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Thank you• for the sacrifices you have made
to help people like us
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Today we want to:
• Tell you a patient and care partner’s view of rehab
• Tell you what you do that helps us• Encourage you – that you make a
huge impact in people’s lives• Questions or Comments
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Thank you
• For your skilled care that helps your patients survive
• For your kindness
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Thank you• For assuring families but not
forcing them to go home• For letting them decide
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Thank you• For not forcing your patients
and their families too quickly into the realization of what lies ahead
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Thank you• For creating a pleasant
environment for your patients to heal and to begin to hope
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Thank you• For crying with your patients• For showing compassion
alongside your professionalism
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Thank you
• For balancing humor with your compassion and knowledgeable care
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Thank you• For sensing your patients’ and
their families’ discouragement• For encouraging them about
their progress and their future
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Thank you• For treating your patients like
regular people, not just a certain patient diagnosis
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Thank you• For creating opportunities for
your patients and their families to interact with and encourage each other
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Thank you• For your medical expertise• For your wisdom to help
families pull together toward their loved ones’ recovery
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Thank you• For letting children come to
their parent’s therapy sessions
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Thank you• For showing – not just telling –
your aphasic patients what to do in therapy
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Thank you• For allowing your hospitals to
support chaplaincy programs
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Thank you• For easing your patients into
their new lives by arranging home visits
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The Orton-Gillingham teaching method uses learning elements that are:
• Visual • Auditory• Phonetic• Kinesthetic
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Visual Drills Auditory Drills
• Say name & sound (e.g. F & fff)• Feel mouth• Trace in rice• Repeat name & sound
See the letter Hear the letter
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Don with Kay Hawley,
his tutor from the Dyslexia Institute
(aka)
Reading Center of Rochester
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Thank you• Speech Therapists• Kay Hawley, Don’s tutor • The Orton-Gillingham method• The TouchMath method• Don’s practice friends
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Thank you• For “taking it” when patients
say horrible things to you
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Thank you• For teaching your patients
to take responsibility for their own well-being
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Thank you• For training your patients how
to accomplish their ADLs • For helping them become
independent
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Thank you • For tending so diligently to
all of your patients’ complex health issues
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Thank you• For persisting until you find
anticonvulsants and other meds that work well for your patients
• For giving hope• For being kind
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Patients slough off your suggestions because of
• Denial• Pride• Embarrassment• Too much – too soon
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Thank you • For continuing to gently present
resources to your patients and their families
Keep on offering help
Perhaps on the “6th time” they will respond
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Thank you
• For helping patients navigate the myriad of issues involved in integration back into life
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Thank you• For your wise counsel
• For directing your patients
and their families toward a
more healthy way of living
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Thank you
• For inviting patients to work with your PT students
• For letting survivors give back
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Don chose not to get bitter• He did not have to deny our pain • He just did not want to let our
losses fester and control our lives
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What helped us cope and gave us hope:
• Medications have controlled Don’s seizures and other symptoms
• Don used a pool noodle with straps for swimming
• A pedal with strapped platform has allowed Don to ride a stationary recumbent exercise bike
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What helped us cope and gave us hope:
• We added cable TV to our exercise room• A test for driving readiness was available
through the OT department• We adapted our vehicles for Don with a
spinner knob, left foot accelerator, and convex rear-view mirrors
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What helped us cope and gave us hope:
• Specialized driving instruction was available for brain injury survivors
• A handicapped parking sticker and well maintained handicapped accommodations at businesses have made a big difference
• Shoe buttons have made dressing easier for Don
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What helped us cope and gave us hope:
• A wall-mounted shampoo dispenser has allowed Don to bathe independently
• We installed a higher toilet in our bathroom to help Don get up easier
• Don special ordered a left-handled recliner
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What helped us cope and gave us hope:
• Grab bars have provided safety• Don learned to back down staircases that have
no left railing• An answering machine or voicemail has
allowed us to receive accurate recorded phone messages
• Don has learned to defer to me at times for details
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Thanks to a large group of rehab professionals,
Don survived, so we could enjoy these times together. We are extremely grateful!
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Gratitudeby Melody Beattie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough,
and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
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It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home,
a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Beattie, Melodie. (1990). The Language of Letting Go. Center City, MN: Hazelden Publishing. Used by permission.
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Rehab Professionals
You make a huge difference in broken people’s
lives.Thank you – to all of you!