 AM • May 11, 2025
Aaron Grossman, 4th grade teacher, talks about how he uses Tim Rasinski's Multidimensional Fluency Rubric.
Here is our latest podcast episode: ow.ly/tL0K50VPUpe
And the rubric! ow.ly/ykpw50VPUpc
— Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Podcast (@literacypodcast)
12:00 PM • May 12, 2025
2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training
What 10 minutes a week can do
Want your students to really learn, not just cram and forget? Mix up topics in quizzes and have them recall from memory. It feels harder — and that's exactly why it works. #RetrievalPractice#Interleaving #EduTwitter— Paul A. Kirschner (@P_A_Kirschner)
6:23 PM • May 9, 2025
New podcast 🚨🚨🚨
Each episode @NathanielRSwain & @msrebeccabirch dissect & analyse real classroom footage, unpacking the teaching moves that make a difference, & connecting them to what we know about how students learn best.— five from five (@FIVEfromFIVE)
8:37 PM • May 13, 2025
3. 🧐 Practice Tips
I’ve gotten am embarrassing amount of leverage out of “I’m afraid. I guess I’ll just do it while afraid” and “this is going to take a long time, but the time is going to pass anyway”
— Nick (@nickcammarata)
4:39 PM • May 13, 2025
If someone takes credit for your idea, respond by saying “thanks for spotlighting my point.”
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz)
7:40 PM • May 10, 2025
4. 🔓 Research
It's National Stuttering Awareness Week! Here Are Some Trending Resources From ASHA Journals:
@SIGPerspectives@CSDisseminate#SLPeeps#NSAW2025 #NSA#WeStutter#StutteringAwareness#slp2b
— ASHA Journals (@ASHAJournals)
7:29 PM • May 12, 2025
www.fasdhub.org.au/fasd-informa... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... #FASD
— Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 (@carolinebowen.bsky.social)2025-05-13T09:34:13.014Z
Very VERY proud to have been part of this incredible piece of work Hundreds of paired and group interactions, exploring the double empathy problem in a large diverse sample.
— Sue Fletcher-Watson (@suereviews.bsky.social)2025-05-14T20:03:05.172Z
5. 🔥 NDIS and provider 🔧🔨
6. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!
*Klaxon alert!* "You can't see DLD" is the theme of this year's developmental language disorder (DLD) day, which is on Friday, 17th October. #SLPeeps #BskySpeechies #DevLangDis
— Nichola Shelton (@nichola-slp.bsky.social)2025-05-14T01:54:52.453Z
National #Stuttering Acceptance Week is May 12-18 #RAW is on so thought I’d share my experience meeting #Bayley @ #SummerSlam Axxess 2019 I showed the 2 words where I stuttered below 👇👇 She did the RIGHT thing, maintained eye contact & had a normal facial expression Meant a lot to me 🥺
— Brian (Stuttering Loudly) (@stutteringloudly.bsky.social)2025-05-13T01:29:34.378Z
Tom Cruise says so many people get paralyzed by decisions. “I tell every single person, it's better to have done it and tried than to just sit there and wish you had… Just keep creating. Don't ask permission to do it. Just do it.” #Cannes2025
— Jada Yuan (@jadabird)
4:45 PM • May 14, 2025