Speech & language therapy software

The NeuroNews provides information for speech therapists, those with language difficulties, and their caregivers.

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A WARM WELCOME to the 234 new subscribers who joined last month, bringing the total to nearly 2,600. If you enjoy this newsletter, forward this to others.

Clay Nichols, newsletter editor.

Bungalow Software, Inc.

 

1. Reader Response

   Thanks for the newsletter, keep up the good work.

   -Marie Ritchie

   Also, I am finding the e-mail subscription to Neuro News very interesting

   and valuable and wondered if the June copy has come out yet as I have not

   received it . Am I still on the list?

   Regards....Carolyn & Doug Cattran

   YES, Carolyn and Doug, you're still on the 'list'.

    

   Do YOU have something to say about the NeuroNews, or its contents? Drop me an email and I’ll include it in the next newsletter -Clay

    

2. On The Web

   LOU ALBERT’S
   APHASIA/STROKE & DIABETES
   PAGE

   http://ifip.com/aphasia-stoke-diabetes.htm

   Lou writes:

   "I use this Web Page to communicate with the world. In May 995 I had a severe stroke leaving me with "Fluent" Aphasia. I have always enjoyed and used photography. I hope my "pages" are both enjoyable and information."

   "Be sure to check out photography, thought provoking quotes, Machu Picchu, Amateur Radio Service WA8PHD, Gems and Delightful Detritus and much more!

    

    

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This is not simply a game with "educational content", it actually *teaches* the patient logical deduction by stepping him/her through each part of the mystery and providing feedback for each correct part of the puzzle.

THE STORY BEGINS AS…

…the nefarious Professor Moriarty is giving a dinner party. As luck would have it, you have been invited. Professor Moriarty and his guests are seated about the table, and each person is eating a different food on a different colored plate and drinking a different drink. It's your task to determine where Moriarty is seated (along with everyone else) and which person he's poisoning.

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1. Recovery Resource

   Kirk Douglas

   "He's a Stroke Survivor AND plays one in movies"

   REVIEW OF KIRK DOUGLAS' STROKE-SURVVIOR MOVIE 'DIAMONDS'

   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/13/PK64543.DTL

   The above is a rather long web-link. You may need to copy it into your browser.

   SEVERAL years ago, Kirk Douglas had a stroke, while getting a manicure. From an ex-nurse. Luckily for him, she recognized the stroke symptoms and got him medical attention immediately. However, his speech was still significantly affected.

   [Clay's Comment:

   Unfortunately, it says a lot about the state of the healhcare industry that a nurse apparently changed careers to be a manicurist. Clearly what Kirk needed at that moment was a good nurse, not a manicurist. And that's what he got. Now, before the manicurists write in to complain, let me say that that was NOT meant to denigrate manicurists.]

   He has been in speech therapy for several years and has recovered enough to star in a new movie, Diamond, about a ex-prize fighter/stroke-survivor.

   The stroke has greatly changed his outlook, making him more patient. He gave a speech at the national speech therapy conference in 1999. His speech was well received and quite brief because, as he pointed out, stroke survivors never waste words…

   ``You think before you speak,'' he said. ``You don't insult people. It takes too much effort.'' (Pause for dramatic effect.) ``Frankly, I'd like to start speaking well enough to be insulting again.''

    

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2. Clinician's Corner

   Speech pathologist cartoons on the web

   http://home.swbell.net/bsloehr/

   Have you seen "The Practice"? No, not the Sunday-nite TV show with the less than scrupulous lawyers. The Practice SLPs might find interesting is an SLP cartoon written *by* and *for* SLPs. The author is Jenny Loehr and it's appeared in the ASHA Leader. Now dozens of her insightful cartoons are on the web at: http://home.swbell.net/bsloehr/

   Click on the "cartoons" link to view all of the cartoons on her site.

    

    

3. Humor

Since Kirk Douglas stressed the need for brevity, I'm honoring that with a short humor bit about….being brief.

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