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Banter Booster: speech therapy research, training, resources, practice tips, and more

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David Kinnane
October 17, 2022

Greetings! I'm David, and here's live footage of me getting ready for a face-to-face business meeting after too many Zoom sessions:  

Here's what we have for you this week:

  • Our #DLDday recent research summary tweetstorm, and new research about social determinants of language development (and why it matters), and oral language

  • Free voice and Developmental Language Disorder videos

  • Free training on airway stenosis, inclusive education practices, and an interview with Professor Norbury about DevLangDis

  • Business start-up tips for those of you thinking about launching a practice in 2023, and free fitness plans to improve your health

  • Our over-the-top, goal-focused, Halloween language workout

  • An 80s learning flashback

  • And more!

FREE open-access research and research summaries: 

For more about social determinants of language development, check out our new infographic here:

Children with rich and educated parents have an unfair advantage when it comes to early language development | Banter Speech & Language

Early language skills support children’s health and wellbeing. They help children get what they need and want, including meaningful connections with others. A child’s early engagement in responsive and rich verbal interactions with adults can have a big, positive effect on early language development. Children are more likely to have such interactions if they are

https://www.banterspeech.com.au/children-with-rich-and-educated-parents-have-an-unfair-advantage-when-it-comes-to-early-language-development/

FREE therapy resources & ideas for clever clinicians:

How to speak when you don't have a voice - BBC Ideas

Some disabled people have no voice or are hard to understand. That doesn't mean they have nothing to say, explains filmmaker Jemima Hughes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/how-to-speak-when-you-dont-have-a-voice/p07693kc

FREE training opportunities for busy SLPs:

Private practice tips for employees, managers & owners:

DAREBEE - Fitness On Your Terms.

Fitness blueprints: no-equipment visual workouts, fitness programs and challenges, training and running tips, recipes and nutrition advice.

https://darebee.com/

Shameless showcase: a BanterSpeechPreps.com resource:

Click through for a (fairly silly) video demo of this HUGE language resource covering complex sentence formulation, following directions, uncontractible copula production, verbal problem-solving, possessive -s with category sorting, oral and written reports, and oral recounts. (Not sure where I found the energy to write this one!)

Perspectives:

I hope so! Who'd have guessed that having a Jane Austen-obsessed teacher would come in so handy 30 years later! In the words of Mr Gardiner (I think!): "Do not give way to useless alarm...though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain." 

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