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Banter Booster #92: Useful things for busy speech pathologists

Banter Booster #92: Useful things for busy speech pathologists

Free resources, useful training, interesting research, NDIS updates, & more!

David Kinnane
June 09, 2025

6-BOOSTS TO START YOUR WEEK!

👋🏻 I’m David, and I’m keen to reduce the amount of time we all spend reinventing wheels 🎡

What I used to tell myself (foolishly), as I wasted energy on things that didn’t matter to clients, colleagues, or outcomes!

1. 🆓 Resources

Enjoy the free download!

Did you know that May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month? Learn all about expected communication milestones between birth and five years. Use these checklists to track your child's development #nslhmcontestsot.ag/pqPjn
— Ahmed Hamza 🗣️🧠🦻🌍🧩⚡ (@AhmedHamza_SLT)
2:39 PM • Jun 4, 2025

Australia has a maths problem, and it starts in primary school.
The good news is, there are practical steps principals and teachers can take to turn this around.
Our new guide by @hunter_jordana@Amy_L_Haywood Daniel Petrie & @NickJParkinson shows how. buff.ly/Eu1yid4
— Grattan Institute (@GrattanInst)
11:01 AM • Jun 1, 2025

It’s a Marvelous Monday to access an exceptional resource from the Center Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU): Decoding Tips for Parents: 5 Common Word Reading Errors and How to Help.
These tips are helpful for
— Pam Kastner (@liv2learn)
2:45 PM • Jun 3, 2025

2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training

Free important content exploring the ins and outs of OMT evidence (shared by Tricia McCabe)

Free important content exploring the ins and outs of OMT evidence. A Must read!

www.linkedin.com/posts/tricia-mccabe-5ab49330_slpeeps-medslp-pedslp-activity-7335592075058417664-9Dqr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

Interested in the International Journal of Eating Disorders new consensus paper on pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)?
— ASHA (@ASHAWeb)
5:01 PM • Jun 4, 2025

3. 🧐 Practice Tips

Presentations rise or fall depending on the quality of the idea, the narrative, and the passion of the speaker. It’s about substance, not speaking style or multimedia pyrotechnics.
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz)
9:49 AM • Jun 4, 2025

4. 🔓 Research

Developmental Language Disorder

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a communication disorder that interferes with learning, understanding, and using language. These language difficulties are not explained by other conditions, such as hearing loss or autism, or by extenuating circumstances, such as lack of exposure to language. DLD can affect a child’s speaking, listening, reading, and writing. DLD has also been called specific language impairment, language delay, or developmental dysphasia. It is one of the most common developmental disorders, affecting approximately 1 in 14 children in kindergarten. The impact of DLD persists into adulthood.

www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/developmental-language-disorder

Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
— Riccardo Fusaroli (@fusaroli.bsky.social)2025-05-21T13:46:23.416Z

New paper from Laura Lewis and Jan Engelmann et al. (including me) with a clever new method. Chimps and kids will forgo reward to get a chance to look at social interactions royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
— Alison Gopnik (@alisongopnik.bsky.social)2025-06-04T17:19:03.882Z

5. 🔥 NDIS and provider 🔧🔨

🚨 Discrepancies in NDIA Impairment Categories Guidance 🚨 Sarah Collison - Verve OT

🚨 Discrepancies in NDIA Impairment Categories Guidance 🚨 I’ve uncovered a concerning issue — the NDIA’s internal impairment mapping document lists different impairment categories for certain disabilities than those found in the public-facing “Applying to the NDIS” Operational Guidelines. How do we — or even the NDIA — know which document has the correct information? Can someone please explain?

www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-collison-verve-ot_discrepancies-in-ndia-impairment-categories-activity-7324911959361867776-Cnze?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

6. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!

💬 New Post: Rewards of Parenting a Child with DLD
Being a parent to a child with DLD comes with unique joys — from celebrating progress to seeing their creativity and determination.
Read the summary: engage-dld.com/post/parenting…
Original study: doi.org/10.1111/1460-6…
#DevLangDis
— Engage with Developmental Language Disorder (@Engage_DLD)
7:02 PM • Jun 5, 2025

I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
— Paulrus of West Bumblefrick (@paulrusof.bsky.social)2025-06-04T01:43:38.684Z