forward Magazine

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In the August 2010 Issue of Forward...

The August edition of forward magazine is focusing on Family Matters and addresses the impact of a spinal cord injury on family members.  A number of professionals have written about the importance of family support in recovery and the alternative ways of securing the necessary support if you don’t have family around you.  Contributors include Paul Kennedy from Stoke Mandeville and Helen Smith from RNOH, Stanmore.  Lucy Bolton writes about the SIA Family Counselling service operating at Stoke Mandeville and SIA announces an extension of this service which offers a telephone counselling session or face-to face counselling for those who can travel to Milton Keynes.

Personal accounts from relatives and injured people about their experiences of coming to terms with the impact of SCI in their lives are both honest and moving.

We have a feature article, written by Agnes Fletcher, on the eventual success of Agnes and her husband, SIA member Adam Thomas, in becoming parents.

And if you are interested in travel, the report from Piers Stone on his driving trip through Thailand will make you want to pack up and head for the airport right away.  Barry Brooks report on his visit to the Manfred Sauer Foundation in Germany will also tempt anyone who feels the need of a nurturing and holistic holiday closer to home.

This issue is also packed with news about SIA’s work with spinal cord injured people.  The three Community Peer Support Officers working with SCI people in non-SCI specialist hospitals bring us up-to-date with the progress of their work, including an interesting case history.  There is also a report on the success of the DDA Master Class and the Independent Living Master Class and dates for forthcoming courses if you would like to attend either.

Along with the usual Readers’ letters, questions and answers from our experts, book reviews and news of new equipment on the market, this is a really bumper issue and a good summer holiday read.

The deadline for contributions to the October edition is 1st September 2010.

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