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, …
Category: Aphasia Recovery Connection
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 …
Aphasia Boot Camp – day 1/2
We arrived in time for the Hawaiian themed welcoming get together, complete with ice cream sundae bar. It was so nice to see some friends from the Not Alone Aphasia Group Zack goes to 2x/month at UNR, Tami and some SLP students Zack knows from UNR. David Dow, son of the co-founder Carol, told us …
Getting ready for Aphasia U Boot Camp
I change my story for everyone I tell. We're going to a speech convention. We're going to a speech workshop. We're going to a speech thing for Zack. This is how the organizers describe it: A 1 week educational and social program that supports people with aphasia in Las Vegas, followed by 3 weeks of daily …
thedropinsdotorg 