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

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David Kinnane
September 12, 2022

Hello! I'm David.

Not him, though, like Mr Lynch, I think bad coffee is better than no coffee at all - especially on Mondays!

To help readers who don't have Twitter, and to reduce reading time, we're experimenting this week with more direct resource links (and fewer quote tweets).

New open-access research and research summaries:

Language and early literacy professional development: A complex intervention for early childhood educators and speech-language pathologists

Purpose: Improving language and literacy skills in preschoolers can lead to better life outcomes. One way speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can improve these skills in preschoolers is by supporti...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549507.2022.2115136

FREE Therapy Resources & Ideas for Clever Clinicians:

Supporting Oral Language in the Classroom: Extending Reading Instruction Beyond Decoding - LD@school

Language comprehension and decoding are crucial for reading comprehension. This article provides strategies to support Oral Language skill development.

https://www.ldatschool.ca/supporting-oral-language-in-the-classroom/

Our Resources | Top Blokes Foundation | New South Wales Queensland

Access our free resources to help you connect better with your young man.

https://www.topblokes.org.au/resources

Via an SLP2B, @SS_Speechpath:

93 Picture scenes ideas | picture prompts, picture writing prompts, hidden pictures

Nov 12, 2020 - Explore Valencia Pankey's board "Picture scenes" on Pinterest. See more ideas about picture prompts, picture writing prompts, hidden pictures.

https://www.pinterest.com.au/cheerpankey101/picture-scenes/

FREE Training Options for Busy SLPs:

AssistiveWare’s online learning - AssistiveWare

Are you an SLP looking for AAC training? Are you new to using an AAC app? We have online learning perfect for you. Connect with our AAC experts in live webinars or learn at your own pace with online video.

https://www.assistiveware.com/on-demand-aac-training-videos

GUEST POST: Memorable Feedback: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology in Selective Attention — The Learning Scientists

As assessment specialists in a large public school district, our jobs involve working with teachers to develop useful classroom assessments and use assessment data to help students learn. Along the way, we’ve found two bodies of literature to be useful during conversations with teachers: cognitive p

https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2022/9/1-1

Private practice tips for employees, managers & owners:

Shameless Showcase: a BanterSpeechPreps.com resource:

One of our more popular bundles:

(L412) Blanks 4 Bundle: Language Comprehension Booster – Verbal Reasoning Tasks Requiring Inferences and Abstractions | Banter Speech & Language

In this no-prep pack bundle, we target Blank's Level 4 language comprehension tasks, which requires the student to draw inferences and to make abstractions based on their existing background knowledge. Specifically, there are 8 no-preparation scripted resource packs (over 240 pages in total), consisting of:

https://www.banterspeech.com.au/product/blanks-4-bundle-language-comprehension-booster-verbal-reasoning-tasks-requiring-inferences-and-abstractions/

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