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spring flowers in the australian bush photos – Bing images
When I was in the garden yesterday afternoon I could hear all the birds around the gardens singing their little hearts out! It certainly made me think Spring is nearly here so I was looking for our Australian wild flowers that are about to bloom!
Support near you — Stroke Foundation – Australia
I am no expert on the issues of strokes, I just have had one in May this year.
I have come across this article on the topic of reading and writing again after a stroke.
My issue has been the damage to my right eye and the ability to read, read what I have even written to begin with was hopeless. Today I am reading very slowly! I cannot read everything though, it is a slow process that affects my confidence also.
I am able to type, thank goodness write long hand but it is making me tired and yes I have errors.
But I plod along and with the help of husband and some friends sending me short emails I am putting back my words into my pea brain! I do not know how long it will take me to get back to where I was when all this nightmare started!
But I do miss driving my little car.
The health authorities have various classes to help people like us so it is up to the local GP you have and his nurse to send us to these places. Some are in local hospital or clinics or some come to the house to help. Just chat to your local nurse and she will find out the local classes that can help.
Of course a stroke doesn’t only affect the ability to read and write, it can affect the speech and the areas of walking too.
Good luck and I hope you have a lot of success with your ability to do what you feel you need in this long race to get back to being you.
Learning to read and write again after strokeDecember 13, 2018Elizabeth B. Madden, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
?After experiencing a stroke on the left side of the brain, many people will acquire aphasia. Aphasia is a language disorder that affects a person’s ability to talk, understand others, read, and write. It does not, however, affect a person’s intelligence. There are approximately 2 million Americans currently living with aphasia in the United States.
Most treatments for aphasia are focused on helping people improve their spoken language abilities, with less emphasis on therapy that addresses reading and spelling difficulties. However, written language skills are necessary to participate in many common activities of daily living, such as reading a menu or texting a friend or family member. Importantly, people with aphasia often express interest in working on these skills to regain more independence and improve overall communication and social interaction with others.
Our laboratory, the FSU Aphasia Research Laboratory, is evaluating the effects of a 9-week comprehensive reading and spelling treatment for aphasia. Our treatment protocol builds off previous work that shows it is beneficial to simultaneously target reading and spelling skills, and furthermore, that it is advantageous to spend time re-training the phonological, or sound, system, to help individuals re-learn how to connect the sounds in English to their corresponding letters. Being able to derive sound from letters and then attach meaning to those sounds are critical skills needed for reading and writing.
Reading and spelling treatment was delivered to two individuals with aphasia two to three times a week, and each participant received 36 hours of therapy over nine weeks. In addition, reading and spelling homework exercises were assigned to increase the intensity of treatment outside of the therapy room.
Treatment consisted of three progressive stages. Stage 1 focused on re-training the connections between sounds and letters, which are often interrupted after a stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain. Each consonant and vowel sound in the English language was practiced in a multi-modal fashion, meaning that participants worked on listening to the sound being produced by the speech therapist, seeing the sound by looking at pictures of the correct mouth posture, watching the therapist’s mouth and their own mouth in a mirror, feeling each sound by identifying which parts of their mouth were moving to produce the sound, saying the sound by repeating the therapist’s production, reading each sound by identifying the corresponding letter, and writing each sound by copying the corresponding letter.
Stage 2 of therapy targeted reading and spelling of single words. Participants listened, repeated, read, and wrote targeted words. This stage focused on improving phonological awareness by having participants identify the individual sounds that made up each word. Participants completed exercises that involved breaking the word down into individual sounds and then blending those sounds back together, as well as substituting or adding sounds/letters to the targeted words to create new words that shared overlapping sounds/letters. The purpose of this stage was to further strengthen knowledge of how letters and sounds are related.
Stage 3 focused on comprehending trained words and emphasized the connection between letters and their meaning, or semantics, which is necessary to understand the word being read or spelled. To achieve this, participants completed a variety of tasks that involved identifying the definition of the word, as well as related words, and deciding which written sentence used the target word correctly. Finally, participants wrote or copied a sentence using the word correctly. Tasks from Stages 1 and 2 were used to help complete the comprehension exercises in Stage 3.
We are now analyzing the data for this project, but so far, the results look promising. Both participants improved in their ability to read and spell the trained words, and importantly also showed improvement on words that were not trained. This lets us know that the skills learned in therapy generalized or carried-over to words that were not practiced in therapy and indicate that reading and spelling in everyday life situations might also improve. Finally, improvement on spoken language tasks, such as the ability to repeat words and name pictures, also improved after therapy, which is another example of generalization and show cases the close relationship between spoken and written language.
These preliminary results are a testament to neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire itself and make new neural connections after brain injury. Both participants endured their strokes over 10 years ago and our findings, along with those of many others, demonstrate that language recovery does not have a time limit, as once thought. People with aphasia can continue to make improvements many years after the initial brain injury.
Our reading and spelling treatment protocol will continue to be modified and validated with additional participants to determine its efficacy and efficiency. Future work will also focus on hearing from people with aphasia tell their story of how their stroke impacted their reading and writing and get input directly from stroke survivors on how best to rehabilitate written language.
We hope our work encourages professionals working with individuals with aphasia to spend more time on the assessment and treatment of reading and writing skills, which are critical for social interaction and quality of life, and are of high importance to people living with acquired reading and writing difficulties.
I didn’t appreciate she was that age, she doesn’t show it.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, 77, quits Britain to spend her ‘last summers’ with her grandson in her native New Zealand after Covid pandemic kept them apart for months
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has moved back to her native New Zealand so she can watch her grandson grow up. In a touching interview, the retired opera star told how she made the decision after the pandemic meant she was unable to see him for months. Dame Kiri, who sang at the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, said: ‘I’m 77 now and I don’t know how many summers I have left. I want those summers to be with Luther.’ She moved to London to train in 1965, travelled the world after her career took off, and has lived in East Sussex for more than 20 years. Right: Dame Kiri sings Let The Bright Seraphim at Prince Charles and Lady Diana’s wedding in St Pauls Cathedral in 1981
What a good daddy!
Something to put a smile on your dial! I love the video of the daddy!
What a real man.
Marc Daniels, from Bermuda, stepped up on stage when his then two-year-old daughter Bella (right today) became anxious and scared during a dress rehearsal for her dance recital. Carrying his youngest child in his arms, Marc pointed his toes and pirouetted while Bella danced in a tutu by his side (left). The clip, filmed in 2018, swept the internet and has inspired Marc, a barrister, to write a children’s book, The Story of Daderina: The Daderina Series (inset), about his special moment with his daughter.
Marc Daniels holds Bella’s hand on stage as she suffers from stage fright. He knew the routine because he’d scheduled his meetings around the girls to spend as much time with them as possible
black detergent for dark clothing – Bing images
This is what I use for my dark colours instead of the liquid for dark colours which is expensive. So I ill two birds with one stone.
I thought I may place here a site for senior ladies hair styles, I know one of the first things I wanted to do was go to the hairdressers! I had not been for some weeks and my hair was getting very bitty and needed trimming. I didn’t go for a further month! So by then it was that much longer so I have changed my hair style! LOL
But I was just thinking if there are ladies that have recently had a stroke and have come out of hospital and having trouble searching on the net, which is very easy for them to get confused doing that, I thought I would put some sites down for them to look through!
Enjoy!
senior ladies short hairstyles photos – Bing images
ladies hair styles photos – Bing
senior ladies coloured hair photos – Bing images
Why Chris Hemsworth was ‘desperate’ to get the Covid vaccine months ago – but still ‘refused to publicise getting the jab in a government campaign’
Chris Hemsworth made headlines this week amid claims he declined to appear in a star-studded advertising campaign promoting the Covid-19 vaccine in Australia. The Byron Bay local, 38, was reportedly trying to secure himself a Pfizer jab in June, but when the government offered him a ‘speedy vaccination’ in exchange for featuring in the public health campaign, he turned them down. While it’s unclear why Hemsworth rejected the offer, a new report sheds some light on the circumstances surrounding the Hollywood star’s desire to get vaccinated in the first place.
The power of forgiveness: Hugh Jackman hugs the mother who abandoned him as a child… a decade after revealing they ‘made peace’
Hugh Jackman was just eight years old when his mother, Grace McNeil, abandoned her family in Australia and returned to the UK. The Hollywood actor, 52, has previously described Grace’s sudden departure as ‘traumatic’, but it appears time heals all wounds. Hugh posted a photo on Instagram on Monday of himself hugging Grace as they both smiled warmly at each other, and simply captioned it: ‘Mum.’
The twin girls who made it to Britain… and the children who were left behind by their parents in Afghanistan: Two tales of ecstasy and anguish on another day of chaos – as a THOUSAND people who helped Britain face being left to Taliban
Young sisters Asna and Sana (top) may not yet understand just how fortunate they are to escape Afghanistan amid fears that up to 1,000 face being left behind. But for their translator father, the RAF evacuation flight to Britain from Kabul was a lifeline, as he admitted the Taliban would have killed him because of his vital support for the Army. The ecstasy of the family – interpreter Nooragha Hashimi, his wife, the twins and their brother – was in stark contrast to the desperate scenes unfolding outside a temporary British processing unit at Kabul’s airport, illustrating the lottery faced by those trying to reach the UK
