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i will try to interest my husband enough to participate trauti merry xmas to all! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Meg Duggan" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 10:05 AM Subject: Citizen Science Project Moving Forward! > http://www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden.html > > The above is a TED talk about using ones own brain to change its inner > workings - fascinating stuff. > > I'm just finishing up the design of a small citizen science project that I > hope anyone interested will join. > > Those of us participating will "self cue." There will probably be 3 > groups of us - one cuing to swallow, one to speak loud, one to pick up the > feet and swing the arms. We will then self report how well cuing as > helped with drooling, communiciation and movement/walking. > > I've sourced some very cheap LED lights on a clip - we are working on > making them twinkle every 30 minutes. Participants can clip these on > their watches (or where ever) and every 30 minutes the twinkle will be a > reminder to cue. (twinkle - shout something out!) > > We'll start with a very simple self-reporting measure, maybe 5 to 7 days > of a simple log (20 X I was asked to repeat myself) (I stumbled 6 times) > and get everyone a baseline. Then we will cue, and do the same self > reporting. We'll gather the information once a week and I will analyze it > to see if we can find any statistical significance in our self-cuing. > > I think it sounds easy and fun - and we might well come up with something > of value! > > Please join the project - I can pay for the little cuing lights, and I'll > do the analysis. We'll share the information with everyone. Maybe we can > get it rolling among our own support groups or local organizations and > build up something meaningful. > > Its a holiday gift to ourselves. Speaking of which - best of the season > to you all! > > Meg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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