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  • The BridgeLine Presenting at Chamber of Commerce’s Aging In Place Business Network, January 8th

    AiPBN – Living with a Brain Injury During the Pandemic

    The BridgeLine’s Executive Director, Daniela Pretzer, is speaking on Friday, January 8th, 9-10 am at the Chamber of Commerce’s “Aging in Place” Business Network meeting.

    Attend the networking meeting yourself and learn more about The BridgeLine and our services and do a bit of networking. 

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  • Cognitive Skill Training

    Music therapy has been one of our “in-house” therapies since many years, with a lot of success. As reported in recent news, we received funding for music therapy, which will start in the beginning of July with Cathy Bollinger.

    Since several weeks now, we offer also weekly cognitive skill training for the residents of each of our houses. The emphasize is on exercises of memory, attention and recognition. We read stories, play games and soon will also include TBI-specific software for computerized training. Here are a few photos where Eric works with residents of the Ridgewind and Belmont house.

  • Welcome Mary!

    Exciting news for all of us:

    As of the beginning of June, our friend Mary is a member of Building a Bridge.

    Over more than a year, she visited us on Wednesdays to join the art therapy for people suffering from brain injury where she showed her amazing artistic talent. Everyone enjoyed Mary so much that we could hardly wait for her to be a part of our community. After waiting patiently, she could finally join and just moved into the Lexington house to share her life with David, David, and Sarah, and of course the rest of us.

    We welcome you Mary!