Alvis Speech

Let’s talk about Alzheimer Before we go further, can you list down the steps involved when we want to use the bathroom? First, our brain needs to navigate us towards the location of the bathroom, commands our hand and finger in reaching for the doorknob, turning and pushing it just to open the door!! There are so much more after steps involved afterwards, and what if we forget any one of the steps that we should perform it automatically such as knowing we should open the toilet seat up or locating the toilet in my own house. To me, that’s terrifying and that’s Alzheimer. Nowadays, I believed that people might have labelled the disease as ‘ a common condition in the elderly in which they keep on forgetting things ’. In fact, Alzheimer is a neurological disorder under the umbrella term, Dementia which is ‘ the loss of cognitive functioning—thinking, remembering, and reasoning—and behavioural abilities to such an extent that it interferes with a person's daily life and acti...

AAC Workshop- I know how to make people communicate with u Last year, UKM had invited the AAC experts- The Nika Project team from United state to give us a workshop on AAC. I have met Dan & Mary (SLT) and a technician. They provide us an overview of the AAC development nowadays and teach us how to use some of the apps such as Pictello, Bitsboard and Communication matrix. Frankly say, we seldom apply AAC in the therapy and so, we actually forgotten the significant and prodigious aspect of Communication in the child’s development. So, the first person who propound the idea of applying AAC in speech therapy is a genius!!!!                  For those of you who are lost, AAC is an acronym for   Augmentative and Alternative Communication which is the use of alternative method including assistive technology, gesture (sign language) and other mode to permit the communication of individual that unable to...

Alvis is in UK~~~ ‘London is the place for me London this lovely city You can go to France or America, India, Asia or Australia, But you must come back to London city……’ (Theme song of Paddington, 2014 by D Lime feat Tobago Crusoe) I have been to some western countries such as France, Switzerland, and Australia, but I always long to travel to the United Kingdom. For me, UK is a symbol/ representation of the glamorous European world which we often germane it to “classy”, “elegant” and “Noble”. I imagined people wearing scarf and mac while rambling the glamorous street, enjoying the scrumptious scones and aromatouse scent of coffee diffusing in the air. This is how I want to spend my afternoon~~ In 2018, I got the chance to visit this magical kingdom. I have visited London, Salisbury, Glasgow, and Scotland. Nevertheless, it is a pain in my neck as I did not pay a visit to the Loch Ness. What a shame! All thumbs up for the pork’s burger, fish and chips and the ...