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
@HelenBevan@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:
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 94%
— 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
😁
— Nina Willburger @ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de (@DrNWillburger)
Dec 9, 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!