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Mother’s Day: Autistic 12-year-old interviews his mom
Huffington Post
Here is a touching video featuring a wonderful mom and a wonderful son with Asperger’s. Do yourself a favor and watch it. And Happy (early) Mother’s Day!! (If you get to buy yourself or your mom a present, this StoryCorps book looks awesome.)
In Dave Isay’s new book, “MOM,” he collects the best pieces of mom-related stories from StoryCorps. Over six years, the organization put up booths where normal people could interview each other about anything they wanted. This one, just animated by StoryCorps, is a twelve-year-old autistic boy interviewing his mom about what it’s like to raise him.
via Mother’s Day: Autistic 12-Year-Old Interviews His Mom About What It’s Like To Raise Him (VIDEO).
Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: Autism, children with Autism, holiday, Mother's Day
LoJack SafetyNet expert to discuss the safety of children who wander in Boston
LoJack SafetyNet
LoJack SafetyNet’s John Paul Marosy, an eldercare expert and author of several caregiving books, will speak on “New Technologies & Techniques to Assure the Safety of Children with Cognitive Impairments Who Bolt or Wander” at The Federation for Children with Special Needs conference March 13 in Boston.
Marosy, General Manager of LoJack SafetyNet, will be joined by William Knight of the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Department.
The event will take place at the World Trade Center in Boston. Get more information here.
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: children with Autism, Down Syndrome, LoJack SafetyNet, Wandering
Rewriting the Book for Alzheimer’s Caregivers
A dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis can be tough on families and caregivers. Two experts recently partnered to literally re-write the manual for families and caregivers in central Virginia and help them offer a dementia patient the best possible quality of life.
Dr. Barbara Braddock, assistant professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, specializes in communication and cognitive disorders. Ellen Phipps, with the Alzheimer’s Association is a therapeutic recreation specialist, which uses leisure activities to improve health. They came together to write the connections manual.
Phipps said, “One of the main points is families need to re-learn how to interact with the person with dementia.”
It starts with figuring out what that person enjoyed doing before their dementia set in.
Phipps stated, “You have to discover what is important to one particular person then you have to understand what functional level they are at.”
Dr. Braddock said, “That’s an easy way to connect with someone especially using their old memory and their procedural memory, their how-to memory, in moving through the activity.”
By using the connections booklet, care givers like Beth Czaplinski of Rosewood Village Assisted Living, can find a way to reach patients in a simple way.
Czaplinski stated, “It keeps them active and they are not sitting in front of the TV just watching their lives go by on the screen.”
If you can choose an engaging activity that taps into the patient’s personality, the results are impressive.
Dr. Braddock said, “There is some research that engaging in meaningful activity will actually decrease apathy, disinterest and even behaviors like anger and aggression.”
The two authors say the book is unique because it lets caregivers tailor a fun activity to the dementia patient, instead of a one-size-fits-all approach.
Contact the Western and Central Virginia chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association to get a copy of the connections book.
Via Rewriting the Book for Alzheimer’s Caregivers
Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's, Caregiving, Dementia, Uncategorized | Tags: Alzheimer's, Caregiving, Dementia
REPOSTING – LoJack SafetyNet Launched As Solution for Tracking – Video – Metacafe
LoJack Corporation (NASDAQ: LOJN) took a major step forward in executing its diversification strategy as it launched LoJack SafetyNet, which answers a critical market need for solutions that track and rescue people at risk of wandering, including those with Alzheimer’s, autism, Down syndrome and dementia.
via LoJack SafetyNet Launched As Solution for Tracking and Rescui… – Video.
Posted on April 7, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Uncategorized |