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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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 …
It’s the little things
This morning I woke up to this: I'm equally dreading and looking forward to meeting other caregivers of people with aphasia next month in Las Vegas. But the part of me that's looking forward to it wonders if they celebrate all the little things. Like the other day, I heard Zack say my name for …
Sure, let’s ski the bear scratch
The Bear Scratch is a ski line that is not often skiable. It takes a LOT of lake level snow for this to be in consideration and just the right storm to get people excited about it. Snowpocalypse 2017 was that storm! Even though I didn't have school and Zack didn't have speech in Reno …
Snowpocalypse
There are two funny words for blizzards like the one we just had - snowmageddon, which I prefer because I love the silly movie Armageddon, and snowpocalypse. Yesterday we were walking and gawking through the neighborhood and Zack was saying snowpocalypse. I thought he said acropolis but he said close and eventually I got to …
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