In my last blog, I shared my dismay at the effect the aging process was having on the vision of my friends and (sigh!) myself. This led me to consider the importance of vision in using AAC and the visual issues which might occur in those who have experienced a neurological event such as a [...]
Like many others, my town has baseball leagues for children and teens. The park district building was overrun the other day with kids and their parents signing up for these leagues. Most of the kids ran (or at least walked really fast) up to the door excited to get their team assignments. One boy, probably [...]
The blogs on stroke and brain injury found on VoiceforLiving.com have highlighted the benefit of multi-modal communication, the role of the communication partner and the importance of honoring the personality and interests of the individual. Today, I want to tell you a story that shows the result of all of these important topics.
Kristy was a [...]
My friend has a 2-year-old son who, needless to say, is very active. When she is busy with cooking dinner or other such things, he is even busier…taking the opportunity to pull things out of drawers, playing with the telephone, grabbing objects of interest from the countertops. She needs to stay a step ahead of [...]
“My arms weren’t long enough anymore,” my friend said as she pulled reading glasses out of her purse during dinner…to my dismay. Why was I dismayed? This was a very concrete reminder of the aging process to which none of us is immune as much as we might try to be. Her statement also made [...]
Do you remember lying in the grass seeing shapes in the clouds as they moved across the sky on a warm spring day? I can still feel the grass softly cushioning my back, the slightly damp cold in the ground and the wind gently brushing across my face.
Today is one of those sublime days and [...]
I have a friend who is originally from Poland. Around the time of the unfortunate plane crash that took the life of the Polish president and others, I ran into her. The first thing she asked was, “Did you hear about the plane crash?” She was obviously upset about it and wanted to discuss the [...]
I was pretty shy as a child and one of the banes of my existence (if a child can have a bane) was selling Girl Scout cookies…really selling anything door-to-door…even trick-or-treating was hard for me. I guess my bane extended to any situation in which I had to meet and talk to people I didn’t [...]
In 1959, Lloyd Price hit #2 on the music charts with the song, “Personality.” I must have heard it on television or something because the following lyrics from the chorus have been running through my mind:
‘cause you got personality,
walk, personality
talk, personality
smile, personality
Well, you get the idea.
The older generation in my family had a lot of [...]
The town where I live has a number of statues in front of and around public buildings. They depict people mostly but one of them is a statue of a bear lying on its back. It stands (or lies, more accurately) in front of our park district’s main building. This particular statue sparked my interest [...]
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