ARThi -using support from a fellow-survivor to useArt to rebuild Abilities.
I want to give help -as a Peer; and encourage -rather than "tell you to'- rebuild abilities of looking (that rather than just 'Observing') can lead to seeing, intereacting with that around you. This can help rebuild memories which helps in the ability to do tasks, again.
-To learn the ability to relate, and participate with other young people -though crucial- can be very hard!
I want to help to rebuild you, and your memories and give you to learn the abilities to link things. It is this ability that helped me relearn and to do taqsks again.
All this could helps move you on from just 'observing', to that of relating to, that loads to drawing the object. All this rebuilds that things happen over time.
Taking time to do things, can help one to
remember the image;
finishing drawing the drawing,
to change or then correct the what was drawn before;
builds the ability of looking, to seeing, and the relating to those around.
All this that plays a role in to help reintegration of those who were "sidelined".
Especially for adult with the "hidden disability" facing the "difficulties of overcoming a Traumatic Brain Injury".
Please see http://tbiart.blogspot.com/
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THE INTEREST OR INVOLVMENT OF ANY ART- OR OCCUPATIONAL- THERAPISTS (WHO MAY LIVE IN OR NEAR EDINBURGH), WHO WOULD LIKE TO HELP, OR WANT TO GET INVOLVED, PLEASE CONTECT ME ON
ebmv74arthi@googlemail.com
Thank you
About Me
- Help TBI survivors do tasks.
- Since my own recovery from a traumatic brain injuries (1988),I would to like to use peer support to help others, who like me also manage to recover. My reintegration took time. Instead of remaining 'sidelined' -and be just an 'Observer'- I hope to work with my peers, and help them learn to be able to participate again. So, instead of them remaining 'on the side' and just an Observer, I want to to help them, through doing art, to Look and See. This will help them to (re)develop and use many abilities, alongside their short- and longer- term memory, build the ability to do tasks, and talk/relate with other people and workers. *Also to learn to use either hand again, to listen, work with memory difficulties, to develop their ability to talk, relate, and become open again to make friends Before seeking employment, rebuild their ability to do tasks.
The artwork that can be produced by someone with a TBI is pretty amazing... even more amazing when the survivor had no previous training.
ReplyDeleteHI, This is a reply from ARThi!
ReplyDelete-About why my abilities in Art helped me, after recovery from my TBI.
To explain more, I was brought up at a Montessori school (Holland), where making a Drawing after a story is told, is done as it is intended that the story is thought about, and helps memory.