Brain training

I'm so sorry to hear about your brother, Paul.  I have a friend that had a brain injury a few years ago, but his emotions were affected more than his memory.  I guess it all depends on what part of the brain is damaged.

I would think that with someone with an injury like your brother, it would be important if you could personalize the game to include photos or personal stories that would mean something to that individual.  I'm not sure how easy that could be accomplished in Storyline.  Maybe you could use text entry to have a relative or friend enter stories involving the injured person.  Or perhaps dummy photos could be replaced with personal photos in the published files.  Another route would be to make games that stimulate brain function. Google brain games for some examples.  I gave my friend the  Lumosity game.

I'm interested to see what you come up with.

Sounds great Jeff....Looking forward to what you come up with. 

Thanks for your kind words and sharing your thoughts about Lumosity. I just checked this out on Google and  think that it could be realy helpful.

Hey Paul, sorry to here about your brother hope he recovers.  This sounds like a great idea. It also sounds like a great idea for a challenge perhaps you could set a style/look and feel and we could all do a few slides for you.  I would love to build something like this.  We could all give you the Storyline files and you could amalgamate it all.

Good luck!

Thank you for thinking with me Phil. This sounds realy great. I'll share the stylesheet asap!

Thanks

I don't have any brilliant ideas for this just yet Paul, put I wanted to let you know how sorry I am to hear about Marcel. If you do get the stylesheet together I'd love to contribute a few slides as well.

Paul,

My Uncle had a massive stroke and I was thinking of putting something together much like you are. He loves music so I thought something like "Name that tune" would work for him. We use to play that game while drinking beer and listening to the radio together....Sorry to hear about your Brother and good luck.

Paul

Hi Paul, a great worthwhile project. I have also had brain injury and survived very well. I am involved with community theater and exercising my memory is a great way to recover. I have also done oral history programs with my community radio station here in Australia. Where I interviewed, (ordinary folk) about their lives. I interviewed them twice once to get some background and then to do the final recording. So you can then ask rhetorical questions such as " I understand that you went to school in...." etc My suggestion is to sit with Marcel and audio recorder and get him to tell you his life story. It will be great for him,  and you can use it as a basis for your Project. Also dig out family snaps and videos. My Father in law is over 85 now and I always make a point of engaging him in conversation often about the past, he was interested in cars, so we have a common ground, we often discuss old Jaguars etc. Please make sure that you involve Marcel in the process. A great project for the whole family well done :-)

Some really cool ideas have come by already. I've been thinking about this topic and, depending on the type and amount of brain injury, there are quite a few things you could play with. My initial though was pairing things. Depending on their ability to read or understand what is said you could either use text or audio voice-over to ask questions and give feedback.

I think we should not use a lot of animation but Keep It Simple Stupid. Here's a basic setup. Check out the Attachment.

A follow-up question could lead into: What do you do with a spoon > Eat soup, Paint a wall, Brush your teeth

You can make it more personal using pictures of family or personal items.

I like this idea of recording the persons life story so they can hear it back. Sounds like a great trigger.

Paul, my wife came with a cool site http://www.pictoplanner.net/

They use it at work to help people with autism plan their day and give clarity who's on duty that day. The key is the use of 'Picto's' combined with audio and other visual cues (such as the pictures of the nurses) I can see something like this turned into a more personal version. Again, all depending on the specific needs of the patient.

Thank you for your kind words Nancy, I really appreciate your support!

Thanks for sharing your ideas and your kind words Paul. I know my brother loves to hear music, so I think this will come very handy

Hi Thomas, glad to hear that you survived very well. I really like the idea of interviewing as a base for this project. Thanks for sharing.

Great and inspiring ideas Jeff....as always....Thx for sharing the file!

Hi Paul,

I'm so sorry to hear about your brother. I'm glad that he finally came out of the coma, and I hope he makes a speedy recovery.

I did a little research online and found that puzzles were a good way to stimulate the brain, so I made this puzzle quiz.

I hope it helps!

Allison

Hi Allison, Thank you for your kind words and sharing the puzzle game. Great idea!

Loving the drag and drop puzzles Allison. That's really well done!

Paul - so sorry to hear about your brother, and what you're doing for him is amazing! After reading your message and seeing some examples, I immediately thought of http://lumosity.com. Do you think something like this might be appropriate? 

I played for awhile back and over the course of three months, improved my own speed, memory, attention, flexibility, and problem solving. It even has a tracker to show your progress and improvement. 

@Paul: Glad you liked it!

@Jeff: Thanks!

For anyone that is interested, I added it to the Downloads section as a template. Enjoy! :)

Hi Ashley - Thanks you for your kind words. Great to hear about your experience with Lumosity. I already checked the website and I think that the idea behind this tool can be a good base for the training that I have in mind. I almost finished a template that I will share in this topic.

Hi everyone,

I would like to share the first draft for this brain training with you. The concept is based on your input and some suggestions were discussed with the rehabilitation center where my brother is at the moment.

He still has a decent memory loss, but his recovery is becoming increasingly more visible.

Once Again ... thanks for your input to this first draft.

If you have any more suggestions please let me know.

Demo

StoryFile

I'm glad to hear your brother is doing better, Paul. 

Comment on the template:

I really like the gamified approach you took. The nav menu is highly creative and I dig how you track learner progress.

I feel like each topic could use sub nodes. The Family topic, for example, has 3 levels I need to complete. I'd like those levels to be visually communicated. First time it made me go back I thought I missed something in the previous level. Of course that's because I didn't read the caption box:-)

@Paul: I love it! Nice work Paul. 

@David: I totally agree with you about adding the different levels on the menu.