The articles you will find
here deal with Alzheimer's,
stroke recovery,
and stroke memory loss.

and head injuries
with associated memory loss.

We offer many free learning tools
to help you in enjoying
your second lifetime.

Our learning tools
have been developed
over the years
at Accelerated Schools.

MEMORY PICTURES
for closed-head injuries and strokes.

Stroke memory loss can be
improved through the use of
family photo picture slideshows.

Memory pictures are used
to stimulate your mind
to form new pathways
and to retrieve memory.

Memory pictures
are high-speed slide shows
that run on your computer.

Memory pictures are downloaded
from our sites or a digital camera
and then run continuously
on one or more computers.

Run the computer slide show
24 hours a day
in as many rooms as possible.
It is beneficial to run
more than one computer
in a room.

Benefits:

Remember beautiful scenes
of your family.

Remember travel experiences.

Historical pictures
will remind you
of previous learning
in history and science.
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HOW TO USE
MEMORY PICTURE CDS

Visual triggers rebuild memories.

Run CD's 24 hours per day
in your hospital room
or most used common area.

The screens allow you
to review and re-connect
important events in your history.

Benefits:

This can be an effective
way of stimulating the brain.

Non-stop mind re-builder.
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BRING BACK HAPPY TIMES.

Change the balance
of daily happiness
vs. worry and despair.

What can the family do?

You can make
all your old snapshots
into slide shows.

Reviewing your histories
becomes a continuous
opportunity for re-input.

The 24 hour per day computer
is much more likely
to be viewed than stored pictures
in albums or drawers.

The monitors are undemanding
yet convenient.

Picture consistency
fills empty moments
during TV commercials
or a lag in conversation.

Memory pictures are a positive
conversation stimulant
with the injured person
in the hospital.

Intermittent viewing
doesn't replace other therapy.
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We have Memory Picture CDs
you can have for free.

Send 5.00 for postage and handling.

You can make similar CDs
at home or at your library.

You can download single copies
of our pictures
for personal or classroom use.

Look at our lists
of curriculum indexes.
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HOW DOES IT WORK?

The computer automatically
presents one picture every second.

You can set the time
each slide stays on the screen.

(You can choose a longer time.)

We recommend a brisk slide show.
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MEMORY CONCEPTS

Learned material must
be refreshed occasionally
to be remembered.

What do you want to remember?

For how long?

Do you have a purpose or reason
to remember?

You can combat
the rate of forgetting.

You need a fast way
to review the facts.

We need a fast way
to review our memories.

Each repeated effort
to remember events
will likely add additional detail.
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Our life experiences
lay the foundation
for our future memories.

It is easier to recall
words in context.

The mind recovers more details
given an opportunity
to review the context.

Returning to a childhood home
or address
is likely to trigger memories.

It is more likely
to trigger memories
if there are photos
to assist the mind.

Your mind is more likely
to remember pleasant times.

The mind is likely
to avoid unpleasant times.
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POSSIBLE HELP

A second method
used by Accelerated Schools is
Peterson Meaning Phrases.

Peterson Reading
and Meaning Phrase books
have been used in our classrooms
since 1989.

The materials have helped
our young and older students
learn to read and remember
their subjects.

The consistent
successes with non-readers
and in all school subjects
has been spectacular.

Meaning Phrases are repeated
along with a strong auditory model.

The learner "choruses"
with the audio pacer
as they read these
meaningful phrases aloud.
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MULTIPLE STORAGE

MULTIPLE WAYS TO REMEMBER

A consensus of experts feel
that new information is stored in many
if not thousands of cells.

Input gets connected
with a large web of interlocking information.

Meaning phrases put words
in multiple contexts.

Phrases stimulate
many different parts
of the brain
at the same time.

Some connections may re-form.

Others may not.

Perhaps it is not necessary
for ALL connections to be made.

Perhaps just a few connections
will allow the rebuilding process
to get started.
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QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS

Speeding up additional inputs
can speed up the rebuilding process?

Slow therapy may not succeed
If patient feels frustrated
with progress?

Many experts say that
the first 4 to 6 weeks
after a head injury
is the best time to help a recovery.

If this is true
then immediate access
to these high speed recovery materials
is critical.
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MORE COMMENTS

Non-stroke persons say
they quickly connect
some of the pictures
with previous knowledge.

Why not a stroke victim?

How many hours per day?

If the patient is willing
give them all they can stand.

Most therapy only occupies
for a part of the day.

Meaning Phrases
and Memory pictures can tirelessly run
24 hours per day.

www.meaningphrases.com

Preview the free pictures
on our www.picturesfree.org site.

Don't worry about poor quality pictures.

It is the memory we are after.

The pictures may not be your pictures
but the experiences they show
may be very similar to:
1.
Your previous experiences.
2.
Videos you have viewed.
3.
Experiences of your friends.
4.
Situations you have heard about.
5.
Any trigger is better than no trigger.
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TO FAMILY MEMBERS

You can help your injured party.

Watch the memory pictures
with the patient.

Share your comments on any picture.

Your oral comments may
help the recovery.

We understand the Library of Congress
places no restrictions on pictures
you download for personal use.

Download our lists of pictures
to get you started.

Choose your own topics
that may help your family member.

Opportunities are very important.

What else can you do?

Find every photo
of the injured person
and get them made into a slide show.

Get your computer user
friends to help for free.

Find the photos
of all your family and friends
and get them saved on CD.

Transfer your photos to a CD
and have software
make a CD that runs on any computer.

You can download the software
into a computer
and use it immediately.

Another idea.

Put all the email pictures
you have ever received
onto a CD.
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REVIEW OF
ADVANTAGES

Stimulation
Diversion
Fits into idle moments

High speed input
at the speed of light.

Gets from beginning to end
of topics within
short-term memory limits.

This helps comprehension
and retention.

Visual sensations
unlock stored memory.

Audio stimulation
works on another part of the brain.

Peterson Meaning Phrases are
an additional memory trigger.

Memory response to triggers
is fast and decisive.

Brain responds with memories of past
experiences and education.

Brain revives old perspectives.

Creates new perspectives.
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ANOTHER POSSIBILITY

Stimulus for further learning.

New images can be added
to previously stored images.

New slides can be combined
with other slides
to tell a larger story.

More Meaning Phrases
can be downloaded
for auditory input.
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MEMORY PICTURES AND
MEANING PHRASES
ALLOW UNSCHEDULED REHABILITATION

Continuous availability.

Scheduled participation
not required.

Available 24 hours.

Starts and stops at any time.

Fits into odd moments of the day.

24 hour availability.
Intermittent re-education
instantly available.

Choose from many free CD's
and free supplemental materials.

You can download
the indexes of captions
on our Web sites.

Download free supplementary texts
from our freebooks.cc sites.

Have the computer text reader
read the books aloud.

Collections of text materials
have been organized by:
subject
biography
inventions.

Many are in time-line order.
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EARLY SENILITY

Keeping your memories.

QUOTES FROM PARADE MAGAZINE
June 24 2001
by Michael Ryan

Source:

Dr. Rudolph Tanzi a geneticist
at Massachusetts General Hospital.

"The normal brain
has this marvelous ability called
'compensatory regeneration.'"

Cells in the neighborhood
of injured cells
send out new growth
to take up the slack….

People suffering
from minor memory problems
can be helped by cognitive drills
or a few simple practices….

Memory experts are upbeat
about what they can do
for patients today…

There has never been
a better time
to have a memory problem."

MMSE test. 10 minutes.

Dr. Gayatri Devi
a New York memory specialist.
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TELEVISION COMMENTARY

You can use Memory Pictures
during TV or music.

Place the monitor beside your TV.

The idling mind can easily follow
the TV ball game or story
and watch computer monitors
intermittently.

TV is slow and frequently interrupted
by commercials.

Viewers are used
to poor continuity.

We easily remember
episode to episode

Viewers are very familiar
with the limited number
of plots (7) available.

It is easy for the mind
to pick up the story
where interrupted.

It is easy for the mind
to jump into the middle
of a story
and choose the possible beginnings.

TV is very slow developing its stories.

Why?

The massive number
of commercial interruptions.

The repetitive plots of TV.

The repetitive pictures used
to condition your mind.
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WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?

It is hard to motivate
injured patients.

Frustration with slow recovery progress
can quickly deteriorate
into hopelessness and refusals
to participate in therapy.

The refusals to try
may become more important
than the injury.

Giving the patient more successes
and diverting to positive memories
may assist any therapy.

Rehabilitation is time critical.

All too soon,
refusals can halt
or hinder rehabilitation.
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DISCLAIMER

This site discusses programs
that may be helpful for persons
with closed head injuries or stroke.

They have been very helpful
for non-brain-injured students.

The materials and procedures
are very successful
with gifted and remedial students.

Some may have had
undiagnosed closed-head injuries.

Both programs can be used
with any other therapies.

For more articles
about our past usage see:
Reading Improvement
Meaning phrases
Memory pictures
Search 555
Study skills 555
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This Web site is not finished.
It is being rushed to the Internet
to help desperate situations.

The site will be enlarged
in the years to come.

There are 1000's of articles
about the brain that can be downloaded
from the Internet.

Many are discouraging.

To find them search
for closed head injury,
stroke, etc.
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Note:
Over 100,000 grouped photographs
are available at picturesfree.org.
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RESEARCH QUESTIONS

Click here to take our survey.

To readers.

We have free materials
and free computers
for stimulating the mind.

We are looking
for any reasons
why the materials
won't help.

Here are some
of the questions
we asked ourselves.

Would you help us
by considering
these questions?

Would you send us
your questions?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

Can we:
Delay memory loss?

Delay Alzheimer's onset
with slide show
stimulation?

Improve daily life style
with 24 hour photos?

Improve vocabulary
with 24 hour
immersion phrase lists
on CD or DVD?

Please send me
your answer
to any of
the following questions.

You can copy the file.

After each question insert
"Y" or "N" or "Other".

Email the file to
info@acceleratedschools.org.

You can call Carl Peterson
at 10 am any day.
1-800-SCHOOL3

Anything you want to say
can be helpful.

Tell us if you know
of any other
procedures
that have good results.
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Questions

CAN MEMORY TRIGGERS
HELP ALZHEIMERS PATIENTS
ENJOY THEIR LIVES

IS MUSIC
A MEMORY TRIGGER?

Facts:
A strong song leader
helps any audience
sing strongly.

Familiar songs
are easier to sing.

Repetitive experiences
create memory.

Many have observed
Alzheimer's patients
singing in a group.
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TRIGGER QUESTIONS

Have Alzheimers patients
lost the information?

Have they scrambled the information?

Are they responding to triggers
and filling in the additional parts of sounds?

How frequent are the triggers?

Are they getting one trigger
per verse
per phrase
per word
per letter?

Is performance the same
on less familiar verses?

When does their singing performance vary?

Is this a mimic performance?

Is this a memory performance?
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WILL CONTINUOUS
24 HOUR SLIDE SHOW
TRIGGERS HELP?

Many patients exhibit
the inability to remember what
they participated in:
a few seconds ago?
a few minutes ago?
a few hours ago?

Was what they forgot
important?

Was it meaningful to them?

Do they forget:
to eat?
to go to the bathroom?
to sleep?
to walk?
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WILL PLAYING 24 HOUR
MEANING PHRASES BE
GOOD TRIGGERS?

Can hearing multiple phrases
trigger their memories?

Are meaning clusters remembered
better than isolated phrases?

Once a memory is triggered
how long can the patient
recall?
participate?

Are they reading the words?

Are they just mimicking the sounds?

When does mimicry leave off
and memory performance
rebuild or stabilize?
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COMPARISON OF
PETERSON MEANING CLUSTERS

ALPHA MEANING PHRASES

There are two types of lessons
that serve different purposes.

Alpha shows similarities
and are a fast way
to make comparisons.

Meaning clusters being longer
allow a longer context for meaning.
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MORE RESEARCH QUESTIONS?

Would it be better
to emphasise prefixes
over roots and suffixes?

Does our mind
respond in milliseconds
to the prefix
then quickly sort
to find the proper roots and suffixes?

Once we have the first words
of a sentence we choose
which way to end the sentence.

Do we make the same kind of choices
with phrases and word endings?

I will appreciate your viewpoints
and other questions
that you have asked and answered.

Carl Peterson
Meaning phrases
Alzheimers 555
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