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Banter Booster Premium #3!
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David Kinnane
April 28, 2025
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👋🏻 I’m David! A very warm welcome to our Premium Subscribers - we’ve made lots of special resources just for you:
a recording of our third AMA session, held on 14 April 📹️
our SLP Manager’s Guide to Building a Sustainable, Fulfilling Career 🧘♀️
our Plain English Guide to Effective Shared Reading Practices for educators, SLPs, aides and allied health assistants in mainstream settings 📗
our SLP Guide to Overcoming the Sunk Costs Fallacy 💰️ and
the slide pack from my talk at the wonderful Solo Speechies Network Conference on 14 April! 💬 🥳
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A special “hello”, too, to our new Booster Subscribers! We hope you enjoy the Booster, which comes out weekly during each school term, packed with lots of free resources and tools to improve your SLP life!
1. 🆓 Resources
If you're looking for spelling resources for the last few weeks before SATS, look no further!
There's a whole range of different tasks and activities for all the spelling rules covered in the KS1 and KS2 curriculum.mrsfclassroom.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/eng…
— Sarah Farrell (@SarahFarrellKS2)
11:19 AM • Apr 18, 2025
I often get asked to support schools with the implementation of decodable texts.
Here’s a protocol that I would use with a printed decodable passage when students are learning a new sound-spelling correspondence. Simple steps, big impact!
Enjoy!
— Justin Browning (@SorforMore)
11:21 PM • Apr 22, 2025
It's HERE! The long-awaited version of Pirate Math Equation Quest for multi-step word problems! All FREE. All DOWNLOADABLE. piratemathequationquest.com
— Sarah Powell (@sarahpowellphd)
4:33 PM • Apr 7, 2025
I'm sure you know about @olicav's website, but maybe haven't visited in a while. There are so many great new resources on here since the last time I checked. Just ask about proper crediting, and start illuminating the world of teaching and learning...
— Zach Groshell (@MrZachG)
8:23 PM • Apr 23, 2025
Yes! Check out the CUBED language assessment.
languagedynamicsgroup.com/cubed/get-cube…
So much good stuff, such a fan of Dr. Louise Spear-Swerling… I could listen to her ALL DAY…
This episode is 🔥🔥🔥@LindsayKemeny— Dr. Kelly J. Grillo, PhD (@kellygrillo)
10:55 AM • Apr 10, 2025
2. 🤓 Technical Skills, & Training
❗ NEW PODCAST❗
How important is #Language for children’s #Development? This & more answered as @umartoseeb interviews @CharlesHulme8 about his recent research into the efficacy of the Oral Language for Literacy Intervention (OLLI) programme. bit.ly/42qcFms
— Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (@acamh)
9:30 AM • Apr 24, 2025
In this on-demand webinar, Prof Maggie Snowling delves into research highlighting that oral language is not just important in reading comprehension but also pivotal in the whole process of learning to read.
Learn more - ow.ly/CwwT50TNxxm
— OxEd and Assessment (@OxEdAssessment)
2:01 PM • Apr 22, 2025
What handwriting style should students be taught? In this new Nomanis article, Alison Clarke examines Australian school handwriting fonts and how they vary by state.
Read in full: hubs.la/Q03gvXxh0
— MultiLit (@MULTILITmedia)
6:52 AM • Apr 11, 2025
3. 🧐 Practice Tips
There's so much change happening at present. It's easy to feel powerless & overwhelmed. That's why I have gone back to sharing the classic Stephen Covey "circle of control" model with many of the teams I work with. There are lots of big changes happening that are in our "circle
— Helen Bevan (@HelenBevan)
4:41 PM • Mar 31, 2025
Most people wildly overestimate the amount of time they have for focused work in any given day.
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz)
11:10 AM • Apr 24, 2025
Crappy bosses breathe down your neck.
Great bosses have your back.
— Daniel Pink (@DanielPink)
8:17 PM • Apr 4, 2025
4. 🔓 Research
#ResearchTuesday! Authors in #AJSLP show importance of including spoken and nonspoken communication when assessing the expressive vocabulary of minimally speaking autistic children: at.asha.org/Ca
@ASHAJournals@SIGPerspectives@CSDisseminate#Autism#WorldAutismMonth
— ASHA (@ASHAWeb)
3:09 PM • Apr 22, 2025
🆓🔓 @ashajournals.bsky.social Included interventions varied in content & duration but were overall effective in improving meaning-based language outcomes. The overall effect of intervention was large (g=0.79) and consistent for vocab (g=0.71) and morphosyntax (g = 0.81). pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....
— Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 (@carolinebowen.bsky.social)2025-04-16T06:22:11.546Z
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