P.O. Box 23, Hanover Sta.
Boston, MA 02113-0001
(tel) 617-367-5815
(fax) 617-367-3337
e-mail: princeg@gis.net
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Title: One-Handed in a Two-Handed World
Content: It can happen to your clients and patients in a myriad of ways-permanently or temporarily. But however it happens, you have to figure out how to explain doing just about everything without something you've always had-without using your other hand. Imagine just getting here today. How would you reconfigure all those necessary activities of daily living for someone using one hand? Why re-invent the wheel? Author/Speaker Tommye-K. Mayer has written the book for managing just about everything with one hand based on her three secrets of managing single-handedly.
Audience: Professionals in all aspects of rehab (Nursing, OT, PT, Physiatry), Clients, Caregivers, Community.
Time: 45 minutes (Adaptation/customization negotiable to fit your event schedule)
Equipment podium with microphone holder and mike, preferably lapel-clip mike, transparency projector
Speaker Fee: Honorarium plus travel expenses and costs.
Title: Struck Before My Time: Who Me? Disabled?
Content: Tommye-K. Mayer was the child her pediatrician described as having the best muscular-skeletal development of any child he had ever seen. One year out of college at 23 years of age, Mayer survived a nearly-fatal thalamic cerebral hemorrhage. She awoke from a coma to a half-paralyzed body and face, unable to swallow.
Tommye-K. Mayer discusses the social, emotional, intellectual, and the physical impacts of stroke, of disability.[Adaptation available focusing on the effects for women specifically.]
Audience: Professionals in all aspects of rehab (Nursing, OT, PT, Physiatry), Clients, Caregivers, Community.
Time: 45 minutes (Adaptation/customization negotiable to fit your event schedule)
Equipment podium with microphone holder and mike, preferably lapel-clip mike, transparency projector
Speaker Fee: Honorarium
plus travel expenses and costs.
Title: Teaching Me to Run
Content: Ten years following survival from a nearly fatal thalamic cerebral hemorrhage, Author/Speaker Tommye-K. Mayer taught herself to run. Why and How, and What she gained from the experience are the focus of this talk. Do you remember how you learned to run? Neither did Mayer. But she did remember watching her niece learning to walk. Mayer will talk about what is the difference between running and walking and about how do you get from walking like a tin soldier with a brace and relying on a straight cane to running.
Audience: Professionals in all aspects of rehab (Nursing, OT, PT, Physiatry), Clients, Caregivers, Community.
Time: 45 minutes (Adaptation/customization negotiable to fit your event schedule)
Equipment podium with microphone holder and mike, preferably lapel-clip mike, transparency projector
Speaker Fee: Honorarium plus travel expenses and costs.
Title: Stroke Rehab; Sometimes You've Got To Laugh!
Content: Perfect for mid-Conference breakout session, the Conference Luncheon Speech, or the Conference closing. Tommye-K. Mayer will get everyone going again with hearty laughter as she shows and tells the lighter side of stroke rehabilitation-the really funny things of trying to get on after everything in the world has become really different from how the survivor once knew it.
Audience: Professionals in all aspects of rehab (Nursing, OT, PT, Physiatry), Clients, Caregivers, Community.
Time: 45 minutes (Adaptation/customization to fit your event schedule)
Equipment podium and lapel-clip microphone
Speaker Fee: Honorarium plus travel expenses and costs.
Title: Rehabilitation: Restoring to a former capacity?
Content: Perfect keynote presentation. Webster's defines Rehabilitation as "restoring to a former capacity." Rehabilitation and restoring to former capacities have been author Tommye-Karen Mayer's life since1981 when she awoke from a nearly fatal cerebral hemorrhage at the age of twenty-three. From this vantage point, of eighteen years experience, Mayer considers the many facets of that former capacity requiring rehabilitation/ restoration.
Audience: Professionals in all aspects of rehab (Nursing, OT, PT, Physiatry), Clients, Caregivers, Community.
Time: 1 hour (Adaptation/customization to fit your event schedule)
Equipment podium and lapel-clip microphone
Speaker Fee: Honorarium plus travel expenses and costs.
Title: Occupational Therapy from a Client's Perspective: It's outside-of-the box problem-solving
Content: The AOTA describes occupational therapy as, "Skills for the Job of Living" But how do clients perceive the work you do-the work you're studying to do? Like many of your clients, before surviving a nearly fatal thalamic cerebral hemorrhage pursuant to an AVM, Author/Speaker Tommye-K. Mayer didn't know much of anything about Occupational Therapy, or disability, or stroke. In Acute-care someone told her an Occupational Therapist would work with her stroke-paralyzed arm, and that a Physical Therapist would work on her leg. What more did her OT give her? What more than working on function? And what more could perhaps have been accomplished?
Time: 45 minutes. (Adaptation/customization negotiable to fit your event schedule)
Audience: Professionals in all aspects of rehab (Nursing, OT, PT, Physiatry), Clients, Caregivers, Community.
Equipment podium with microphone holder and mike or lapel-clip mike, transparency projector
Speaker Fee: Honorarium plus travel expenses and costs.
For more information, or to book Tommye-K. Mayer to speak at your next conference or meeting call Prince-Gallison Press at 617-367-5815, fax 617-507-0794, or write: P.O. Box 23--Hanover Station, Boston, MA 02113-0001