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February 2008 Visits Visit on 29 February 2008 - Thong Teck Home for Senior Citizens (TTHSC) Hi, fellow volunteers,
Please join me in welcoming volunteers,
Constance Ong and Alicia Isreal. Their dogs had gone through the
temperament test. I am sure they will join our PAT team in our forth
coming next visit(s). We aslo welcome Paolo Ng and Ma Lee who came in as
helping hands who help us to handle our dogs and interact with the
residents. Visit on 23 February 2008 - Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled (BHID) Hi, fellow volunteers,
Once again, through team work we could achieve: Cognitive / Communication / Socialisation Therapy - encourage residents to call and remember the names of the dogs. - flash card play to encourage residents to read and speak and give commands to the dogs - stimulate conversation Motor / Physical / Sensory Therapy - walking exercise with therapy dogs - encourage residents to stroke and touch the dogs I believe you have seen my earlier email about the up-coming PAT visit to TTHSC on Friday 29th February. We plan to include some of our "customise" activities for TTHSC residents. Mediacorp Channel 5 will be there to film our PAT session. Please come and join us in bringing joy and happiness to our fellow senior citizens of TTHSC. Warmest regards Charlie Ho Visit on 17 February 2008 - Institute of Mental Health (IMH)
Hi fellow volunteers,
Our die-hard volunteers and doggies made
time for our friends at
IMH,
despite being busy with the Chinese New Year festivities. In
the spirit of Chinese New Year, we presented the residents of Ward
66A with 2 mandarin oranges each. They also had some desserts, candy
and fortune cookies, which, by the looks of it, they enjoyed very
much!
During the session, the residents
interacted with the volunteers as well as our therapy dogs. We
sorely missed some of our faithful dogs, in particular Vickie (maltese)
and Bambi (silky terrier) who sadly have not been well. We wish them
both a speedy recovery and hope to see them back in action again
soon. We were also very pleased to have Chin Yang, who is our
regular volunteer Lishan's father, join us with her dog McMug. It's
good to know that even though Lishan is away, her dad can represent
the father and daughter PAT team, and we hope to see Chin Yang join
us on a regular basis.
Many thanks to the following volunteers
for giving up their precious Sunday afternoon nap / golf / CNY
visiting etc etc, to come with their beloved therapy dogs to bring
cheer to the residents:
Through this session, we achieved the
following:
Cognitive / Communication /
Socialisation Therapy
- encourage patients to remember the
names of the dogs.
- provide stimulation, conversation
and companionship
Motor / Physical / Sensory Therapy
- encourage therapy exercise by
walking with the dog
- helping the residents who are
depressed and lonely to response more subtly to the
unconditional love that our therapy dogs offer.
We hope to see you all at our upcoming
visits to MINDsville on Fri 22 Feb and BHID on Sat 23 Feb. We need
YOUR support to make a difference to the patients / residents.
Please check the website
www.tdspore.org for details.
Cheers
Soo Fen
Visit on
15 February 2008 - Sunshine
Welfare Action Mission Home (SWAMI Elderlink)
Hi, fellow volunteers,
Regular week days team made our
Chinese Lunar New Year visit
to
SWAMI Home with
mandarin orange and good wishes. My heartfelt thanks to the
following volunteers who brought their therapy dogs to help the
ever cheerful dementia residents welcome in the Year of the Rat.
The dementia residents at the
physiotherapy room did not miss out the CNY mandarin orange as
Melinda with Cleo and Chewy, and Sabine with Stella, were
there to bring CNY wishes to them.
We had a wonderful time interacting
with the dementia residents, and as usual, they were eagerly
taking our therapy dogs for a walking exercise.I had a good time
talking to a cantonese speaking dementia resident. I told her
that Stallion is bilingual i.e. understand cantonese and english
commands. She did not hesitate giving commands to Stallion in
cantonese and was thrill when Stallion obeyed the commands
rightly.... frankly speaking, I was helping Stallion to
undestand her cantonese commands ... secretly I used sign
language.
Our achievements are:
Cognitive / Communication /
Socialisation Therapy
- encourage dementia
residents to communicate and talk about their experience
with dogs.
- asking a dementia
resident to give a sequence of commands in her mother
tongue to our dog, thus, it gave her a sense of
fulfillment when the dog could obey her commands.
Motor / Physical / Sensory
Therapy
- Walking a dog, throwing a
dumbbell, reaching to touch and bending to pet the our
therapy dogs.
Please visit our website:
www.tdspore.org for the details of our next visit.
Gong Xi Fa Cai
Warmest regards
Charlie
Visit on 1 February 2008 - Asian Women's Welfare Association Special School for Children (AWWA) Hi Fellow VolunteersThe pouring rain on Friday didn't stop the regular volunteers from bringing joy and laughter to the chlidren at AWWA. Those whom helped bring cheer to kids were-
Motor / Physical / Sensory Therapy -Children walked and ran with the dogs and handlers(with assisant teachers accompaning) -Some children threw the dumbles and doggie toys for the dogs to retrive.
Cognitive / Communication /
Socialisation Therapy
-We encouraged the children to talk to
the dogs...like saying the dogs names and giving simple commands to
the dogs.
-Stroking and carring the smaller dogs.
Thank you very much dearest volunteers
and also to Girija for the music and the organisation of this
session.
Have a lovely Chinese New Year,
Melinda
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