Lindamood-Bell’s visualizing and verbalizing program to restore reading comprehension starts with an image, a sentence, and builds up to a chapter and then finally chapter by chapter, just like normal reading. You visualize as you read; at the end, you verbalize. It’s a lot more difficult to visualize several chapters in a row then verbalize…
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Desired Change?
Big desire. Impossible ambition. Through blogs, books, and websites. What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? Change the system of diagnosis and treatment of brain injury from symptom based to objective tests and effective, permanent non-drug, non-surgical treatments. Change standard medical education to recognize concussion, long COVID,…
The Incense Tradition
My parents and I arrived in Canada with little but our clothes, my newborn brother, and a few, small things from India like incense burners. Burning incense in Canada felt like a traditional tie to our burgeoning family life.
Health First
My guiding principle in brain injury recovery, heck life, is health above everything else. Without health, especially without treating the neurons, it’s virtually impossible to work, socialize, enjoy things. What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? Following my principle of health first and setting myself up for success, I didn’t try…
Do Colours Regenerate the Retina?
Regenerate the retina? Is that possible? I read a long time ago a paper that talked about using light to do that with rat eyeballs. And my own vision change didn’t happen just because of the brain injury. Vision is eyeballs + brain. How do you tease apart what increase in my vision is from…
Toronto Hydro’s PowerLens for Solar Customers
PowerLens: Toronto Hydro’s web portal for customers who generate power. That’s you with the solar panels. Solar panels generate energy to power your home and maybe net you credits. Through Ontario’s net metering program, the solar inverter sends any excess energy your home doesn’t consume to the hydro grid. PowerLens also tracks consumption data, the…
Solar Power in T.O. for Climate Action
Solar panels have advanced in technology and dropped in price significantly in the last decade. They are now over 20 percent efficient: the panels convert 20 percent or more of the sunlight hitting them into usable electrical energy. Although purchasing and installing today’s solar panels will mean that you’ll have less efficient panels than someone…
Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts — A Review
I believe I first heard about Prolifiko, Bec Evans and Chris Smith’s company, on Twitter. I’ve been through a couple of incarnations of their methods to help writers write. When I first heard a few years ago about their free 7-day Writing Sprints, which ran the first week of the month, I signed up and…
Joined Bluesky!
At 9:28AM, I downloaded the Bluesky app, entered the invite code my Tweep Karen Walton (Canadian screenwriter) had just sent me via Twitter DM, and joined Bluesky! I’d entered my email last Fall on their waiting list, then realizing I wasn’t going to get an invite code anytime soon, last week I launched a Substack…