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Banter Booster #95: Useful things for busy speech pathologists
NDIS reform updates and tips, resources, training and more!
5-BOOSTS TO START YOUR WEEK!
👋🏻 I’m David, and we’re back for Season 10 of the Booster! ⚡️

Congrats for powering on through this NDIS reform-storm. Keep going!
1. 🆓 Resources
Next on our resources recommendation list is the National Early Language and Communication (NELC) website: tinyurl.com/58yjknmh
Check out the "Chatting Together messages" for ideas to support communication from before babies are born right up until starting school!
#sltfv— NHS Forth Valley Speech & Language Therapy (@slt_fv)
9:00 AM • Jul 15, 2025
Summer task for Speech and Language Therapist who want to build confidence with diagnosing DLD. Gather some colleagues and watch and discuss these FREE modules. #DevLangDis www.naplic.org.uk/diagnosing-d...
— NAPLIC (@naplic.bsky.social)2025-07-14T17:24:19.552Z
Our Easy English project with My CP Guide, a national CP resource, now available. 43 intro fact sheets to use & share. For 3 different adult audiences: 'Young adults, adults, older adults.' www.mycpguide.org.au/easy-english @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @afdo.bsky.social @speechbloke.bsky.social
— Access Easy English (@accesseasyenglish.bsky.social)2025-07-16T03:03:13.005Z
Beat the summer heat with cool activities that support foundational reading skills! The FCRR Student Center Activities has free downloadable resources for children pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Explore at: fcrr.org/student-center…
— Florida Center for Reading Research (@TheFCRR)
5:00 PM • Jul 7, 2025
When developing print awareness, children learn that print carries meaning, that it is organized in a specific way, and that there are rules for how one reads and writes. Learn the grade level expectations for this skill and how to practice it at home through our Core Literacy
— Iowa Reading Research Center (@IAReading)
5:11 PM • Jul 11, 2025
2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training
Excited to share this @cmaj.ca "Practice: Five Ways to Support..." KT piece led by two brilliant @camhnews.bsky.social post-docs @drlouisalyman.bsky.social & Adeline Lacroix on how providers can support #autistic individuals receiving health care. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
— Meng-Chuan Lai (@mengchuanlai.bsky.social)2025-07-18T03:32:55.874Z
Episode 2 of The #KnowledgeMatters Podcast is all about building student retrieval strength.🏋️♂️
🎇@dylanwiliam talks w/ @PatriceBain1 about 4️⃣ Principles to Improve Student Learning:
1.Retrieval🧠
2.Spaced Practice⏸️
3.Metacognition💡
4.Interleaving🔀🔗bit.ly/3I7BmfE
— Knowledge Matters Campaign (@KnowledgeMatrs)
11:11 AM • Jul 2, 2025
Do you have students in your classroom on the autism spectrum who are learning to read, or who are hyperlexic?
@ReadingShanahan has written this thought provoking blog in two parts, here is Part one.
shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/autism-an…
— five from five (@FIVEfromFIVE)
7:58 PM • May 25, 2025
3.🔥 NDIS and provider tips, tools, & updates 🔧🔨
4. 🔓 Research
Tech like this could transform how we understand and support DLD on a massive scale!
Find the E-DLD summary here- engage-dld.com/post/can-a-mac…
Full article is accessible here - pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…— Engage with Developmental Language Disorder (@Engage_DLD)
7:01 PM • Jul 3, 2025
🚨PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨
The first paper from our focus groups with people with #Parkinson’s and their carers has been published! 🗣️
Read the article:
Thanks to supervisors @OrlaDuffy11@ktpedlow and @ProfessorPlay for their guidance!
@UlsterHealthSci
— Jodie M (@Jodie23_SLT)
6:51 PM • Jul 16, 2025
New paper day 🎉 In this secondary data registered report with @CO90s data, we looked at preschool predictors of comprehension weaknesses at age 9 📚 @ReadOxford@ProfLucyBowes
— Emma James (@emljames)
7:42 AM • Jul 15, 2025
5. ❣️ Client views & 😍 for speech pathology!
The period from prenatal to three is the most uniquely consequential window in all of human development. 🧵
— Dan Wuori (@danwuori.bsky.social)2025-07-16T11:55:56.839Z
Shame I need to run across the track and add the missing apostrophe.
— F.L. Everett (@fliceverett.bsky.social)2025-07-09T09:39:31.053Z
Tag someone who can relate 🤳💕 #NationalSocialMediaDay
— Hello Kitty (@hellokitty)
2:01 PM • Jun 30, 2025