Talk tools

Some interesting info received from Sheila the other day. Sara Rosenfield-Johnson was in SA recently for a seminar. See link (click on title) for her website. See mail below from Elna Rudman.

Are any of you familiar with this? If and when Sara comes to SA again, would any of you be interested in attending her seminar? Feel free to contact the writer of this email for more information at :
Manuela Aspeling
E-mail Address(es):
caspeling@oldmutualpfa.com

rgds
Elna

Hallo Elna,
we didn't have a computer for 2 weeks, but now I am able to write again.
Just wanted to let you know that the Talk Tools seminar was absolutely phenomenal. I am convinced that you could get Roald off the feeding tube and he could eat normal again with Sara Rosenfield-Johnson's method. After this seminar I knew once again that our children didn't get the attention and help they could have
gotten much earlier and so many things could have been prevented. We are trying to get Sara again over next year.
Unfortunately she is booked out till next year February and then we need to get quite some speech therapists and parents together to attend the seminars so that the costs can be covert.
Our speech therapist is also very impressed. After working for two weeks with Celina she made really good progress, the lips are slowly coming together und are showing far more movement as well as the jaws. Her eating and drinking have also improved.
It is just amazing. Sara's methods and the way she is working with the children in a fun way are just absolutely great. She is a very humble women. On the side she is doing charity so that poor people can get her tools as well. I had 2 stunning seminar days and can only recommend it to everybody who got a child with feeding or speech problems.
Please feel free to send this E-mail to others.
Love
Manuela

Another e-mail to Sheila from Manuela:
Thanks for your interest. For more info check www.talktools.net. You will find different articles from Sara and you can have a look at the tools she is working with.
Re Traders is the company in Johannesburg which is selling the stuff. Speak to Dee-Ann Panzera.
Dee-Ann Panzera – Operations Manager

R E Traders and Therapy Tools

Tel : +27 (11) 705 1281 / 465 6219

Fax: +27 (11) 705 1281

Mobile: +27 (82) 413 1535

They also have a catalogue and are always very quick to send them out to people who are interested. They will have a list of speech therapists who did the seminar in February and will start working with the Talk Tools therapy. I meet with Dee-Ann this weekend in Cape Town and will speak to her to help to connect you or your speech therapist with a speech therapist who was at the seminar. If you got more questions feel free to contact me and also to forward this e-mail to others.

God bless you

Manuela( Mother of Celina, 4 year old near drowning survivor with brain injury)

Sheila has suggested that if there is enough people interested we could perhaps hire a bus or something to get to this and other seminars as a group. I am thinking that maybe we could organise a sponsorship but I don't know that much about organising that kind of thing.