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Banter Booster: speech therapy research, training, resources, practice tips, and more
David Kinnane
December 12, 2022
Welcome to our final Boost of 2022! I'm David, and here I sit practising the hardest skill in all of speech pathology as I prepare for a less hectic 2023:
Bonus points if you can name the Christmas movie*!
Here's what we have for you this week:
FREE resources: an extended code decodable, a low-prep antonym activity, and a free DLD ebook.
FREE private practice tips on how to take a much needed break, closing the know-do gap by driving out fear from your workplace.
FREE training opportunities to learn more about educating communication partners with AAC Communicators, the prevalence of social communication disorders, and cochlear implants.
OPEN-ACCESS RESEARCH about disability supports, early predictors of language delay, and children with DLD as friends.
Our Christmas-themed oral language workout for students in Years 2-5.
Perspectives on the year in progress; + a bonus mum joke & a badly drawn horse.
FREE therapy resources & ideas for clever clinicians:
📣🎁🎄 FREE CHRISTMAS DECODABLE RESOURCE! 📣🎁🎄 We're 6 days in to Sounds-Write's 12 Days of Christmas! Today, we've got a free Extended Code Unit 6 /er/ poem for you. Here's the link:
— John Walker, Sounds-Write (@SWLiteracy)
Dec 6, 2022
Tip: use the first link
My free ebook for families of kids with DLD is now easy to access and share! Download it from or bcpractice.com. Empowerment begins with information! 📚🧠✊
#DevLangDis#DLDandMe#SLPeeps— Dr. Jeanne Tighe (@TigheJeanne)
Nov 22, 2022
Private practice tips for employees, managers & owners:
The 'know-do gap', and driving out fear from your workplace
@katebhilton Pfeffer + Sutton's book 'The Knowing-Doing Gap' shares 8 great points on 'How to Drive Fear and Inaction Out of Organisations' (sorry about my underlinings)
— Matthew Kalman Mezey (@MatthewMezey)
Dec 5, 2022
Agreed!
2023 Goals for #slpeeps...
Can we please stop saying we are "servicing clients"?
Please?
— Tara Roehl (@SpeechyKeenSLP)
Dec 2, 2022
FREE training opportunities for busy SLPs:
12 Days of Podcasts
Our Top 12 listened to podcasts of Season One
Thanks to our 530 listeners who listened to our podcasts over 1600 times!!Day 3: International Cochlear Implant Day with Clinical Specialist Jennifer Robertson
#12daysofPodcasts— IASLT (@iaslt)
Dec 7, 2022
FREE open-access research and research summaries:
The third and final perspective from my #PhD study has been published! This is the close other perspective on what facilitates quality #disability support for adults with acquired neurological disability. Super happy to have all my PhD papers published 😃🎉
— Megan Topping (@MeganTopping6)
Dec 9, 2022
Early Predictors of Children’s Language Delays
The specific types of words children learn first can be a predictor of early language difficulties.
#language#neuroscience#science
— Neuroscience News (@NeuroscienceNew)
Dec 10, 2022
#openaccess Children with language disorder as friends: Interviews with classroom peers to gather their perspectives #DevLangDis#SLP#SLT#ElemEd#LanguageDevelopment#k12#ChildHealth
— Daniela O'Neill (@daniela_oneill)
Dec 5, 2022
Shameless showcase: a BanterSpeechPreps.com resource:
Ho, Ho, Ho from your friendly Banter Santa:
Perspectives:
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— Year Progress (@year_progress)
Dec 10, 2022
That’s the most involved flip book imagery I’ve ever seen.
— ScienceHub (@Intrestingthigs)
Dec 10, 2022
Proof that mum jokes can be just as bad as dad jokes:
As a speech and language therapist, and Mum to a Yr5 child, I'm appreciating this Christmas joke 😁🎅:
What did the English teacher call Santa's helpers? Subordinate Clauses— Rachel Townsend (@rachelktownsend)
Dec 5, 2022
Thanks so much for your support, good humour, and feedback this year. It's been a pleasure sharing tips, resources, and research with you. If you'd like to see Banter Booster back next year, hit reply and let me know!
From the whole Banter Speech & Language team, we hope you have a wonderful break with your friends and families, with lots of well-deserved rest. We wish you a happy and healthy 2023.
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* Final note: Gremlins and Die Hard are both Christmas movies. As the young folk say: don't @ me!