Oct '22 - Speech Sounds & Start of Noala Academy

Newsletter #14 - Oct '22

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🍁 With fall in the air, we say Hello October

💻 During this month, we kicked off our Noala Academy efficiency speech and language professional series with Sharon Baum - read more here

👧 We explore speech sounds among children in our recent Noala Club, see key takeaway below. We welcome you to our next free online CPD session, 18 October - sign up here

🗓 As the government's response is due in relation to workforce shortages, we share an article by BBC News, "Selective mutism families left 'isolated' due to lack of care"

👇 If you want to read more about what's been happening with noala and join us for 1 month free access of noala, scroll to the bottom

💜 Moving into our last 3 months of the year, we want to thank your continuous support - thanks to you, we will continue growing and building a platform with you, for you!

Oct '22 Research Paper 👶

This month we welcome our community to Noala Club, all about Speech Sounds. This free online CPD session highlighted 3 research papers, also available in our library.

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‍Research papers:

1. How are speech sound disorders perceived among children? A qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews with 10–11-year-old children
2. A systematic review and classification of interventions for speech-sound disorder in preschool children
3. Applying evidence to practice by increasing intensity of intervention for children with severe speech sound disorder: a quality improvement project

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Key takeaways:

• Children often progress better with a higher session intensity.
• A clicker can be a fun and engaging way to keep track and hit speech sound targets. Getting increased trials in for consistency.
• Understanding it from a qualitative perception and the emotional side from the speakers point of view, we ask ourselves, is a lack of motivation a form of self protection?
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We would love to hear from you! Feel free to share your experience working with speech sounds with the Noala community and be welcomed to join our next free Noala Club online CPD session all about DLD & co, 18 October

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The start of Noala Academy...

‍During the month of September we launched our efficiency series with Noala US Clinical Director and M.A. CCC-SLP, Sharon Baum. We highlighted top tips and tricks for you to work more time efficiently that you can spend more time doing what you love. Working with your patients. In this 4 part series, you can find:

1. Planning Efficiently for School Based SLP’s
2. Collecting Data Efficiently for School Based SLP’s
3. Documenting Goals and Progress Efficiently
4. Avoiding Burnout & Getting Mentorship

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Read more on Noala Academy

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‍‍Other news we've been reading‍

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 BBC News shares how "Selective mutism families left 'isolated' due to lack of care"

🔖 The Sunday Post writes about "Experts call for speech and language therapy to be offered to children caught up in justice system" to help them understand complicated proceedings

🌈 Daily Mail explains that a "Speech therapist reveals she's been inundated with wave of 'COVID babies' who can barely SPEAK because of pandemic shutdowns - and parents are paying up to $1,000 a month to repair the damage"

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What's been happening at Noala 💜

🌞 As you may know, Noala underwent a summer facelift, your feedback, experience and insight has been truly engaging. Share your thoughts and we'll continue to offer a streamlined day-to-day solution

👀 As we wait for the government's response, we shared a summary report of the health and social care retention, training and recruitment for workforce, highlighting some of the RCSLT's concerns

🔥 Our professionals are on fire! During the month of September, over 100 patients were created collectively