My consultant popped in during the first hour of my session and read to me a whole paragraph. I ensured I understood the idea before she began reading. The idea: as she reads, I’m to visualize — create images and moving pictures in my mind — of what she’s reading. When she’s finished, I tell…
Category: Treatment
Treatment of brain injury that aims to heal neurons and restore functionality, cognitive skills, emotions, heart and temperature regulation, etc.
Week Two: Polar Bear Club Leads Visualizing In Lindamood-Bell Reading Comprehension
Tis a strange thing to be wearing a light cotton shirt while one’s clinician (instructor) is wrapped up in a scarf and jacket. We’re still getting used to seeing each other from different time zones, different day of the week, opposite seasons. I noticed right away that the first Sentence by Sentence was tougher than…
Week One Lindamood-Bell Reading Comprehension Progress Report
All of a sudden, my first week at Lindamood-Bell Australia was done! Never so happy as to hear “we’ll stop there” as time was up in my second hour Thursday night. Yet vying with the fatigue was this alertness, this up state that my neurodoc described as excitement, excitement at starting something new and at…
Day Three of Lindamood-Bell Reading Comprehension Visualizing and Verbalizing Program
Not much to report on day three. Things are settling into a pattern. I’m getting used to them being in winter, with people being sick and dressed in puffy vests or jackets, while I’m slowly burning up in Toronto heat. I’ve met all the people I will work with, I believe. I hope so. Learning…
Day Two Visualizing and Verbalizing Reading Comprehension with Lindamood-Bell
This isn’t going to be a day-by-day blog about my reading retraining with Lindamood-Bell! But I learnt more about one of the concepts: the main idea. And I learnt about which stories aid recall well. To recap: the steps in learning reading comprehension are Read a sentence or multiple sentences (I read via the document…
Day One with Lindamood-Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing Reading Comprehension
I was tense. I was nervous. Not about the program, but about the tech. Bell, in its imitable way, had decided to move my high-speed upgrade date and, as my ISP had warned, the new date was a maybe, too. I went into a tither over what I was supposed to do. I suddenly had…
Reading after Brain Injury: Making the Decision to Try Restoring It Again
So after stressing and dithering and talking and talking with my health care team, I’ve taken the plunge and will soon restart my efforts to take back my reading from my brain injury.I wrote previously about a recent comprehensive reading assessment with Lindamood-Bell, a US company devoted to training/restoring reading and math to students and…
Reading Evaluation Results for Comprehension Issues After Concussion
I wrote last time about my reading evaluation. This post is on my results. When you have a brain injury and rehab tells you that you can’t read anymore, you assume that they’ve done a thorough assessment and analysis of your reading cognition. You’d assume wrong. Reaction In 2005, five years after I was told…
Moving On From Reading
There’s a huge irony in my reading rehab journey: I thought long and hard about what it would take to restore reading after brain injury; I wrote about my theoretical program; I’ve done bits and pieces of that program; I am now receiving the bare minimum of help for reading. My second and third posts…