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Please help with ideas to help my handicap sister?
My sister - who is physically disabled from a brain injury - stays at home for majority of the time during the week while everyone else in the family works. I know she wishes she could be working like the rest of us but her current circumstances just do not allow it. She goes out for group therapies on Tuesdays and Thursdays but on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays she mostly sits at home napping, watching tv, playing solitaire and occasionally coloring. Other than not having full use of her left arm she is capable of doing most activities.
Anyway, can you please help me give her ideas of different types of activities or projects she can do while she is at home. Something that will stimulate her mind but not too challenging.
Thank Yahoo-ers! :-)
4 Answers
- ?Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Have you considered places that offer jobs or activities for the mentally disabled? Most towns have an MHMR facility. Just check with your county and state agencies.
Your sister could go to "work" just as all of you do each day and spend time with her peers. She would be performing a useful task and feeling needed as well as socializing with others. She wouldn't be so bored or lonely. You might even see her much happier. Don't assume that her disability doesn't allow. Give her the opportunity to discover her potential. All human beings have a contribution to make. It may surprise you what she's able to do.
Most of these places offer tasks assembling products that are sold, crafts, etc. They are supervised and trained. Best of all, they have so many people to talk to and can even earn a little money.
Please consider it. She sounds unhappy when your family is away.
God bless!
- StarrberryLv 51 decade ago
more activities she likes to do (ask her if you can), or find someone else that has her disability and let them go over each others houses or meet up with each other some way. I have spina bifida and I love meeting other people with my disability because they know what I am going through and I feel like I can talk about problems no one else would understand.
- 1 decade ago
Maybe an activity would be riddles, word puzzles, maybe Reading of some sort. Some kind of excercises would be good too, Real simple ones. Looking at family photos. Maybe find out what she's interested in.
- 1 decade ago
as silly as it seems maybe some baby/toddler books like a leap frog laptop or something that will read to her. or giver her a "job", set up a desk with paper and a stapler and give her acivities from a younger childs school book, somthing easy for her, or listening to books on tape.
