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Here's what we have for you all this week:

  • Open access research about neuro-affirming terminology, and narrative competence

  • Free decodable texts, social use of language resources, and seasonal audio-stories

  • Free lifelong learning resources to upskill your skills

  • Our Halloween-themed oral language workout for students in years 2-5

  • Free private practice tips for new grads, and advice for us all to overcome procrastination

  • Perspectives on vocabulary and clinical supervision

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FREE open-access research and research summaries:

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Article: Exploring Narrative Competence of Persons with Severe Intellectual Disabilities: Insights from Complementary Inclusive Analytic Frameworks

https://www.sjdr.se/articles/10.16993/sjdr.908/

FREE therapy resources & ideas for clever clinicians:

Free decodable downloads, sorted by grapheme-phoneme and morphology links!

UFLI Foundations Decodable Text Guide

UFLI Foundations Decodable Guide Welcome to the UFLI Foundations Decodable Text Guide! This resource is designed to assist teachers in locating decodable text from various sources that aligns with the UFLI Foundations Scope & Sequence. The UFLI Foundations decodable passages are directly linked...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DnMGygUlbezd0Qoe6rb4Vj9Jm1wIYXVi7CwfaxNfI68/edit?fbclid=IwAR0yeUMN4v-ViZunHxApVG-yjizuuccXacjpRY9uMkVq8WRmUqwFZY4e4uw#gid=1860619565

Lots of pragmatic language resources here (free sign up required):

Free Resources | Anna Vagin, PhD

https://www.socialtime.org/free-resources

Free, seasonally appropriate Edgar Allan Poe audio-stories for young adults and adults:

Famous Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More

In 1849, a little over 167 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under mysterious circumstances very likely related to violent election fraud. It was an ignominious end to a life marked by hardship, alcoholism, and loss.

https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/famous-edgar-allan-poe-stories-read-by-iggy-pop-jeff-buckley-christopher-walken-marianne-faithful-more.html

FREE lifelong learning opportunities for busy SLPs:

Curated free learning links!

The Free Learning List

The best free edu-things on the internet, ranked in order of amazingness, and neatly categorized.

https://freelearninglist.org/

Best practices for teaching:

What works best 2020 update

The What works best 2020 update is an update to the What works best 2014 publication, it outlines eight quality teaching practices that are known to support school improvement and enhance the learning outcomes of our students.

https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/educational-data/cese/publications/research-reports/what-works-best-2020-update

Useful summary of effective literacy interventions:

Dyslexia Interventions | Teaching By Science

https://www.teachingbyscience.com/dyslexia-interventions

Private practice tips for employees, managers & owners:

Impatience with actions, patience with results (via Visualize Value):

The Imperfectionist: How to get out of a rut

​ ​ ​ How to get out of a rut It strikes me that a lot of advice on how to get things done is borderline useless, at least for me personally, because I'm so rarely in the right ...

https://ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrzxwrd

Shameless showcase: a BanterSpeechPreps.com resource:

Perspectives:

A new DDK exercise has dropped! Say this word six times:

Interesting thread on supervision and isolation in private practice:

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