MY PERSONAL HISTORY

• Review of My Jr. High School Years: Academics, Extra-curricular Activities (Sports, Music), and Personal Priorities.
• Review How in High School, My Priorities Changed - Setting the Stage for Disaster.

CHANGING PRIORITES LEAD TO LOSS OF CONTROL OF . . .

• School Attendance - "Friends" Replaced Priority of Education
• Alcohol - the Priorities of Religion and Family were Replaced by Car and Social Life
• Respect for the Advice of Responsible Adults was Replaced by Desire for Approval by Friends
• Self-respect and the Personal Qualities I had Developed.

THE ACCIDENT

• Details and Cause
• Pronounced Dead At The Scene

BEING IN A COMA

• No Sense of Time
• Disorientation
• Nightmarish Events

REHABILITATION

• Speach Therapy
  • learning basic sounds/words
  • rehearsing sequences of events and other thoughts
• Re-learning to Eat
• Physical Therapy
  • balance exercises
  • crawling
  • walking exercises
• Academics
  • mental exercies
  • home teaching
  • returning to high school part-time with outpatient therapy occupying the remainder of the day.
• Returning to School Full-time
  • culture shock, change from pre-accident high school to post-accident high school
  • dealing with the loss of old friends and activitiesxt

TRANSPORTATION

LIMITATIONS ON ACTIVITIES FOR A YOUNG MAN

CONSPICUOUSNESS

• Blending in with Peers on a Daily Basis

INDEPENDENCE COMPROMISED

• The Whole Tragedy Could Have Been Avoided

Students usually have a lot of questions - more than can be answered in the time available during the assembly. I generally try to make myself available for more questions after the session.

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35 minutes for presentation on outlined subject matter.

5 minutes for question and answer session

Total Time: 40 minutes.

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