June is Aphasia Awareness Month so of all the blog post ideas swimming around in my head, I thought I'd address aphasia. And procrastinate on the report cards that I should be working on. Recently, Dr. Mike Dow's book was released on amazon. His brother, David, and mom, Carol are 1/2 of Aphasia Recovery Connection, …
Author: Sara Holm
#DCSDBLOGS – a week or more late!
The topic of Week 4 of the #dcsdblogs challenge was Tips and Tricks. It was meant to be written April 23-29 and here I am on May 6th. Happy Derby Day! Honestly, I'm not sure I have a lot of tips or any tricks but I've been thinking about expectations. I vaguely remember a Lower …
oops – I’m 125 days behind
Tonight is the last night of Spring Break and I'm happily typing in a not clean house but with lots of veggies prepped in the fridge, a week of kindergarten planned and ready to go and of course, a small snowstorm on the horizon. Spring hasn't really sprung yet in Tahoe, which made last week …
the WAB – Western Aphasia Battery
This is an assessment that Zack has taken at least 5 times that I can count off the top of my head. He took it last summer when he was first starting speech therapy at UNR and again today as he is re-entering as a new patient. Tami and I were present at both and …
Teachers Learning from Teachers
It's Week 2 for the #dcsdblogs challenge! This week's prompt is: What is the best thing you've ever learned from another teacher? Everything I know now I learned from other teachers. Teachers I grew up with, teachers I took classes from, teachers I learn from on Twitter and Voxer, teachers' pictures I see on Instagram …
One Good Thing
My Twitter and Voxer friend Megan is leading the charge to encourage teachers in her district (Davenport, IA) to blog. I participated in a chat she helped host last week and feel like I was happily duped into blogging along with these great Iowan educators! This week's prompt is one good thing. What is one …
Boot Camp – last day
Friday was our last day of Aphasia U Boot Camp. I don't think I posted about this before but on the first night, Derrick's wife and sister came to talk about the website they've started in Derrick's memory. https://www.strokestrong.org/ To help raise awareness of aphasia, they are making each participant with aphasia their own cards …
Boot Camp days 3 and 4
My computer wasn't connecting to the hotel wifi for the past couple days. My work for Holm Construction came to a screeching halt as did posting here! I'm mostly caught up with work now so here're some pics from Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday we were treated to David's older brother and Carol's oldest son, Mike …
Boot Camp day 3
Yesterday morning we were in another Supported Communication session with Briane. Amy (caregiver pictured below) and I role played being a person with aphasia who needed help with something (calling the doctor to adjust dosage, getting an appointment at the dmv). Later, she worked with Zack in a sentence stretching session. Lots of people with …
Aphasia U Boot Camp Day 2
We started the day with new friends Felisa and Chris. Christine is one of the founders and really great at taking pictures, among many many other talents and skills. She has the blue and white shirt on. Our second session this morning was led by a speech pathologist who just returned from some training at …
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