Month: March 2016

Michael was a Special Educator in New York City for 26 years helping pioneer the use of digital video and computers by engaging hundreds of language-impaired students in tech activities promoting metacognition, communication and volition.

After retirement he worked to promote the use of technology with special education and to promote neurodiverse creativity n the Arts. He has presented at conferences in Orlando and Pensacola. He explains his work on Tech4Autism.com and his YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL95EF449E1AF238C8

The goal of his current project, Neurodiverse City is to improve social outcomes for the disabled by helping school age children to develop empathy for the people behind the label.

Find more information on Michael and his work on Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/mleventhal

You can also contact him through email Leventhal.Michael@gmail.com

In recognition of Brain Injury Awareness Month, we’ll be featuring several survivor’s who have become published authors about their journeys. We all have a story. If you doubt your ability to voice it by becoming an author, you may reconsider. For others looking for survivor stories and how they’ve learned to cope-You’ll have a wide variety to choose from here. Great show you can listen to an author or two at a time in archive if you missed live!

Deborah Schlag: AwakeningsCenterNC.com

Dr. Cheryle Sullivan: tbijourney.com

Michael Ciafone: meandmichael.org

Terry Smith: TerrySmithBooks.com

Tim Bransfield: alifeinterrupted.net

Amy Van Patten Ofenbeck: Amazon

Jeff Sebell: tbisurvivor.com (unable to come due to illness)

Kim Justus: inaflash.org

Gary Sinclair is a Cyberphysiologist and winner of Outstanding Transpersonal Contribution, in the field of Bridging Body, Mind & Spirit. In his personal life, he has overcome 50% lung capacity at birth to full, 14 years of MS with 80% mobility loss to healed, and recently 14 strokes with paralysis to no signs of a stroke in each case within 30 minutes. This is one interview YOU MUST HEAR and you know why! His latest book that cracks the code for healing titled ‘Healing Memories in Seconds.’ will be featured on PBS TV. Gary has personally taught over 3,000 people how to neutralize their worst memory every at PTSD level in 20 seconds with his latest work. Yup, WE ARE IN AWE of this new therapy work and you will be also.

See More at his Website: http://www.garysinclair.com

Dr Maria Romanas is back in the house! As a Dr of Pathology, and a Brain Injury Survivor .. Dr Maria blends scientific based knowledge, with the human challenges of being a survivor. The past year has been a whirlwind of change for her, and for people who function best with routine, transition can really rock our boat!

Maria’s professional and personal life were limited by a severe TBI suffered during a roll-over car accident in 1984. She doesn’t have an outwardly obvious disability, but cognitive impairments were compromising her quality of life.

In spring 2013, Dr Maria went through an 8-week program of intensive holistic cognitive rehabilitation (HCR) that trained her to become her own self-therapist. She learned exactly what was wrong with her brain and how to deliberately use her conscious mind to prevent her impairments from causing disabled functioning. She has be gracious enough to share those tools with us in the past. Now once again life on life’s terms, has her revisiting all tools she accumulated to maintain a stable life.