Zack was able to start the Fall Term seeing a new speech student, Hanna, twice a week. Here is her assessment. UNR Reassessment September 6, 2017 We're feeling doubly blessed because we learned last week that he'll be able to work with Jordan, whom we met at the Aphasia Recovery Connection gathering in Vegas this …
Category: Aphasia
Summer Speech data
We just got Zack's final evaluation from the UNR summer term. Zack summary of progress Summer 2017 I don't know why it won't post as an image but let me know if you cant click on this and get to the pdf. I also wanted to give a big shout out to Zack, of course. …
Yes/No Questions
Belatedly, I wanted to share a victory in Zack's independent speech therapy. Yes/No questions have been challenging since Zack's first days of speech in May 2015. Even when he knew which was correct, the other word would come out and this makes some transactional conversations hard. i.e. Do you want to take the Subaru today? …
Data updates
Zack got his Plan of Treatment for the UNR summer term of speech therapy with Elizabeth in the mail so I thought I'd share this along with today's update from Constant Therapy, one of the apps he uses regularly.
Hiking with Aphasia
[side note: I started this post after a hike on July 9th. Since it's now August 1st, I figured it's time to publish it. Yikes! ] Passing by the lakes on the way up and down, Zack says, "America". Oh, we hiked here on the 4th of July? You, Jack and Molly came here on …
June is Aphasia Awareness Month
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, …
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 …
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 …
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