The classroom work continues to go well. We finished our section on therapeutic play and now are on the section about acquired brain injury The curriculum is designed for us but we can only get in about an hour a day of lecturing since it is so hot it's too hard for them to concentrate. Instead we turn he meterial into lots of games and do lots of lab and practice on one another. Most days we get to the clinic to have them observe a patient as well. We try to mix in other fun stuff too. Yesterday we had a speaker who presented on the use of dance with the disabled. The students are very interested and ask good questions about his kind of meterial nthey ask the hard questions too about life expectancy and the availability of special kinds of surgery. Its hard to explain the dichotomy between what the patient might need and what is available to them here. We are so blessed!
Today is my coteacher Kim's last day in the classroom so we are inviting the students to the house for a breakfast of north American pancakes. Should be fun. She has been great to teach with and I will certainly miss her.
A few shots from teaching. Practicing transfer techniques in the classroom and observing in the clinic with Kim.
Kim working with one of patients in the clinic as our students observe
Students practicing transfers in the classroom
