It’s almost been forty years now and Koo Dé Tah’s “Too Young for Promises” is still stuck in my head.

Oh the irony.

Finally, Trainstop by Barbara Lehman is about a girl who catches a train and finds herself helping a group of small dolls rescue a fellow doll from a tree. Or is it just a dream? This one is great for inferencing, as you go back and find clues that you didn't notice the first time around.

Hank Finds an Egg by Rebecca Dudley is just a beautiful story about Hank, who tries his hardest to reunite an egg with its nest but he just can't find a way to get it back up the tree.

This one is fantastic for younger clients and will give you verbs and common nouns.

Journey by Aaron Becker has a similar premise, regarding a girl who finds a crayon that is magical and she uses it to enter a mythical kingdom with evil samurai figures menacing a town.

This one comes in a trilogy (Journey, Quest, Return), so I use it in dynamic assessments. For older clients.

I use many wordless picture books. Will give you some of my favourites.

'Chalk' by Bill Thomson is my absolute favourite. It is about a group of children who find a magical bag of chalk and everything that they draw comes to life. And then one of them draws a T-Rex.

Great for problem solving qns.

Every university cohort should have cake on entry. Happy 50th cohort of speech pathology @flindersuniversity.bsky.social !

I often use it in therapy using a dynamic assessment approach. At times clients will spontaneously generate a more complex sentence so I will go back and ensure that less complex structures are understood. #DevLangDis

I know it’s a very small problem, but I really needed a purple drawing pin and I have just spent the past half hour throwing things out of my desk drawers in the hunt for one, with all the fury of Daenerys Targaryen searching for her lost dragons.

Does anyone else think that perhaps the reason why Midsomer has a lot of odd murders happening is due to evil Joyce Barnaby? It would explain all these very eclectic interests she suddenly develops and drops the next episode. I mean, she was bell ringing, war reenacting, gravestone etching…

Is it just me, or when people say cyber Monday, do we picture this?

I drive past this every day on the way to work. One day I will stop outside and have a milkshake. If only to get the song out of my head.

One of the great things about AI is that we can be really specific about targets. Back when I graduated, I would have had to draw “Godzilla is sweeping” or “Dracula is jumping on the bed”

I mean, it was just a matter of time before I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the International Women’s Forum, but I didn’t expect to be hailed as such an influential woman so early into my academic career.

I’ve just finished up supervising a batch of speech pathology students on their second placement. As a thank you, they gave me a customised clipboard celebrating all the times they spelt my surname in an inventive manner.

Well @carolinebowen.bsky.social, it would appear your evil UK publisher has been at Dr Watson himself…

As Jess from Love Island UK taught us, my philosophy is “I am the prize”.

When it comes to therapy sessions, you either stand on the side of Lolly boxes, or you don’t.