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

Greetings, fellow SLPeeps and SLP2B! I'm David, and here's live footage of me learning TikTok, mainly to embarrass my sons:

Here's what we have for you this week:

Free resources for vocabulary intervention, an app for early blending and segmenting practice, and a writing exercise suggestion
Free training on autistic girls & masking, the science of reading, and Cranial Nerve V3
Open access research & reserach summaries about health literacy for people with communication disabilities, differential diagnosis of CAS v dysarthria, multilingual language development, and conversation outcomes of clients with aphasia
Private practice tips on supporting parents of young children to seek help from the NDIS, kindness, and accessing research to help your practice
A resource for higher level language support
Perspectives on how we spend our lives, the origin of upper and lower case letters, and the perils of groupwork!

FREE therapy resources & ideas for clever clinicians:

Free vocabularly ideas to improve language content:

A free app for initial code segmenting and blending:

Because, but, so sentences:

For more because/but/so sentences, check out our structured writing resource:

(R510) Think, Then Write (Volume 1.5): Using ‘because’, ‘but’, ‘so’ to create complex sentences | Banter Speech & Language

This no-prep workbook is recommended for practice between Volume 1 (complex sentences) and Volume 2 (paragraphs) of our Think then Write Program. It's composed of 26 sets of sentence exercises (4 or 5 different sentence stems per set). We've chosen to focus on the words 'because', 'but' and 'so', because for speaking, understanding, reading and writing, it’s useful to know that: "because" explains why something is true; "but" indicates a contrast, or a u-turn; and "so" tells us what happens as a result of something else (i.e. its effect). To understand the differences in more detail, we practice completing identical sentence fragments using "because", "but" and "so". Available in PDF and Google Slides.

https://www.banterspeech.com.au/product/think-then-write-volume-1-5-using-because-but-so-to-create-complex-sentences/

FREE training opportunities for busy SLPs:

Removing the mask on autistic girls: How they mask, the effects on mental health, and how to support

Resource suggestions to improve your literacy assessments and interventions:

Nice revision of CNV3:

FREE open-access research and research summaries:

Helpful, practical paper on CAS v Dysarthria (via @DrEliseBaker)!

A Tool for Differential Diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech and Dysarthria in Children: A Tutorial

Purpose: While there has been mounting research centered on the diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), little has focused on differentiating CAS from pediatric dysarthria. Because CAS and dysarthria share overlapping speech symptoms and some children have both motor speech disorders, differential diagnosis can be challenging. There is a need for clinical tools that facilitate assessment of both CAS and dysarthria symptoms in children. The goals of this tutorial are to (a) determine confidence levels of clinicians in differentially diagnosing dysarthria and CAS and (b) provide a systematic procedure for differentiating CAS and pediatric dysarthria in children.

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2022_LSHSS-21-00164#.Y2YzvZJSd50.twitter

Click for our latest clinical article @banterspeech:

Bilingualism, language, cognition, and working memory:

Aphasia treatment: conversation as an outcome

Private practice tips for employees, managers & owners:

Climb those paywalls to access research (legally)

Shameless showcase: a BanterSpeechPreps.com resource:

Perspectives:

Something to reflect on:

Origins of UPPER and lower case:

Me neither, to be honest, though it's a necessary life skill in private practice:

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