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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:05:44 -0400
thank you for the great story I believe that the mental patterning caused by telling the same story over and over or by telling the same type of stories i.e.; jack stories can be helpful The best of good fortune your friend tomm > I am a retired nurse and have doing storytelling for a number of years.I began group telling in the local nursing home 12 years ago.I went in and did an assessment after 6 weeks of 1 hour each week with low cognitive level Alzheimer patients.In working with the activities director we found that there was a noticeable change in the sociality of these individuals .We also found that some who were non verbal (after the 3rd week) would enter in a word at a time with the story that had been repeated each week. | ||