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Banter Booster: speech therapy research, training, resources, practice tips, and more
David Kinnane
November 07, 2022
Happy November, SLPeeps and SLP2B! I'm David, with live footage of us trying to juggle bookings with everyone back in the clinic:
Here's what we have for you this week:
Free resources for reading support, & easy-to-follow explainers about the importance of oral language for reading, and guardianship & financial management
Free training about voluntary decisions to stop eating & drinking, accents & social mobility, and phonetics
Open-access research and research summaries about neurodevelopmental disorders, toddler communication development during the pandemic, and the mental health of parents of children with Fragile X
Our Stuttering Assessment Pack
NDIS compliance and waitlist management tips for SLPs in private practice
Perspectives on client communication, compassion online, and 'grammagrams' for word nerds
FREE therapy resources & ideas for clever clinicians:
Fantastic resources to support reading assessment and interventions in schools:
And we are live @NatalieJCam@Jasmyn_K_Hall@JasmineFS208@TessConradt
— Steph Le Lievre (@StephLeLievre_)
Nov 2, 2022
A helpful resource to explain to families why we assess and treat oral language for students with reading challenges:
This short 4 minute video from Professor Maggie Snowling is a beautifully clear explanation of why oral language is the foundation for reading: youtube.com/watch?v=U_pP4D…
— Alex Quigley (@AlexJQuigley)
Apr 25, 2020
Great to see these new easy-to-read fact sheets:
New Easy Read fact sheets on guardianship and financial management available
— NCAT (@NCATNSW)
Nov 3, 2022
FREE training opportunities for busy SLPs:
Good information (with links) about a complex issue:
New article in @bmj_latest on voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED).
"Clear information and guidance is inarguably the foundation of good care for patients and physicians alike."
@DrLindaDykes@DrSimonHodes@sarahmalik450
— Compassion in Dying (@AGoodDeath)
Nov 2, 2022
A fun resource to refresh your phonetics knowledge with your team:
Hey, @CityLCS students - have a go at this fun phonetics word search from my friend @TStarrMarshall - find all 10 colours!
— Dr Sophie MacKenzie (@SophieMacK11)
Nov 2, 2022
A thought-provoking paper on accents and social mobility:
The full report we've (@accentbias) been working on with @suttontrust can be found here:
— Christian Ilbury (@Christianilbury)
Nov 3, 2022
FREE open-access research and research summaries:
Click through for text and links:
Yet more research confirming concerns about the impact of life during covid on toddlers’ communication skills —dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdi… @speechiellie@kate_jones_sp@NatalieMunro3@marcsbabylab
— Elise Baker (@DrEliseBaker)
Nov 5, 2022
A new #OpenAccess article from #ASHASIG1! This article shows that parents experiencing mental health challenges have a difficult time participating in language intervention with children with #FragileX syndrome @UCDMINDINST@UCD_Psychiatry@UCDavisHealth
— SIGPerspectives (@SIGPerspectives)
Nov 4, 2022
Private practice tips for employees, managers & owners:
"Waiting List Management" by @NicoleMcGillSLP and @SharynneMcLeod@CharlesSturtUni@NSWHealth
Listen to our Advances in Communication and Swallowing @ACSJournal Autumn Lecture here:
via @YouTubeHere is a paper we discussed:
content.iospress.com/articles/advan…— Sharynne McLeod (@SharynneMcLeod)
Nov 2, 2022
An important conversation we need to have about turnover and burnout our profession:
Touching base with old uni friends - out of a group of 5 speech pathologists, we have 0 practising speechies!! I think we need to have a chat about #burnout#SLT#speechpath#alliedhealth
— Caitlin Hurley (@drcaitlinhurley)
Nov 3, 2022
Shameless showcase: a BanterSpeechPreps.com resource:
Perspectives:
Challenge to #HCP in communicating with patients and their families. #COSA22
— 💉💉💉A/Prof. Haryana Dhillon💉💉💉 (@hagsie)
Nov 2, 2022
Twitter is an anti-compassion machine that stokes our tendency to dehumanize and even hate people we don't know personally.
Four little exercises I use to combat that and crank up the compassion in my mind:
— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy)
Nov 4, 2022
I have a new obsession. Move over, homophones.
— 90% Chance of Raina (@Raina_MoonSage)
Nov 2, 2022
That's it for this week. You deserve a coffee - or other beverage of your choice - for all that scrolling!
How did we do this week? Hit reply and let me know!
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