RE: [xmca] Update on Tony Whitson

["Deborah Rockstroh" <d_rockstroh@bigpond.com>]

That's a lovely suggestion Mike, a very thoughtful way to keep Tony and his
interests in the forefront of our minds, at the very least; and perhaps such
discussions might trigger something to assist in his recovery. I think David
Kellogg's suggestion about attempting to communicate with him in Chinese has
potential too. Tony has contributed much to these conversations and my
thoughts and prayers are with him and his family at this time also. 

He often directed us to his blog, so perhaps that provides an additional
avenue for understanding and framing his interests?
http://curricublog.wordpress.com/

Deb


Deborah Rockstroh 
Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour  
Preferred email: d_rockstroh@bigpond.com   


-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of mike cole
Sent: Monday, 12 December 2011 3:20 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Update on Tony Whitson

There is a pretty large archive to topics tony has commented on in the past
few years at lchc when I google search. I am not competent to download them
all and order them but if it were possible to do so, we might be able to
take up some topics that are of interest to Tony as a foundation of
communication if he is so inclined.
mike

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote:

>
> On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:00 PM, David H Kirshner wrote:
>
> > "Tony is not able to independently log on to this
> > account yet or read comments with understanding, but he seems to
> > understand spoken language perfectly, so we are reading the emails on
> > this account to Tony as they come in.
>
> This seems a powerful example of the way that compensation, that is,
> treatment and recovery from neurological damage, requires an external,
> social, moment. LSV wrote that "Research into the compensatory functions
> that develop in these disorders also shows that the objectification of a
> disturbed function, that is, bringing it outside and changing it into
> external activity, is one of the basic roads in the compensation of
> disorders".
>
> I hope that we at XMCA might together provide that external activity that
> will help Tony in his recovery.
>
> Martin
>
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