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All The Things I Love About Speech Therapy With Adults
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Draw and write, it's good for you!
Browsing one of my favourite places on earth - the bookstore - generates yet another inspiring resource for therapy!
This one is for the caregivers
Today was day 1 of a great conference, the 15th annual PSA Regional Stroke Conference. First of all, the conference took place at The Magnolia of Millbrae which I thought was an awesome venue for this crowd.
Homework
So, you work with adult patients who have aphasia. Do you ever give your patients homework? You know, those sheets of paper full of writing, matching or naming exercises?
What have you been up to?
Many discussions start with the question "What have you been up to?" Quite often we get the "Nothing much" or "You know, the usual" as the first reply. But then, the magic happens.
Flexibility
The possibilities of a computer in speech therapy have been explored since the very early computers became available.
Student? New to aphasia?
As you may have noticed, I am quite passionate about speech therapy with adults. To be honest, every now and then people around me actually ask me to stop and talk about something else.
No feedback?
We have had a lot of questions about why Sanapsis gives no feedback to patients, such as a reward sound or green color when you get the task right and a horn or red color when you make a mistake.
CSHA2015
So, we were at Long Beach 5-8 March. What an event, guys, what an event. We met many great colleagues (and colleagues to be) and will be busy for weeks going through leaflets and brochures from the expo!
Everyday noise, noise everywhere.
Are you at home reading this? Stop for a minute and listen. What do you hear? Is it quiet and peaceful? Just the TV from the other room and maybe the dishwasher doing its stuff? Or just the AC blasting?
Interaction between you and your patient
Interest. Support. Presence. Experience. Reward. Professionalism. Contact. Kindness. All the tools and things and gadgets we have in our therapy room can never override interaction between a patient and a therapist.