extracts SPEAKABILITY GROUP TALK Spring 2009 Edition

BRIGHTON AND HOVE GROUP
The Group is looking forward to the May Fair in Patcham, where
they will be holding a fundraising stall selling cakes and bric-a-brac.
They will also display Speakability leaflets and badges to
raise awareness of Aphasia and the work that we do. During
May, the members will also be visiting Bentley Wildfowl and
Motor Museum, set on a beautiful Sussex estate.

SUSSEX GROUP
In April, the members of the SASH Group welcomed Lindsey Coleman, Speakability’s Aphasia
Projects Assistant, to their meeting. The Group discussed the campaign for this year’s ‘Speak
About Aphasia Month’ and the possibility of holding a coffee morning. Members also brought in
some of their favourite objects, which provoked some lively conversation! Next month, the Group will be meeting in their local garden centre. Just a reminder that Roy Pennington, the Group’s Treasurer, has set up a blog at the following Web address:
http://sussexaphasiaself-help.blogspot.com/

Spring edition of Group Talk

Recent contact from HQ:

Dear Group Members,

It has been lovely speaking to many of you over the last few months and hearing about your upcoming trips and planned fundraising events for ‘Speak About Aphasia Month’.

For all those who have returned their completed ‘Speak About Aphasia Month’ forms, we will be sending out the SAAM pack to you within the next fortnight. This will include leaflets, badges, a press release and petition. If your Group hasn’t yet had a chance to discuss ‘Speak About Aphasia Month’ there is still plenty of time. Your support is hugely appreciated and is so important in making this year’s campaign a success.

Please find attached the Spring edition of Group Talk (see later post, when I can extract it from my e-mail bucket: Blog Ed ), together with a copy of a BOARD GAME kindly provided by the Poole Group.

Paper copies of the newsletter will shortly be sent to all Group Chairs, Secretaries or main contacts. Please accept our apologies for the delay in posting this edition of Group Talk – we have been having problems with our franking machine, but hope to have it sorted very soon!

The deadline for the Summer edition of Group Talk is Friday 17^th July.

Sending you all our very best wishes,

Lindsey

Lindsey Coleman
Aphasia Projects Assistant
Speakability Charity No. 295094 Telephone: 020 7261 9572

Address: 1 Royal Street , London , SE1 7LL
Website: www.speakability.org.uk

May meeting Wyevale Garden Centre at 3pm

On Tuesday 12th May, we will meet in the café at the Wyevale Garden Centre at 3pm for a cup of tea and a cake after you’ve looked at the plants and all the things for the garden - and perhaps before you purchase those plants you picked!
PLEASE RING OR EMAIL JEANNETTE BY 6TH MAY AND LET HER KNOW WHETHER YOU CAN COME OR NOT.
ADDRESS AND EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE END OF THIS LETTER.

APHASIADISIAC event festival

yes, I got to the event last night and discovered it was for tomorrow (i.e. now) -- the body clock gets upset by fake Bank Holidays -- at least it was not the day before --
anyway, it was what is said on the tin: modern ballet with knobs-no, or rather with rubber bricks (two lovers get walled in and out)..........
I was looking forward to seeing how the fractured speech patterns that is aphasia would be symbolised in dance, given that the bit of the brain what gets mashed up effects both speech and mobility: would that be reflected in the dance?
a little bit -- there were occasional references to "no-yes" and other wrong words experiences (the coat put on backwards...) -- otherwise, it traded on the word "aphasia" rather than exploring the reality which is aphasia....

Traffic Penalty Tribunals and Ballet

Ballet, Theatre and Traffic Penalty Tribunals:

I went to the Traffic Penalty Tribunal a few days ago at Brighton Race Course to remind me how disabled-friendly it was (very good, though the wheel-chair loo as a long way away) and the kind of cases they deal with (on one case, the Adjudicator reminded the Council that they have discretion to cancel if mitigating circumstances warrant it -- they agreed to drop it.....) and it was free.
And tonight, I am going to the Ballet about Aphasia (see previously blogged) and it costs £10.
A lot of council and NGO meetings I get to are a bit like theatre and they are free, too.

See
http://www.trafficpenaltytribunal.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=4126&documentID=132

try sports therapy

Frances tells us of a Sports therapy masseur who is well worth visiting:


mr thomasz nowak
sports therapy/ masseur
16 malvern street
hove bn3 3yr
mobile: 07765698214
tomasz.nowy@hotmail.com
www.physiopointcentre.com

A boards and obstructions on the highway

It will be interesting if the council bite the bullet and outlaw "A" boards and obstructions on the highway in a proper way, such that the disabled do not have to wend their way through chicanes in the pavements in Brighton and Hove......
Improvements to Access on Public Highways Pavements
Licensing Committee (Non Licensing Act 2003 Functions)Friday, 24th April, 2009 3.00pm
BRIGHTON TOWN HALL