COMMUNICATION: What’s all the Talk about? Jane Ladmirault M.A.,CCC-SLP Baton Rouge General Medical Center Speech Pathologist Rehab Services Supervisor

COMMUNICATION: EXPRESSION FACIAL EXPRESSIONS GESTURES WRITING SIGN LANGUAGE AAC DEVICES SPEAKING

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COMMUNICATION: What’s all the TALK about? Presentation Goals: 1. Differentiate between LEFT brain and RIGHT brain communication disorders 2. Identify ways to modify and enhance the riding experience for a child or adult with communication difficulties. 3. Provide caregiver training techniques and strategies for carryover in the home environment

UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN

I. CEREBRUM FRONTAL PARIETAL OCCIPITAL TEMPORAL II. CEREBELLUM III. BRAINSTEM

FRONTAL LOBE Attention Empathy Emotion Initiation Judgment CONCRETE THINKING Problem solving Impulse control Prefrontal cortex (12-22yrs)-JUDGMENT- short term memory and attention Speaking Personality Frontal Lobe (3-12yrs) CONCRETE THINKING Decision making Organization Believuetoddlers.files.wordpress.com Social & Sexual behavior

PARIETAL LOBE Processing sensory information related to: SENSORY LANGUAGE PROCESSING Temperature Taste Touch Body Orientation Parietal Lobe (birth – 6yrs) TOUCH Spatial awareness Recognize faces Reading Knowing right from left

TEMPORAL LOBE Language Comprehension Following directions Temporal Lobe (birth -6yrs) HEARING Language Comprehension Following directions Long term memory Identifying objects TEMPORAL LOBE Naming objects HEARING Word meanings

OCCIPITAL LOBE VISION Processing visual information Color perception Occipital Lobe (birth – 2yrs) VISION Color perception Believuetoddlers.files.wordpress.com

CEREBELLUM BRAINSTEM Temperature Sleep Fine muscle control alertness Skill memory Control of voluntary movement Heart rate Digestion Coordination of voluntary movement Swallowing Breathing Balance CEREBELLUM BRAINSTEM Cerebellum (Birth – 1yr) BALANCE AND COORDINATION Brainstem (Developed at birth) SURVIVAL MECHANISMS

LEFT vs RIGHT BRAIN Villasophiasalon.wordpress.com

FRONTAL LOBE

PARIETAL LOBE

TEMPORAL LOBE

Development

Communication development Infants – cries, burps, coughs, sneezes, reflexive vocalizations expand to Cooing and attending to voice, squealing, growling, raspberries They continue on by recognizing their name, turning their head toward voice, laughing, smiling, babbling

Communication development By 9 months babies will respond to simple commands, attend to pictures and have increased the sounds (consonants and vowels) By a year they are beginning to identify body parts and start to say a few words. They begin to imitate and are following more directions during play

Communication development By 18 months, they can imitate words, follow more directions, imitate pretend play and are speaking more words By 2 yrs they’re pointing to pictures in a book, to body parts and their vocabulary is huge (200-300 words) They keep growing and learning and start to use sentences, understand locations like in, on, under; they respond to Wh questions and by 4 are talking about activities and events and objects not even present

Let’s enhance the riding experience Think about your current state – what does a lesson look like for the child or adult start to finish? Go Back to the brain – Let’s get started

Wholistic Riding BRAINSTEM – deep breathing, relaxation. Make time for stretching before the ride, blowing bubbles, whistling The Tack and the Mount CEREBELLUM - you got the Balance and Coordination goals set

Enhancing the riding experience Let’s use language AND get creative FIRST STOP – FRONTAL LOBE Feelings Emotions Initation Problem solving SPEECH expression

Enhancing the riding experience Let’s use language AND get creative SECOND STOP – PARIETAL LOBE What do you see and hear What can you smell or touch Flowers Smelly markers R-L

Enhancing the riding experience Let’s use language AND get creative THIRD STOP – TEMPORAL LOBE Follow commands or directions, Identifying body parts Word meanings

Enhancing the riding experience Let’s use language AND get creative THE FINISH LINE CELEBRATE THE LESSON - EMOTIONS

Wholistic Riding LAST STOP The dismount The cleaning up let’s go back to the brainstem and finish up with deep breathing, relaxation, possibly stretching, and hydration

PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS Talk about 3 things you did during your riding session Tell me what was the most fun and why How do you think your horse felt today? What makes you think that? Have a sketch book and colors or markers or colored pencils and draw pictures of your lesson Read a book about horses and label the things you see

PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS Play the Hokey Pokey Make up a song about a horse Play a matching game Pretend play with your horse and other farm animals Focus on new words and expanding vocabulary READ and discuss new words –what do they mean MUSIC ART Tell jokes

KUDDOS TO YOU You know your horses! Make sure to know your rider and his/her history too Where he came from, his likes, and dislikes-what motivates him Find out his therapy goals Use your left brain to organize and individualize your sessions Then use your right brain to be creative

Thanks so much for your time