Jessica Farrell

Paediatric Speech Pathologist working in Geelong. Client-centered, holistic care is my passion.

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Rather than asking a parent to do speech homework, ask them to ‘run two sessions per week’ to meet the minimum recommended intervention requirement for speech sound therapy efficacy #empowerment #spaconf @DrEliseBaker

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Complex developmental trauma is a hidden epidemic. Not only detrimental to social and emotional development; it is associated with a number of chronic and deadly diseases.
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[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Yes!! @madashelltv ‘s @shaunmicallef killing it without the studio audience 🥰
#MadAsHell

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Australia needs a culture change. Extremism is dangerous is all forms. I’m feeling ashamed watching #HowToSellAMassacre

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Just finished up with my last client for the week. My job is hard work and I’m exhausted, but By Jove do I love what I do. Plus, I get to play with toys all day weeeheee!
#paediatricspeechpathology #toysfordays #sososotired

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Just monkeying around in my #NewProfilePic 😏

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Thank you @edsheeran for spending 16 hours with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1. #2018Wrapped https://t.co/wBRTIm1Ihu

[The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne @RCHMelbourne]

RCH clinicians have successfully separated twins Nima & Dawa in a 6 hour op. Surgery involved a multi-disciplinary team of around 25 clinicians, including the Bhutan paediatrician. Dr Joe Crameri said surgery went smoothly & the girls are recovering well & breathing independently

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Yaaaas #hardquiz is back - excited enough to get back on Twitter!! 😍

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Having a ball presenting at the Early Years Conference in Bannockburn. How convenient that it coincides with the commencement of #spweek !
#earlyyears #speechpathology #speechandlangdevelopment

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

‘He just loses control sometimes’. Does he? Does he ‘lose control’ at work? With his mates? Domestic violence is about gaining control. Loved attending the DV-Alert training by @LifelineAust

[Emily Dawes @EmilyDawesSLP]

Do NOT need to get children to imitate structures back (e.g. Just provide model: 'the boy felt worried because he lost his dog') - @RonGillam #SPAconf

[Suze Leitao @Suze_Freogirl]

Loving the way @RonGillam is taking us through the literature slowly that drove the fashion for training working memory building up to a big fat NO (see metaanalysis below) #SPAconf

[Dr Shaun Ziegenfusz (he/him) @shaunziegenfusz]

We don't want story grammar soup. We want to teach the causal relationships about how they all fit together. Causality is key - kids need to understand the interconnections #spaconf

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

Start with the macrostructure, the bigger picture of narratives, then delve into the microstructures. Chunk that information into a ‘bigger’ framework to decrease demand on working memory for comprehension. So valuable for lang intervention! @RonGillam #spaconf

[Tim Kittel @TImothyKittel]

Gillam: Children have an ability to inference, certainly, but those with #devlangdis don’t tend to activate in when participating in linguistic events. #SPAConf
This is such a sad thing to contemplate. We need to make books so much more fun.

[Laura Glisson @LauraGlisson]

Kintsch model of comprehension - important theoretical framework for discourse-based comp. Integrate ideas across sentences, link to LTM, generating inferences based on text, to fill in gaps that author has not included. We make local & global inferences - simultaneously
#SPAconf

[Cori Williams @Cori_SPA]

Gillam keynote workshop. give children an organisational framework and it will allow them to use existing language. @SpeechPathAus #spaconf @spa2018 #narrative intervention #wespeechies @SLPeeps

[Jessica Farrell @jesscommunicate]

‘We don’t know if we can improve working memory capacity. What we can do is improve working memory efficiency’. Dr Sandi Gillam discusses giving children an ‘organisational framework’ for narratives #spaconf

[Emily Dawes @EmilyDawesSLP]

Critical periods for language - people change the way they process syntax up into 20s! - Gillam #SPAConf

[Emily Dawes @EmilyDawesSLP]

Competing Language Processing Task discussed by Gillam - abstract here https://t.co/XIFKEDvwdb #SPAConf