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AN EXPRESSION |
Making Tired Eyes Smile® is a guide to draw out
the intangibles, such as joy, respect, contribution, creativity that flavor
everyone’s lives including those with Alzheimer’s disease.
- It is a weekly
half-hour for a sojourner with Alzheimer’s to influence an outcome, to make
choices and to participate in community.
- The language arts system is a vehicle
to honor where each sojourner is at this passage. The guide provides sixty complete lesson plans that a
volunteer will use to implement a year long program in the language arts
designed for those needing memory support. It
not only offers a self-contained system for facilitating a successful and
rewarding series, but also encourages the creativity of the facilitator. Experimenting with different formats for enticing stories
and poems with seniors with Alzheimer’s begins the summer of 2000.
- Making
Tired Eyes Smile® settles into its present format January 2003. Now Making
Tired Eyes Smile® is in the early stages of expansion. Since it is a grass
roots effort every attempt is made to not only build a presence of this program
in many communities, but to also keep expenses at a minimum (for both the
facility and the author). With this in mind Making Tired Eyes Smile® is
offered in various formats. The Options summarizes what is included in each format.
- Complete table of contents in PDF Format.
The various formats include:
● The Making
Tired Eyes Smile® Complete System -
Includes components listed below. Over 600 pages. You also can purchase separate individual components of the system.
● The
Tutorial with complimentary Enrichment section
● Lesson
plans (plan, picture cue, poems, stories and aids)
48
plans (includes the monthly selections and the celebration plans)
A month
(4 plans) at a time (included in 48 plans)
A
baker’s dozen celebration plans (included in 48 plans)
12
Bonus plans
4 plans
– Other Traditions – no picture cues
● Readings
to Prompt Conversations in Family Support Groups
● The
Sampler – Summary outline, a six-week trial
● Leave
an activity – Skill Cards with Quotes
● Special groupings created
from the Making Tired Eyes Smile® System:
A
Collection of Poems
My
Family: Stories to Prompt Stories
● Additions to the Making Tired
Eyes Smile® System:
The
Diary – My Unedited and Uneven Steps (Annotated)
Weaving
Whimsy – Stories and poetry from a circle of friends
We
Are Thankful – Expressions of gratitude
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