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Amanda I'm still chuckling over your suggestion of the bugle and/or drum. I'm not teaching nervous learners anymore. Ray Rayilyn Brown Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:33 AM Subject: Re: piano music > This may sound slightly patronising - it's not meant that way - a trick > I've > found for helping nervous learners wit new ideas is to relate it to what > they > already know. > My mother wouldn't try an electronic keyboard - told it was an electric > piano > with added noises, she plonked happily away, even if not using all the > gadgets - "piano" was less threatening. > > Quoting rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>: > >> Moneesha - I knew how to use the computer BEFORE PD. Learning new >> stuff >> now is difficult and upsetting or I would be on top of stuff. My guess >> was >> that Prem was not computer savvy before PD and I have seen how upset well >> people get who are not computer types or have never learned to type.when >> they try to learn it. I have a friend who can't email. My mother's >> hands >> shook when I tried to get her to use the computer. It helps to have been >> ahead of the game. >> Ray >> Rayilyn Brown >> Director AZNPF >> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation >> [log in to unmask] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Moneesha Sharma" <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:38 AM >> Subject: Re: piano music >> >> >> > Prem does not still have any tremors, so that was not the issue. He >> > was >> > never terribly computer savvy and I found that he was having difficulty >> > remembering the sequence needed to get online and access his mail. >> > That >> > was >> > the first discourager. Then he found that a left click was often a >> > right >> > click as well. Discourager number two. I was just thinking of a >> > single >> > mouse when I told me that he could not read too well off the screen. >> > Discourager number three. That is when he gave up. I don't think he >> > misses >> > it too much. It is the guitar that he really misses. >> > >> > Moneesha >> > >> > >> > >> > 2008/11/25 <[log in to unmask]> >> > >> >> For the computer- has he tried resting his forearm on a rolled towel ? >> >> it acts as a shock-absorber. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >> > mailto:[log in to unmask] >> > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >> mailto:[log in to unmask] >> In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn