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The Edna Gates Conference on Alzheimer's Care

will take place on November 2-3 in Troy Michigan. The conference title Sparking Creativity in Dementia Care will feature the TTAP Method in two sessions titled Enhancing Creativity and Self-expression through the TTAP Method. Participants will explore how the 3 areas of Neuroscience, Psychology and Learning theories can not only engage those suffering from dementia, but has been proven to enhance cognitive, social and emotional well-being.

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Certification Course in the TTAP Method

The TTAP Method©
Certificate Course
Level 1

Author and Trainer: Dr. Linda Levine-Madori, CTRS, ATR-BC, LCAT
Educational Manual for Completion of
Certificate Training in Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming
15 ceu’s- Continuing Educational Credits through
New York State Park and Recreation Association

Certificate Training Course available on the TTAP Method

The TTAP Method© Training Course
A CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Author and Trainer:
Dr. Linda Levine-Madori,
CTRS, ATR-BC,LCAT

Educational Information for Completion of
Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming
The TTAP Method© Training Course
15 hours ceu’s -plus case study

I will offer starting in September, 2009 a 15 hour- 2 day certificate training program (scheduled on Sat. /Sun-throughout the year) on the TTAP Method in the United States. Participants would attend the 2 day training, recieve a 100 page manual including 3 bodies of knowledge-

the most recent neuroscientific information on the BRAIN,

how we learn through MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES,

and history of PSYCHOLOGICAL APPRAOCHES TO AGING.

The TTAP method offers multiple opportunites for optimizing brain wellness in a structured person centered approach designed for well elderly and those affected with Alzheimer's Disease.

Certification will be provided after completion of 15 hours and a case study utilizing the TTAP Method (completed at your own pace). All participants will receive 15 hours of continueing educational credit (ceu's), this certificate course is available for various heathcare disiplines, including art therapists, recreational therapists, activity personal, directors of activity programs, etc.

If interested in having your staff, or your students attend a course please email me at

Linda@levinemadoriphd.com

Returning To New York From my Travels

Hello from Long Island, New York where I have spent the last month since returing on my travels. I do want to say that I have returned with a full heart. To all of you whom I meet, spoke to, taught or shared a drink over lunch- A BIG THANK-YOU for giving me such a great expereince and I look forward to my return to teach in March and May, 2010!

My Fulbright experience was amazing and it is because of all of you out there in our Global community who embraced my philosophy, teaching and experiences.
I thought I would post a few pictures of where I am now and what I am watching and witnessing.

Back here in New York, the summer weather has been either hot and humid or cool and rainy or rainy and humid. But as I wondered around my town of Easthampton, I can across these images that I wanted to share with all of you who watch this blog. The photograph below is my squrrel, who visits me, in my backyard every day and watches me through my window, as I watch him.

I will be continuing to write on this blog about what I am writing and researching, so please keep visiting and have a great few last weeks of SUMMER fun!

Next post on dendrites and your brain-stay tuned!

Research on the TTAP Method accepted at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease, Vienna, Austria 2009

Preliminary research on the TTAP Method (c) in a pilot study with 25 Spanish speaking individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease utilizing the TTAP Method after a 12 week period in a community day center, showed positive and significant correlations to improved cognitive abilities and increased psychosocial wellbeing in those participating in the 9- step structured multimodal intervention. July 11-14, Vienna, Austria.

HAMK University officiates contract to translate TTAP Method into Finnish for 2010!

Today, Saturday June 21, otherwise known here in Finland as Mid-Summer Night, Dean of Social Sciences, Dr. Merja Saarela seen above with Dr. Levine Madori, announces HAMK Universities collaboration with Health Professions Press to translate the TTAP Method into Finnish by early 2010. Professor Jari Aho will be the translator of the book and will be incorporated into the core curriculum of the Therapeutic Recreation and Creative Arts Program starting in the Spring of 2010.

Students will study and utilize the TTAP method in their clinical research and will be advised by Dr. Levine Madori via the internet blackboard system in Finland. Both Dr.'s Saarela and Levine Madori hope this collaboration increases international research collaborations as well as international studies in the area of the Arts and Recreation Therapy through St. Thomas Aquinas College and HAMK University.