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OMG I teach this right now... social pragmatics curriculum baby!

I used to work with autistic children and we uses Applied Behavioral Analysis to teach them, and we used task analysis to teach these self help skills. Kind of a rustic form of the ABA used today but at least someone was actually teaching!!!!!

These are similar to foot holds on wheelchairs today for people with severe disabilities. You'll notice that they can be moved to the left and right, independently on one another. Patients with atrophy of the muscles can wind up with hip dysplasia, when the muscles pull the femurs out of the hip sockets. One therapy to prevent this is to strap the feet into the appropriate position. If surgery was done, patients are typically put in spica casts today to maintain proper alignment for the healing process. These were similar, and could be moved further and further apart as physical therapy continued and muscles were loosened. Not a doc, but a parent of a child who has had TWO dysplasia surgeries, and we have a few similar looking contraptions under the desk, etc, at our house, to help maintain the progress surgery started.

This photo is so scary to me. I remember going there as a little girl (my father worked there) and waiting in the car while he ran into the office to get things he forgot, etc. It's really disturbing to see the inside. I am so thankful that it is closed. My dad still refers to his clients there as the brothers and sisters.

Wow, Slender Man sighting! :D

YAY! New wallpaper for my desktop! :)

This is just...gorgeous. Words do not do it any justice. Beauty as this defies the human language altogether.

That's all I have to say lol.

I agree A D Nilsen. It makes me feel so sad for some reason, as if there is so much hope and love that was housed here, and now, it is just forgotten and abandoned and left to die in its own sad rubble. :( Sad picture.

It is funny how Motts' pictures stir up such strong feelings in all of us, isn't it?

I don't know why, but this pic made me smile. I am not even close to "religious" (though I do have faith and I am a Lutheran) but something about this picture just conjured up many Christmas plays I had been in when I was a child and many Christmases where I still believed in Santa Claus...going to church on Easter and waiting for the Easter Bunny as a child. MANY MANY good memories come up! :)

As I said, it made me smile and made me feel so peaceful too.

Yeah, ferdy! That was what I thought too! It seems sort of contridictory, but that light makes it look hellish almost, and it is a place of worship. NICE contrast there! :)

Easy off oven cleaner will take that ugly crap off ! The lye attacks enamel

I concur with the rest. Wallpaper please! The stained glass IS lovely! How high do you think that ceiling goes?

I love the door inside a door look of this. :D What a beautiful shot with the golden light and then the shadowy nooks and crannies. :)

Thanks Motts for another wonderful Gallery to see. Keep up the wonderful work you do.

There are three lamps and a radio in that cell. What I'm wondering were did all of the outlets come from. There is one light on the upper right wall. I pretty sure they did not have outlets in cells way back then. and if they did it would take a three prong socket or two extention cords to operatate all of his stuff. It looks good . But I think something is fishy in Denmark.

Has anyone ever seen the movie Nine by Tim Burton? This looks just like the abandoned church in that movie.