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Roll six for reading comprehension.
I’d put it at like 2 or 3 lines of text not counting keywords
Roll for dyslexia...
I read the wall of text. What do I learn?
Roll for intelligence with disadvantage
Oh that's actually a known phenomenon music is a different part of the brain from speech for some reason. Lemme get on the computer with a keyboard I've got a few more fun comments...
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Here's a ballerina getting activated like a fucking sleeper agent to the score from Swan Lake. I'd also like to comment that the way she's in the wheelchair and kinda slumped over to me suggests that the dementia has likely progressed enough that she's having trouble walking (it even affects muscle memory, eventually she may even forget how to swallow) so the fact that music can activate her muscle memory anyway is pretty cool.
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If you ever have a relative with dementia that requires caregivers that are not family or friends (nurses, home health aides, etc) please put together two music playlists for me (or spiritual me 😉):
- one set of chill music I can play if I need them to relax for bedtime and stressful events
- one more upbeat set of songs physical or recreation therapy can play if they need to get them up and out of bed.
If I don't know what songs they like I'll usually try whatever was popular in their demographic when they were 15-25y/o but that's never gonna beat knowing the exact song they danced to at their wedding.
Thnx for reading! <3
That video was incredible. Thank you very much for sharing it with me. I'm going to call my mom.
getting activated like a fucking sleeper agent
LOL, from that description I knew what it would be before I clicked the link. Crazy video.
for older folks like those currently suffering from dementia - try christmas carols or religious music played/sung during the big religious ceremonies.
i spent years thinking what sort of music i could play my great grandma, because what music was even there in the 1930s in rural poland? but the last christmas we had with her we put on some christmas carols, and she came back alive a little. it was magical
Oh for a lot of immigrants I do wind up resorting to folk music, and there's a lot of overlap with hymns and other spiritual music.
You are amazing. I just want you to know that.
What you do makes a huge difference in someone's life and you should be paid way more than you probably are.
Stories like these are why I love the ttrpg community. No question of does she belong in the hobby, just "how can we make her feel comfortable joining the party?". Being cursed to only sing is also a perfect backstory for a bard.
Already knew about this thanks to Piers Anthony :>
It's been a hot minute since my college days, but I do remember learning about singing as one possible avenue of speech therapy in one of my classes. Something about using different parts of the brain I guess.
Yup, it's a different part of the brain. My wife's speech and memory are still worse for wear after she suffered a series of strokes in her left hemisphere several years ago, but she can belt out any tune she's heard in the past fifty years like it was nothing.
It's a key part of the movie The Kings Speech too.
It's just that normally it's difficult to only sing all the time.
I wonder where the delineation between singing and rapping is in this case.
There's a Dutch rapper called Typhoon who can rap but speaks with a stutter
Looked up a song and this interview, seems to check out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SBaTjTH1gw > interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IST12a33X7o > song
Interesting. I guess it's not even having to put a tune to the speech, just trying to work it with rhythmn seems to help (at least Typhoon).
EDIT : I remember an interview where James Earl Jones (among others) have said they took up acting to help with their stuttering.
Everybody's saying that the Scatman stutters but doesn't ever stutter when he sings.
If the Scatman can do it so can you.
Ozzy Osbourne is nigh unintelligible when he speaks, but then sings incredibly well.
ETA: fixed intelligible to unintelligible
Really? From his work in sabbath, he sounds like a crackhead stuck in a well, which is basically what he is.
And I'm a fan of Ozzy era sabbath, precisely because he sounds like a crackhead stuck in a well, wheras Dio is the far better singer. Which took away from the atmosphere of sabbath. That and Iommi for some reason started to write a lot more in line with other people in the 80s.
That's awesome. A certain bat eating musician has a similar condition. Speaks with an impediment but can sing perfectly well, because it uses another part of the brain! Or something. This is a Lemmy comment, not an academic paper.
Has he always had speech issues? I figured it was a side effect of the excessive substance abuse.
A certain bat eating musician
Is this person famous? Should I know who they are?
Ozzy Osbourne
Oh yeah! The guy from Wizard of Oz!
Neat! Others have mentioned similar events in this thread, but no one has yet mentioned ‘wielding a red sword’ which is a book in the incarnations of immortality series by piers Anthony. War himself is afflicted in the same fashion and sings to communicate. Oh and get your mind out of the gutter.
Really good series.
Holy shit! An incarnations reference in the wild! Anthony's best work, imo.
That's lovely!
I think Ozzy is a good example of this, though maybe not as extreme as Silent.
Ed Sheeran, Elvis Presley, Miss Montreal, Noel Gallagher, they all stutter when speaking but not when singing.
As I was reading this, I thought the girlfriend was going to end up playing a Kenku, being able to role play and handle her issue that way