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

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

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5. 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

6. UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN

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

8. 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
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Social & Sexual behavior

9. 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

10. 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

11. OCCIPITAL LOBE VISION Processing visual information Color perception
Occipital Lobe (birth – 2yrs)
VISION
Color perception
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12. 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

13. LEFT vs RIGHT BRAIN
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15. FRONTAL LOBE

16. PARIETAL LOBE

17. TEMPORAL LOBE

19. Development

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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 ( 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

23. 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

24. 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

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

26. 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
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27. Enhancing the riding experience Let’s use language AND get creative
THIRD STOP – TEMPORAL LOBE
Follow commands or directions,
Identifying body parts
Word meanings

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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Thanks so much for your time