PRESENTATION TO STUDENTS
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 AND LOSS OF CONTROL LEADS TO A RECKLESS LIFE STYLE
- 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
- Speech 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 exercise
- 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 activities
PRESENT DAY LIVING
TRANSPORTATION
LIMITATIONS ON ACTIVITIES FOR AN INDEPENDENT MAN
CONSPICUOUSNESS
- Blending In With Peers On A Daily Basis
INDEPENDENCE COMPROMISED
- The Whole Tragedy Could Have Been Avoided
DISABLED VERSES ABLE BODY PERSPECTIVE
QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
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.
PROPOSED TIME FRAME
35 minutes for presentation on outlined subject matter.
5 minutes for question and answer session
Total Time: 40 minutes.