Story - Hartwig Distler

giving up.
That happens with my work as Logopaedia person more frequently that patients give themselves up and become depressive over their
suffered loss of the full language functions and give up themselves at some point. My task is then to give the patient again courage, to regain
her or his remaining abilities. That I did not need at Mr. Distler. He was always motivated.
Probably he had these phases as well, but he never let these phases win and so it always was a joy to accompany Mr. Distler’s linguistic
development. I admired and admire the power and his will to achieve and set these goals. The amount of work was enormous!
To sit daily hours for hours untiringly for the acquisition of new characters, that presupposes a very strong will and it is hard to believe for
someone who does not have this experience.
In the course of the coming months were added more characters until the whole alphabet was compiled.
The degree of difficulty of the tasks became higher and more fastidious thereby. With the learned characters he had to solve syllable mysteries
or the task was to complete text with gaps.
Secret code had to be recognized in the text like e.g. “L” and “J” had to be replaced with “J” and “Q”. Another task was to decipher text from a
long sentence, which did not have any gaps (e.g. iamhartwigdistlerandiamhappytolearnreadingagain (I am Hartwig Distler and I am happy to
learn reading again)). Another task was to find hidden words in a word.
30.05.2008
Therapy 2
Parallel to the exercise program memory exercises were done (not completely as much as was needed, but since he received “Ergotherapie”
and also did use a computer program (Cogpack). To break up a bit we were playing memory or made tasks of word identification like finding
topics or finding subtopics. Mr. Distler e.g. should find all possible animal terms. Thereby I learned then that Mr. Distler had studied biology.
In the course of time abilities to write and read increased very much. At the beginning it was still very difficult for him to read individual words,