[...] I suggested he had a go at the snake,
and after demurring for a few moments, he agreed to have a try. So I talked
him through one "row" of the snake as it very gradually dawned on me that I
had detached him from his group of Adult Special Needs people who were there
with their teacher. We both persevered to the end of the row - and I reckon
we both achieved something!
One can only hope that the *teacher* also noticed. And that she/he was enough "on the ball" to draw conclusions from the "little exercise". Like: lacemaking might be something worth considering when thinking of next year's programs..
The therapeutic value of handicrafts has long been recognised (when I first started learning needleoint, the shop owner said that, hour per hour, needlecraft was about 1/100 the cost of a psychiatrist <g>). "Pillow or Bobbin Lace; Technique, Patterns, History" -- a book written by Mincoff and Marriage in 1907 -- mentions teaching BL to patients in a hospital as part of "return to life" therapy...
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Tamara P Duvall
Lexington, Virginia, USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
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